New York Stories #1 – The outdoor terrace at Hamburg Airport’s Senator lounge

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• sandgrounder says:

  15 Jul15 July 06:42

  Looks a bit more interesting than the Calpe Lounge terrace at GIB- great view of the rock, but not much in the way of aircraft!

• James Ward says:

  15 Jul15 July 06:53

  AMS has a huge terrace. So big, in fact, that there’s room for an old Fokker 100 that’s been converted to a mini museum. Amusingly Leeds is represented by a picture of Leeds Castle – which is in Kent!

  • Frenske says:

    15 Jul15 July 08:11

    It took me a couple of years to figure out that too. Granted I was livining in Scotland in the first five years in the UK, too far to considering visiting either Leeds.

    • Frenske says:

      15 Jul15 July 08:12

      By the way last time Schiphol terrrace was closed for renovations.

      • Rob says:

        15 Jul15 July 10:56

        I am currently in the Senator lounge on Pier A in Frankfurt. No terrace here!

      • Edd M says:

        15 Jul15 July 15:16

        I was there on the Terrace last Sunday, it’s very popular, plane spotting is clearly a big deal in AMS!

        Will go back up to check out that Leeds Castle error though… (to be fair to them it’s a pretty common tourist confusion…!)

• DV says:

  15 Jul15 July 06:54

  Basel also has a very pleasant outdoor terrace overlooking the runway.

• MDM says:

  15 Jul15 July 06:58

  The Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse has a small outside terrace next to the Grey Goose Bar, but the views across the airport are not as impressive as the views in the photos above.

  • Chris says:

    15 Jul15 July 07:34

    Yeah but it was made up like a small tennis court last week for Wimbledon. Astoturf “court” complete with nets. No sign of the racquets and balls though

• Jordan D says:

  16 Jul16 July 11:05

  There is an outdoor terrace in the Pier E lounge at Zurich – which when take-offs are happening provides an excellent view of the A380 lumbering into the air.

  • Chris Sutter says:

    16 Jul16 July 11:30

    Indeed, I really love that terrace!

    When flying BA, you can use the E lounge even if your flight leaves from D (as most seem to do these days, I don’t mind as it saves me the train ride). The oneworld lounge in D is better than the previous dnata lounge, but miserably dark.

• squills says:

  17 Jul17 July 19:39

  Well I’ve lost the bit where we discussed Halifax Clarity vs Amex value when using the card abroad.

  Amex really isn’t that bad in my situation. New Gold Card, first year so I get 2 Avios per £1 spent abroad. = 2% if we call 1 avios = 1p. Already not too far from the 3% fee.

  But I also need to rinse through the opening spend to get the 20,000 bonus.

  The currency rates are close enough not to matter and we usually pre-fix a couple of K each year into the foreign bank at a fortuitous time in the cycle, so don’t rely on the cards alone.

  I’ll keep on using it this summer then think about Clarity after that.

• helloyoufool says:

  18 Jul18 July 15:48

  The small food court in Terminal 1 (check-in side) at Hamburg also has a balcony that can be used by the general public.

  It’s right next to the McDonald’s and makes a nice sun trap & nice to watch the planes manoeuvre. It was worth leaving air-side to head out there when my Easyjet flight was delayed.

  They was no restriction on napkins & papers on there but might be a little further away from the tarmac than the lounge provides.

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