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Priority Pass has brought back its compelling Black Friday offer once again.

Priority Pass is a global airport lounge programme which allows you to access 1,300 lounge and airport experiences, such as restaurants and sleep pods, across the world, irrespective of your airline status or ticket type.

You can save 40% on Priority Pass Standard memberships and 25% on Standard Plus memberships when you purchase before 30th November 2022.

Priority Pass app

If you have some upcoming trips and don’t currently have a Priority Pass or lounge access then now may be a good time to try it.

The promotion is valid on the Standard and Standard Plus plans.

  • you pay £41 (normally £69) to join the ‘pay as you go’ Standard plan – you will be charged £24 per lounge visit
  • you pay £141 (normally £189) for the ’10 visits included’ Standard Plus plan, with guests or additional visits costing £24

The ‘Prestige’ plan with unlimited free visits remains at £339 and is not reduced.

The guest fee is currently £20 but increases to £24 on 1st December – any visits you squeeze in before then will be charged at the lower rate.

You can select these discounted memberships on the Priority Pass website here.  

Which Priority Pass membership plan is best?

There is no ‘right’ answer here.  It depends on how often you will by flying over the next year and whether you are using airports which have lounges which accept Priority Pass. 

You can search the Priority Pass website or app by airport to find participating lounges. There are still as few lounges yet to reopen post covid but this is mainly in airports where there are multiple Priority Pass options.

It is worth remembering that the No1 Lounge portfolio has returned to Priority Pass after a period away and is now part-owned by the same company that owns Priority Pass.

Around London:

  • At Heathrow, your current options are Club Aspire in Terminal 5 (above) and, in Terminal 3, the No1 Lounge and Club Aspire
  • At Gatwick, your current options in the North Terminal are The Gateway and No1 Lounge and in the South terminal No1 Lounge and My Lounge
  • At Luton you have the newly refurbished Aspire lounge
  • At Stansted you can access the Escape lounge (please note that this lounge is temporarily closed for maintenance from 22nd to 24th November)

Outside London:

  • At Manchester there’s an Escape Lounge and Aspire Lounge in both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Terminal 3 has two Escape Lounges.
  • Birmingham has an Aspire Lounge, a No1 Lounge and a Clubrooms (an additional fee is required for Clubrooms)
  • There are two Aspire Lounges at Edinburgh (Gates 4 or 16)
  • At Belfast Airport there’s an Aspire Lounge

This is not a comprehensive list – many other UK airports have participating Priority Pass lounges too. You can check your nearest airport by using the search box on the Priority Pass site.

It’s worth noting that you can also prebook No1 Lounges, Club Aspire lounges (Heathrow Terminal 5 only), Escape Lounges and My Lounge for a £6 fee. This guarantees you access.

How does a membership stack up

The Standard Plus membership is the most attractive option for most people.   As long as you hit 10 visits within your membership year, you will only be paying £14.10 each time under this offer.  Rob’s personal value benchmark is how much a bowl of pasta and a glass of wine would cost in a terminal restaurant versus the lounge access cost – so £14.10 seems good value in this context.

No1 Lounge Gatwick North

Standard membership is only attractive if you plan to make a few visits.  If you made five or more lounge visits per year you would be better off with Standard Plus, which is just £141 under this promotion, compared to paying £41 plus £24 per visit for the Standard plan.

It is also worth factoring in that Priority Pass membership fees will be increasing very soon in line with the increase in guest fees to £24. The Standard Plus membership will be £229 from 1st December, so if you are considering getting a Priority Pass membership, the Black Friday offer is a good option.

The Black Friday offer runs until 30th November 2022. You can buy on the Priority Pass website here.

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Comments (58)

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  • Alex says:
    22 Nov22 November 10:19

    I do think a few articles are going too far down the sponsorship route at this stage. Any of us with a Priority Pass know that there have been big issues with the product this year and that the chances of getting admission at MAN, LGW and LHR is extremely limited. But this article doesn’t even touch on that (it mentions very briefly that you can guarantee admission at some lounges by paying (though actually you can’t do that at MAN) but it doesn’t state the reality that if much of your travel is at peak times, you’ll almost never get in just with a PP.

    By all means mention the offer and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the product but I think HfP is better than this sort of puff piece.

    • Rob says:
      22 Nov22 November 10:44

      And how much money have you spent with us this year towards our £150k per annum running costs Alex? (The £150k is before I get paid, by the way – £150k covers the two staff, office and general costs.)

      • Alex says:
        22 Nov22 November 11:01

        Too defensive, Rob. I like the site, I’ve read it for years, I use your sponsored links deliberately, I’ve booked through Emyr. But I think there’s a line when you uncritically endorse what we all know is a flawed product in a lot of ways.

        I think there is a difference between, say, a sponsored article about a random hotel that lots of us won’t ever visit, but that is good for the site because it brings in revenue, and publishing something like this which may encourage especially more casual readers to buy a product which may well be worthless to them.

        • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
          22 Nov22 November 11:29

          Indeed.

          No one is denying Robs right to make a living and to accept sponsorship (which is clearly indicated) for an article but it is more than a little tone deaf not to fully recognise the issues that many people are having (and will have) in accessing PP lounges on an almost daily basis. This is not just in the UK but in other locations as well.

          A few weeks ago there was a growing number of PP holders waiting to access the Aspire lounge at AMS and having to join a virtual queue whereas many others were gaining entry because they (as I did) had airline access. I can imagine what those people were thinking!

          Of course people must make their own decision on whether to buy a PP (or any other product such as credit cards) or not but when access issues aren’t fully addressed during the purchase process people aren’t being fully informed. This is not just an issue for you but for PP to address.

          A dissapointed customer is unlikely to be a repeat customer or a repeat reader.

        • Callum says:
          22 Nov22 November 14:45

          I think it’s probably easy to be overly defensive when you’ve had the small but vocal HfP fan club worshipping you for years!

          It’s interesting they’ve not jumped in yet – they usually barge in with hilarious comments like “I’m sure Rob will refund your yearly membership fees” way before now.

      • Save East Coast Rewards says:
        22 Nov22 November 11:29

        Don’t attack the readers as without readers you won’t have sponsors!

        • simon says:
          22 Nov22 November 12:41

          And without sponsors you’d have nothing to read!

          • Save East Coast Rewards says:
            22 Nov22 November 13:57

            I think the main issue is we hold HfP to a higher standard than US based blogs where every single article is a plug for a credit card, whatever commission they get reflects the prominence of the mention. A recommendation on HfP whether sponsored or a regular article is generally trustworthy. The Barclays coverage might be excessive but it is a genuinely good offer. Everytime Priority Pass gets mentioned whether on its own or in an article about Amex the comments are full of people mentioning how they are denied access to the UK lounges.

            It’s easy to be a critic and I respect Rob for keeping Rhys and Sinead employed during the difficult times rather than cutting back but trust is important.

            It seems that now Priority Pass is useless for the core readership of HfP. Lounges in the UK are too busy and often get denied. Outside of the UK things are better. I’ve never been declined in Bologna and as the lounge is landside they give anyone with lounge access fast track and they’ve also let me into the lounge when I’ve arrived and waiting for someone to pick me up

          • simon says:
            22 Nov22 November 14:08

            True – I’m quite new to this and it’s only reading through the comments that I’ve found out PP is pretty garbage! But still, i respect that the sponsored posts are labelled that way 🙂

          • TGLoyalty says:
            22 Nov22 November 17:37

            Ah that old chestnut. No one is saying don’t have sponsors. It’s have integrity or call out those who offer a substandard product

            PP is substandard.

      • TimM says:
        22 Nov22 November 12:14

        Tetchy.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        22 Nov22 November 12:55

        Has to be editorial integrity Rob. Most feel like Encouraging people (who know no better) to pay for Priority pass in the U.K. is too far

        It’s essentially useless in the U.K. even Collinson owed lounges are on a pre book money grab with PP users.

      • Chas says:
        22 Nov22 November 13:53

        He isn’t saying that you shouldn’t run sponsored articles – we all know you have to have some considerable income in order to make the site profitable. The issue is that the article is completely unbalanced, which surprises me as in the past you’ve highlighted times when you’ve turned down large financial incentives when it hasn’t fitted with what HfP stands for, namely unbiased editorial content.

        I’m also confused why my comment of c8:23 this morning has been deleted. All I did was speculate that PP wouldn’t see a positive return on this sponsored article, yet plenty of even more negative comments about PP remain. I’m a huge fan of the site, but selectively deleting comments doesn’t sit well with me (whether they were my comments of not)…

        • Save East Coast Rewards says:
          22 Nov22 November 14:16

          Are you sure it was deleted? I’ve never seen criticism deleted on here but sometimes posts fall under moderation so they appear to you but not to others until they’re approved.

          • Mr(s) Entitled says:
            22 Nov22 November 14:23

            Posts do get deleted with one of the quirks being that it takes any replies with it. That always used to be the case anyway.

          • Chas says:
            22 Nov22 November 14:32

            I’m absolutely positive. I had the page still open on my screen, and before I refreshed the page I checked the time of it which is an approach I use to help identify which comments / replies are new, and which are old (which I don’t want to re-read).

            Mr(s) Entitled – my post was a brand new comment, not a reply, so it couldn’t have been deleted as a result of a comment nested higher being deleted. It seems that the deletion of my comment was intentional. I’m fine with editorial rights meaning that comments can be deleted if they are rude or offensive, as Rob et al have done in the past, but my comment was neither of those. I find it very odd….

  • Richie says:
    22 Nov22 November 11:38

    You won’t find me parting with £41 or more without a thorough read of reviews and many do the same.

  • TimM says:
    22 Nov22 November 11:53

    I had forgotten about the Regus-Dragonpass deal. Now signed up and two visits pre-paid, thanks.

    • Charles Martel says:
      22 Nov22 November 12:29

      Has anyone else had issues topping up the DragonPass app, I tried after being blessed by the guards at T5 with a potential entrance but neither my MBNA or Barclaycard would go through.

  • His Holyness says:
    22 Nov22 November 12:32

    I think Rob knows loyalty (points and miles) is going down the pan. The squeeze is gonna be brutal in 2023. Even with the well-heeled, organic Duchy original-buying London elite we are told is the main readership.

    • Rob says:
      22 Nov22 November 12:45

      Of all the jobs you’d want to have, a job where you effectively get paid for giving away free money (in terms of card sign up bonuses) is probably a good place to be 🙂

    • Numpty says:
      22 Nov22 November 15:11

      The points game has been ‘going down the pan’ for at least the last 10 years since i started getting into it. But, still here, still collecting points and making redemption bookings – next week is biz class to NYC and staying in an IHG hotel in central Manhattan on the half price ‘promo’. Still beats paying full fare for economy or business and paying cash for a Red Roof Inn. Maybe things will go full circle and 3V cards will come back!

  • Flyer says:
    22 Nov22 November 13:30

    I gave up on Priority Pass this year, after many years. The only Priority I received was being told I wasn’t coming in before they told the next person behind me. The UK, Europe situation is dire for access. Can’t say about USA, always have airline access. I wrote to them expressing my deep disappointment with the situation, got an acknowledgement, never got a reply.
    They have either lost all sense of service or it’s just a cash cow designed to fleece the unsuspecting.

  • Ian says:
    22 Nov22 November 14:22

    Outrageous that HfP Is promoting this as a “compelling” offer when it knows perfectly well the number of people who have tried unsuccessfully on so many occasions to access a lounge with Priority Pass. It further erodes the trust (if anyone still has any) in the ‘journalism’ of HfP. And yes, I know the article says it’s sponsored, but that’s hardly the point.

    • Barrel for Scraping says:
      22 Nov22 November 14:55

      It does have its uses but I think this one should have came under a bits article where they could mention the issues with priority pass. For those travelling in less busy airports it still has its uses.

  • yorkieflyer says:
    22 Nov22 November 14:51

    I do think that a line needs to be drawn somewhere regarding sponsorship, reputations elsewhere in the news eg Qatar World Cup,are clearly being damaged with sponsorship which likely will have an adverse impact on the sponsor.
    PP refused accommodation to paying card holders through the pandemic and entry to UK lounges is clearly a lottery given the low fee paid by PP to lounges and the block booking by airlines and all you can drink booze fest through packages

  • yorkieflyer says:
    22 Nov22 November 14:53

    At least comments are allowed on the article 😎, not sure PP will be back with another of these?

    • Chas says:
      22 Nov22 November 15:18

      Careful – you might find your comment deleted for expressing such sentiment!

      Early this morning I said something along the lines of “I’m going to grab the popcorn. I can’t see PP thinking that this was a worthwhile sponsorship once the comments start”, and that comment no longer exists…..

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