Save money on No1 airport lounges and get double Virgin Flying Club miles too!

If you don’t have airport lounge access via your flight ticket, your elite status, via a Priority Pass card from American Express Platinum or via a Lounge Club card from American Express Gold, your best fall-back option is usually No 1 Lounges.

No 1 Lounges is the largest network of premium independent lounges in the UK.  We have reviewed all of them in the past (click for the review):

• No 1 Lounge Heathrow Terminal 3
• No 1 Lounge Gatwick North
• My Lounge Gatwick North and #2
• No 1 Clubrooms Gatwick North
• No 1 Lounge Gatwick South (photo below)
• No 1 Clubrooms Gatwick South
• No 1 Lounge Birmingham
• No 1 Lounge Edinburgh

All lounges include free hot food, free drinks (some premium food and drinks carries an extra charge), free newspapers and magazines and free wi-fi.

No 1 Lounges has a generous tie-up with Virgin Flying Club.  This allows you to buy access to their lounges at a discount and earn miles Virgin Flying Club at the same time.

For a limited period, Virgin has doubled the miles you earn from No 1!

The Virgin Atlantic offer

Virgin Flying Club offers a discount and a chunk of miles when you book.  You also receive fast-track security at Birmingham, Edinburgh and Gatwick.

There is a tiered earning structure, per booking:

• 800 miles at Clubrooms
• 700 miles at No 1 Lounges
• 400 miles at My Lounge

This is DOUBLE the usual number of miles.  This deal is only available if you book before 30th September and visit by 31st December.

The special Virgin Flying Club pricing is:

• £25 – No 1 Lounges
• £12 – My Lounge
• £35 – Clubrooms

You can only book the Virgin deal via this page of the No 1 website.

Because the miles are awarded per booking, you should make a separate reservation for each person in your group.

If you collect Virgin Flying Club miles, this is a pretty attractive deal.  Your net cost – assuming you value the miles at 1p – is just £8 for My Lounge and £18 for No 1 Lounges.  Given the cost of food and drink at Gatwick North it is difficult to see how you’d struggle to get £8 of value from your My Lounge booking.

You also get Fast Track Security access at Gatwick, Birmingham and Edinburgh.  Gatwick charges £5 for this if you book is separately, making this deal look even better.

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How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (January 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Virgin Points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

You can choose from two official Virgin Atlantic credit cards (apply here, one has a bonus of 15,000 Points):

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points. 

(Want to earn more Virgin Points?  Click here to see our recent articles on Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club and click here for our home page with the latest news on earning and spending other airline and hotel points.)