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    Hello all, soon I’ll be travelling via ARN on SAS, and the connection at ARN is 3 and half hours, I’m thinking about buying lounge access for this, as it’s a long enough layover.

    Does anyone think it’s worth paying that fee to access, how good is the food quality, the seating, how busy is it generally etc (my flight flight connection time is around midday to middle of the afternoon).

    Don’t say anything about accessing lounges via credit cards, if this was an option I wouldn’t be asking about this in the first place – unfortunately there’s some HfP readers that don’t understand this sort of thing…

    Thank you to anyone who can help

    Jonathan

    3,222 posts

    Is this the Pearl Lounge at T5?

    I’ve only been to the T2 one and that was fine. It was quite a limited food and drink option but still acceptable – think cheese, meats and salad plus some soup etc rather than a full on meal.

    I’d imagine the T5 one would be similar.

    124 posts

    It doesn’t specify a name of the lounge, although the flights are going via T5 in ARN

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    This response could possibly be a bit late but my experience of the SAS T5 lounge was very disappointing. It was rammed, the food choice was basic; mostly crudités, very simple salads, and lots of bread. The hot food was so unremarkable I cannot even remember what the options were, probably soup!? Seating was not comfortable nor relaxing, didn’t partake in the alcohol. There were shower facilities but there was a weird set up in that it was off to the left hand side….the gold lounge, so you were allowed to briefly enter the gold lounge just for the showers but had to return to the paupers business lounge after. Which just left you with a slight second rate taste in the mouth after. If I was offered £24.50 to leave the biz lounge I would have gladly taken it.

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