There it was–right on the website of Hotels.com, which is why we chose it—Airport Guest House. There was no night staff--we needed a code to get in to this guest house (more like an Airbnb) which was 178 NIS ($50.00 USD) each way by cab, so it is not exactly in the neighborhood of the airport, despite its name.
However, the code information on Hotels.com was in a link, not too overt, and we seniors who are not as adept as some younger people with the Internet, missed it.
Posted on the door of this guest house, we saw, once we had arrived, was a phone number to call for help.
We did call – over and over – but no one answered.
Fortunately, the cab driver had yet not left us, and delivered us back to the airport (which took the remainder of our NIS) where we sat up and tried to doze for five hours. (There are NO other hotels near the airport as there are in the U.S. and Europe).
Afterward, while the Airport Guest House would not return our money, Hotels.com gave us credit toward a future booking. (The cost of the round-trip cab fare was on us, of course.)
Our suggestion to Hotels.com was that the owners of the Airport Guest House prominently embed the information that a code is required for entry into this establishment and NOT “bury” it in a link that some might miss. And answer the phone, or at least have an answering message alerting travelers, at all hours, for late arrivals.
We found out, after the fact, a code had been emailed, but missed it while touring.