Something we never knew …. Iberia has a secret Arrivals Lounge in Madrid Terminal 4

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• darrenf says:

  11 Mar11 March 05:06

  Sorry to nitpick but it’s “Sala de Llegadas” (two Ls, not one, and visible in the first pic). “Legadas” means legacies, not arrivals!

  • Rob says:

    11 Mar11 March 08:25

    Thanks, will fix

    • LukeM says:

      11 Mar11 March 09:22

      And under your ‘Who can access the Iberia arrivals lounge?’ heading too.

• Tony says:

  11 Mar11 March 05:53

  “As well as the ‘Sala de Legadas’ arrivals lounge, there are 22 hotel rooms which can be booked for 3 – 6 hours. These are run by a private company, not Iberia, and can be booked here.”

  Noe also that proper overnight stays can be booked. It’s not cheap but given the lengthy bus rides involved to other MAD airport hotels, this is quite an innovation.

• BJ says:

  11 Mar11 March 06:50

  OT: at least 4 new amex offers appearing this morning – virgin trains, europcar, journey and urban massage.

• Steve S says:

  11 Mar11 March 07:30

  “ It is quite clear that many people don’t know it exists, although with just nine tables this is probably sensible.”

  Oh no!!

• Lumma says:

  11 Mar11 March 08:39

  Strange, I used this when I flew Iberia business and I thought I’d read about it on HFP. They definitely mentioned it on the flight though.

  I had a long wait until my flight back to London and was quite happy to sit there for a few hours (again I was the only person in there) but the receptionist came up to me to remind me that’s it only an arrivals lounge and I can’t sit there all day.

  I think you have to ask them to let you use the toilet as they’re the shower rooms for the hotel rooms too.

  If I was connecting same day on either Iberia or BA I’d probably just use the normal Iberia lounges and not bother with this.

• Julian says:

  11 Mar11 March 09:17

  Something tells me this lounge is now about to become significantly busier following its promotion to this frequent flyer group…………..

  • TGLoyalty says:

    11 Mar11 March 09:19

    I knew about it from other blogs but doesn’t make it any easier to find. I gave up on my last trip and headed straight out to the city

    • Shoestring says:

      11 Mar11 March 09:43

      Yep me too, I can’t see it suddenly getting popular though – everybody already had breakfast etc on the plane and if the showers aren’t free of charge, it’s a bit of a waste of time.

      • Julian says:

        11 Mar11 March 09:48

        Perhaps only useful then for those who suddenly feel thirsty or hungry again once they have collected their bags.,,,,,

      • EvilDoctorK says:

        11 Mar11 March 15:21

        I did try to use it once before a few years ago for a shower and there was some pretty lengthy registration procedure ( involving a passport iirc ) only to be told at the end of it there was a wait of several hours for a shower ( no idea why as the place looked deserted )

    • Bagoly says:

      11 Mar11 March 19:57

      I booked a relevant flight, googled in case there was one, found on other blog, and used it.
      Apparently it was set up in 2015.
      I seemed to be the only guest at the time.
      And yes registration did take some time.

• Mark says:

  11 Mar11 March 09:53

  It’s worth remembering that although booking outbound LH flights via Madrid incurs UK long haul APD, the same is not true for inbound flights.

  When I experimented with the taxes and fees pricing, booking London to Madrid, Madrid to destination and destination to London via Madrid as three separate bookings didn’t make it more expensive than London to Madrid return and Madrid to destination return.

  That has the advantage of making the connection in the return trip a bit easier, with IB responsible for dealing with any missed connection due to delay in the first leg.

  If you do this you won’t be able to use the Sala de Llegadas and would have to use the departure lounge in T4 instead, but given the size I guess that’s deliberate……

  • Lumma says:

    11 Mar11 March 10:09

    Surely there’s nothing stopping you clearing passport control and using this lounge if you want to?

    • Doug M says:

      11 Mar11 March 10:11

      When they scan your LH to Madrid boarding pass it may show you’re changing in Madrid, not completed the journey.

• Doug M says:

  11 Mar11 March 10:09

  OT: Curve on Android. When you get messages from Curve, is there an in app option to see them? The alert doesn’t always show the full message, also can be accidentally cleared. There doesn’t seem to then be an option in the app to see what the message was.

  • Lumma says:

    11 Mar11 March 10:10

    I thought you also got an email from curve each time which you can just reply to if you need anything else?

    • Doug M says:

      11 Mar11 March 10:15

      No for me. They have my email as I can see it in the details on the app. But within the app there’s really nothing maintainable other than the card that’s linked.

      • Peter 64K says:

        11 Mar11 March 10:49

        Same problem for me. I have to clear other alerts/push notifications I have on my phone then it allows me to see the full curve message.

  • the_real_a says:

    12 Mar12 March 02:32

    I reported this bug several times during beta and just gave up. The avacado munching millenials at curve clearly don’t use android as a daily device…

  • Alan says:

    12 Mar12 March 08:15

    They’ve recognised the issue and it’s on the list to be fixed (no timescale though)

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