Bits: Priority Pass unveils lounges of the year, new easyJet routes from Southend

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• Jason k says:

  13 Dec13 December 05:50

  Must of been a pretty low bar in Europe if Tallinn took the prize. Lovely little city, but didn’t think much of the lounge or food.

  • Andrew says:

    13 Dec13 December 05:57

    +1. I was in the Tallinn lounge on Sunday Andes agree. It did seem quite cozy (with the fireplace etc) and the seating was comfortable. It wasn’t that busy. However the food was mediocre at best.

    • the real harry1 says:

      13 Dec13 December 06:34

      it could be an ironic FT joke, given famous TP runs there etc – plus they all seem to like Tallinn itself so might have voted with those things in mind

      • Steve says:

        13 Dec13 December 08:19

        Or it could be rigged. It doesn’t take much to rustle up a campaign of positive reviews on the internet.

  • John says:

    13 Dec13 December 06:28

    Same with MLA, was good enough but hardly 2nd best in all of Europe

• Rob Brown says:

  13 Dec13 December 06:34

  No! I always use Head For Points when I need to open a browser to sign up for wifi (as you normally need to point the browser somewhere and on my phone any https site gets blocked as “someone is attempting to redirect you” I will need to find a new unsecure site to direct to now.

  • Rob says:

    13 Dec13 December 07:29

    Google made us do it. We got a search penalty for not having it.

    • AndyGWP says:

      13 Dec13 December 15:45

      Thanks – I had been wondering what the motivations for doing it were! 🙂

  • Memesweeper says:

    13 Dec13 December 08:15

    Set ‘neverssl.com’ as your default page for your browser. This can be interrupted by WiFi log in pages (called captive portals). Then visit HfP as normal!

  • Mark F says:

    15 Dec15 December 00:52

    The site you want then is http://example.com.
    It’s reserved by IANA for documentation purposes and should always be accessible as a plain, non-redirecting http service. (More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com)

• Doug Fenner says:

  13 Dec13 December 07:33

  OT (a bit).

  No status. Have Dragonpass through the Groupon offer that was highlighted here. Travelling to BCN from T3. Which of the lounges is the preferred option out of the No 1 or Club Aspire?

  Ta.

  • the real harry1 says:

    13 Dec13 December 08:36

    they’re both pretty good & have been reviewed here

    I slightly prefer No1 for its space/ windows/ seems bigger/ a few rooms/ kids cinema, always been calm & quiet – gets crowded & they might turn you away without a pre-booking (online), used to have 1 desktop PC which my son likes using

    Club Aspire has bigger free food range, seats 120 & unlikely to turn you away except at very busiest times, bit cramped & dark though has some interesting bits such as the snooze couches and quiet pods

    neither is self-pour booze

  • Gavin says:

    13 Dec13 December 09:42

    Great barstaff at No 1. Quick, friendly and gave us a few bottles of water for the flight. Food a bit patchy.

    • the real harry1 says:

      13 Dec13 December 20:23

      they gave us a few cans of coke for the flight as well last time!

      not sure they knew about it, though lol

• BrianN says:

  13 Dec13 December 08:34

  Kingston is a nice lounge. Comfortable and good selection of food/drink. Not restaurant dining but good patties etc for a couple of hours.

  They should have a category for worst lounge. The Port Lounge in Goa domestic departures in horrendous. Priority Pass should be embarrassed having that on its list.

  • Paul says:

    13 Dec13 December 09:21

    I will add domestic lounge at Lima airport to this list

• Wivus says:

  13 Dec13 December 10:10

  Was in Goa airport a couple of weeks back. That is not a lounge, it is a downmarket restaurant bar with a rope separating seats. Bought a coffee and sat in the departures. More room and quieter 🙂

• Mark Bates says:

  13 Dec13 December 13:20

  We used the Malta one last year and it is very poor, at least considering the dining options which are mainly limited to snacks (certainly nothing not or to order) I am guessing it may get high marks because the unlimited help-yourself-spirits, however that obvs isn’t exactly unique.

  • Chris says:

    14 Dec14 December 01:24

    I love the Malta lounge. Been there 4 times now and each time had hot food platters, posh-looking sandwiches, cakes and several beers to choose from. And an outdoors terrace – perfect place to have that beer.

  • Crafty says:

    14 Dec14 December 08:57

    Are you serious? The Malta lounge is one of the best there is.

• CV3V says:

  13 Dec13 December 13:42

  Bits: for the regional MAS flights using the A350 its reported that those who booked into the first cabin are being booted back into Business class, if anyone booked one of those flights worth a check (hat tip to Loyaltylobby…to Seb! )

• Phatbear says:

  13 Dec13 December 14:21

  Regarding the southend news.

  Flybe already fly to prague and dubrovnik from SEN and they have decent load levels however im not sure there are enough pax to sustain both services.

  As an aside im currently in prague and fly from SEN with flybe and their service, for me, a darn sight better than easyjet. Oh and with flybe you get to collect avios points too!

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