Best lounge for Heathrow T5 – BA Club Europe

[DJ]

Hi,

We will be traveling via T5, just wondering if we would be better off to use the Plaza Premium lounge (via Amex) instead of BA’s Galleries lounge?

Thanks

[Richie]

If you have enough time the T5B lounge is good.

[can2]

I think Plaza is better than Galleries, especially for veg/an food. It was never too crowded for me either..

[VALittleRed]

I would just bear in mind the recent Hygiene rating of Plaza Prem T5

[can2]

It is 1!
Why are my favourite curry places never go above 3?

[The real Swiss Tony]

can2 wrote:

It is 1!
Why are my favourite curry places never go above 3?

There’s a very well regarded curry place near me. Difficult to get a table, typically at least a 1hr wait for deliveries at the weekend etc. Saw in the local press a few days ago it’s just again been awarded a 1* rating. They clearly don’t give a stuff (unlike every other restaurant I know of).

Also remember that the BA lounges at LHR T5 (think it was all of them) were given 1* ratings a few years back.

[VALittleRed]

The real Swiss Tony wrote:

can2 wrote:

It is 1!
Why are my favourite curry places never go above 3?

There’s a very well regarded curry place near me. Difficult to get a table, typically at least a 1hr wait for deliveries at the weekend etc. Saw in the local press a few days ago it’s just again been awarded a 1* rating. They clearly don’t give a stuff (unlike every other restaurant I know of).

Also remember that the BA lounges at LHR T5 (think it was all of them) were given 1* ratings a few years back.

That’s up to them.

RE BA LHR T5, iirc that was mainly procedural (as opposed to actual hygiene & food practice) in adequate record keeping which was swiftly resolved. Hopefully will be swiftly resolved at Plaza T5 soon.

[Wayland]

Richie wrote:

If you have enough time the T5B lounge is good.

Whilst this might have been true at one point, my recent brief visits (after de-camping from T5A lounge for a B gate departure), have seen it pretty rammed with the only free seats at the long communal dining tables near to the buffet/entrance. I wouldn’t make the effort to go to T5B unless your flight is departing from there.

[PeteM]

Always worth checking the occupancy: https://ba-uk-occupancy.livereachmedia.com/