Review: the Causeway Lounge at Belfast International Airport

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• Frankie says:

  21 Feb21 February 07:06

  Seems good value even at the three free drinks limit if you add in some food, coffee, soft drinks, views and peace and quiet. A glass of wine is 6 or 7 pounds in the public bars.

• MoNkEyMaN says:

  21 Feb21 February 08:54

  The musical coffee machine is a bizarre experience.

  • CV3V says:

    21 Feb21 February 12:16

    The Emirates lounge(s) in Dubai has a similar machine (playing classical music), its even more bizarre at 2 am in the morning in a huge empty lounge. Needs a mute button.

• Steven says:

  21 Feb21 February 09:21

  I really like this lounge; the terminal itself is horrific and you can get a bit of peace and quiet here. Never had a problem getting a seat and they have decent food. Tend not to drink that much in the lounges so the alcohol restrictions don’t really bother me that much.

• Ian says:

  21 Feb21 February 12:16

  Lest your principal readership be duped, the name of this BFS airport is wholly misleading. It is nowhere near Belfast. It is 19 miles away. And it’s grim.

  Whereas BHD (Belfast City) is “in” Belfast.

• JOHN MUNN says:

  21 Feb21 February 16:23

  Now the United Belfast to Newark flight is no longer operating, I can’t think of any business class travel from BFS as it’s all Easyjet, Ryanair, Jet2 and charter flights.
  With that in mind, I wonder if the the lounge can sustain itself on the people paying to use it?
  I used it a couple of years ago to use my free Amex Gold Lounge Club passes (before the recent refurb, admittedly) and it was grim. There was no food during the day and the clerk encouraged us to get food in the terminal and bring it back to eat! There were only 2 of us in the lounge. We didn’t stay more than 10 minutes. I suppose it is maybe worth it if you want to get a drink before a flight (but £17 could get you 3 Burger King meals in the terminal).

  • Brendan says:

    22 Feb22 February 13:26

    Its really nice since the refurb

• Memesweeper says:

  21 Feb21 February 17:19

  This airport is in fierce competition with Stansted for the UK’s worst airport. This lounge is a great relief from the dreadful airport, and, since the refurb, is good value even if you’re paying cash IMO. No-one policed me to three spirits on my last visit, YMMV.

  Confusingly BFS refers to itself as BIA, even though the BIA airport is in Corsica.

• Ian says:

  21 Feb21 February 17:42

  You guess incorrectly Mr Tangey. We both appreciate that the airport (known as Aldergrove) was originally a military base. But lets not bore the HfP readership.

  Lets just agree that Belfast International Airport is a misnomer.

  PS – Gatwick is in London, as is Heathrow, whereas I can assure HfP readers that BFS is NOT in Belfast.

  • zsalya says:

    21 Feb21 February 18:09

    Heathrow is inside the M25, so we can call that London.
    Gatwick is not – it’s near London.

    • Alex W says:

      21 Feb21 February 18:17

      What about “London” Luton airport – 34 miles from London according to Google maps!

      • Genghis says:

        21 Feb21 February 18:51

        Or London Oxford Airport?

      • Lady London says:

        21 Feb21 February 23:22

        That’s pushing it. “London” Luton was always a joke. Especially when the railway line that was sold as going to Luton airport, stopped and everyone from the train had to wait for a bus, then haul their luggage onto the bus and mostly stand up and be thrown round corners all the way to the terminal….London Luton airport, indeed 🙂

  • AC says:

    21 Feb21 February 20:01

    Gatwick is in London? Hahaha

    • the real harry1 says:

      21 Feb21 February 20:17

      I see Gatwick as London plus a couple of minutes, nothing much extra in journey time to worry about

      there are plenty of cities in the world where LHR, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted would obviously be seen as ‘capital city’ airports – 30-40 miles in any direction is irrelevant if the connections are good

      Boris was probably correct all along – Boris Island or an improvement on the idea (5 miles closer?) could have been a new ‘New HK Airport’ – built from scratch so shiny, perfect, new, 40 mins from central London, annoying very few people with noise & all the runways you need for the next 50 years – plus frees up LHR for more divers flying uses :mrgreen

      • Joe says:

        21 Feb21 February 21:34

        Ok ok! At least I’ve clearly piqued the interest in this previously quiet article!

        I will add however, the public transport links to this airport, 19 miles from Belfast, are farcical.
        (only option being a draughty ‘bus’ which takes almost an hour)

      • Brendan says:

        22 Feb22 February 13:34

        BHD transport links aren’t ‘much poorer’. The bus from the Europa (same place as bus to BFS) goes every 20 mins at peak times and takes less than 15 mins. Anyway, for the practically the same price as a single bus ticket to BFS (£7.50), you can get a taxi to BHD from anywhere around the city centre that takes 5-10 minutes.

        • IanBeale says:

          25 Feb25 February 20:01

          As long as you’re first off the plane with no luggage checked. Otherwise a wind-swept taxi queue awaits.

• Joe says:

  21 Feb21 February 21:35

  Ian “My name is Joe”

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