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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 No1 Lounges.

No1 Lounges is the largest network of premium independent lounges in the UK.  We have reviewed most of them (click for the review):

No1 Lounges

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.

moneysavingexpert.com is running an exclusive discount code for No1 Lounges.  Here is the pricing, which will vary based on the date and time you want to visit:

  • Birmingham – £16.80 to £22.40 (was £28) PLUS free fast-track security
  • Birmingham Clubrooms – £20.40 to £27.20 (was £34) PLUS free fast-track security
  • Edinburgh – £16.80 to £22.40 (was £28) PLUS free fast-track security
  • Gatwick North and South – £14.40 to £30.40 (was £24 – 40) depending on lounge PLUS free fast-track security.  It is MyLounge which gets as low as £14.40.
  • Heathrow Terminal 3 – £20.40 to £27.20 (was £34)
  • Heathrow Terminal 4 – £27 to £32 (was £40)

This offer must be booked by midnight on 14th April, for lounge visits up to 30th June.

You must book via this special page of the No1 site and use code MSESPRING at check-out.

Getting airport lounge access for free from a credit card

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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Comments (129)

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  • Oli says:
    5 Apr5 April 12:41

    OT – Amex offer £10 off on £40 Virgin Train purchase. Offer says only for purchases of Virgin train services. Is this true in people’s experience, i’m not sure how Amex’d know what has been purchased on Virgin website?

    • Matt says:
      5 Apr5 April 12:44

      The trains won’t be cheaper on other sites so you’ve got nothing to lose from giving it a go?

    • Tom W says:
      5 Apr5 April 12:56

      Virgin have a specific virgin trains website so you’d only get it back on that. I had a 33% Amex offer last week which paid out yesterday.

    • paulm says:
      5 Apr5 April 14:39

      It’s been mentioned in the past that non virgin journeys go through as ‘the train line’ so they do differentiate.

    • Froggee says:
      5 Apr5 April 15:04

      I booked twice for Scotrail service on plat and supp plant and have already had the £10 credit for both.

    • Andrew says:
      5 Apr5 April 18:43

      I’ve had the credit for 2 x £20.20 tickets to London (not on Virgin Trains) booked as one transaction via the Virgin Trains site on laptop – transaction came up as “Virgin Trains Desktop” and £10 credit followed a day later.

    • Mr Dee says:
      5 Apr5 April 21:12

      It works if you spend on the virgin trains site regardless

    • Alan says:
      5 Apr5 April 22:47

      Worked for me regardless.

  • Tom W says:
    5 Apr5 April 12:56

    Virgin have a specific virgin trains website so you’d only get it back on that. I had a 33% Amex offer last week which paid out yesterday.

    • Sundar says:
      5 Apr5 April 13:29

      In the past, this has paid for buying tickets on virgintrains website. The actual trains need not be run by Virgin. Sometimes, these work on cumulative purchases as well(unless clearly mentioned it is on 1 transaction).

  • Mike says:
    5 Apr5 April 13:44

    This is all well and good, however, as a fee paying Amex Platinum cardholder, I am getting increasingly frustrated when I am unable to access lounges, because at busy times they are full with people paying to get access, and No 1 lounges, would rather get paid from this income direct than Priority Pass. This is devaluing the Priority Pass benefit within the Amex Platinum membership fee

    • illuminatus says:
      5 Apr5 April 13:49

      +1

    • Anna says:
      5 Apr5 April 13:49

      +1 and I gave Amex that reason when cancelling!

      • Lady London says:
        5 Apr5 April 15:11

        +1 maybe anyone cancelling could mention.

        However in some airports where they offer it I would sooner use the food credit option and i sée that as a positive dévelopment. Rather a métal Of m’y choice than thé low quality offering in many lounges if both are coing to be busy.

        • Lady London says:
          5 Apr5 April 15:13

          *sorry for unruly French text editor. I correct its first efforts but sometimes it still overrides.

        • The Savage Squirrel says:
          5 Apr5 April 19:57

          +1 with Lady L. A proper cooked-to-order meal is more attractive than the offer in nearly all 3rd party airport lounges if you’re intending to eat anything substantial.

        • Alan says:
          5 Apr5 April 22:56

          Yes – I do like the new food credit option PP has in some places (although was sorely disappointed with the Sydney Domestic offering at Bar Roma).

          Amex Plat could really excel here if they offered a backup credit if refused entry at a PP lounge! Rob have you ever suggested that sort of thing to them?

          • Rob says:
            5 Apr5 April 23:34

            Amex is too busy cutting your Platinum insurance benefits and not telling you about it …. see tomorrow!

          • Alan says:
            6 Apr6 April 00:16

            Oh FFS – first they reduce sign-up bonuses now something else negative. Are they just trying to remove themselves as a decent option in the UK?!

    • BJ says:
      5 Apr5 April 15:22

      Yup, let’s kick silver’s out the BA lounges while we’re at it 🙂

    • Hugo says:
      5 Apr5 April 18:39

      Not long until you’re unhappy with a fee increase and a metal plat card

      • Alan says:
        5 Apr5 April 22:56

        Would definitely prefer backup restaurant credit over a metal card!

  • Michael says:
    5 Apr5 April 14:20

    Sorry i know i’ve asked before but not got around to actually doing it.

    Does the upgrade to Plat from Gold Charge card still have the 20k points offer?

  • Dac123 says:
    5 Apr5 April 19:00

    The Malaysian airline prices are hilarious (if their website works, which it appears not to on mobile). Massively cheaper on skyscanner at ‘full price’

    • BJ says:
      5 Apr5 April 19:48

      It’s quite well known that MAS is generally better booked via OTAs.

  • Shoestring says:
    5 Apr5 April 21:09

    Let’s see how we get on at T3 tomorrow – 2 Lounge Club passes to burn, got dissed & sent away (full up at 10am) from the lounge at Xmas, have not pre-booked (& I’m not sure you can!) as I’m not that bothered & a couple of pints of Guinness in the pub would be fine as well.

    • Lady London says:
      5 Apr5 April 21:28

      Good luck Harry

      • Shoestring says:
        5 Apr5 April 21:59

        cheers – I met some quite amusing people in the T3 pub, it’s a cool place to hang & I don’t think £5/ pint is that bad for a London airport

        • Shoestring says:
          5 Apr5 April 22:02

          also managed to move us up from seats near the toilet block to 7 window & and a row of 8s – you gotta be quick on the kill button 🙂

        • Tom1 says:
          5 Apr5 April 23:05

          What do you use for that, Harry, expert flyer?

  • Delbert says:
    5 Apr5 April 21:28

    Malaysia’s heavily discounted business class LHR – KUL fares don’t come close to reality.

  • Alan says:
    6 Apr6 April 11:21

    That’s even more ominous!

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