No1 Lounges opens its new Birmingham Airport Clubrooms lounge
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No1 Lounges has opened its 2nd lounge at Birmingham International, by Gate 54. As we exclusively revealed back in June, the group has opened a second site to cope with demand.
Aspire has also just opened a second lounge in Birmingham which we reviewed here.
The new No1 facility is part of the Clubrooms brand. This means that it is NOT available on Priority Pass, Lounge Club etc.
It is designed as a more exclusive space, designed in the style of a private club, with table service and a la carte dining. The lounge offers runway views. The only picture on the website is the one above, which doesn’t show much.
It will be interesting to see if Emirates decides to close its own lounge and use this instead, given its location near the Emirates gate. It must be expensive to run its own lounge for just two flights per day, seven hours apart.
You can book online here. It costs £35 per person booked in advance (£40 on the door) with inclusive champagne packages costing extra. Children under 12 are banned and there is a dress code.
How to get FREE airport lounge access via UK credit cards (April 2024)
Here are the four options to get FREE airport lounge access via a UK credit card.
The Platinum Card from American Express comes with two free Priority Pass cards, one for you and one for a supplementary cardholder. Each card admits two so a family of four gets in free. You get access to all 1,300 lounges in the Priority Pass network – search it here.
You also get access to Eurostar, Lufthansa and Delta Air Lines lounges. Our American Express Platinum review is here. You can apply here.
The Platinum Card from American Express
40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review
If you have a small business, consider American Express Business Platinum instead.
American Express Business Platinum
40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review
American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for the first year. It comes with a Priority Pass card loaded with four free visits to any Priority Pass lounge – see the list here.
Additional lounge visits are charged at £24. You get four more free visits for every year you keep the card.
There is no annual fee for Amex Gold in Year 1 and you get a 20,000 points sign-up bonus. Full details are in our American Express Preferred Rewards Gold review here.
American Express Preferred Rewards Gold
Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review
HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard gets you get a free Priority Pass card, allowing you access to the Priority Pass network. Guests are charged at £24 although it may be cheaper to pay £60 for a supplementary credit card for your partner.
The card has a fee of £195 and there are strict financial requirements to become a HSBC Premier customer. Full details are in my HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard review.
HSBC Premier World Elite Mastercard
A huge bonus, but only available to HSBC Premier clients Read our full review
PS. You can find all of HfP’s UK airport lounge reviews – and we’ve been to most of them – indexed here.
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