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Asked a Q in the daily forum but thought it might be better here for longevity.
I see there are reviews of the PP and Club Aspire lounges at LHR on this site, but they’re from 2021 when Covid was still a thing.
I’m hoping to visit around 11am tomorrow, but have heard that queues can be bad now for the PP lounge. Is that still the case? Pre booking only seems to be available for Club Aspire, would that be the best approach to avoid queues in general?
I went to Club Aspire last week and it was somewhat okay. There were queues to process boarding pass and membership, but I had pre-booked, and was lucky to find a table for myself until another chap joined in as it got busier. I think there were like 3-4 people queueing up at 11am for the non-pre-booked people. Just to confirm, the queue wasn’t there because the lounge was full.
I’ve pretty much decided that I have to pre-book to make sure I get in, and have to factor that into the costs, as I no longer want to get told to sod off.
Ended up going to Club Aspire (note you can’t pre book the same day). Had to register via QR code and was sent away… only to get a text 90 seconds later to come back as I had a place.
Lounge was ‘fine’. Busy, but some seats available. A family of four would probably struggle. Food acceptable without being fantastic, limited soft drinks.
Bizarre that you have to leave the lounge to use the toilet – go for a wee before entering!
Apart from having to leave the lounge to use the toilet, you could probably apply that review to the PP lounge. I was there on a Friday at around 6.00pm a few weeks ago. Warned at the desk that it was busy and I was unlikely to get a table to sit my family of 3 but if I came back later it would be quieter. Opted to go in anyway and managed to find two neighbouring chairs and it did quieten down within 30 minutes or so.
Bizarre that you have to leave the lounge to use the toilet – go for a wee before entering!
It’s not unusual. especially when lounges are retrofitted and the existing plumbing is all in the wrong place and it’s too expensive to move / install
The old BA lounge at AMS was the same – toilets outside the lounge.
The temp lounge also had ‘outside’ toilets but that’s more a reflection that it was an existing, public catering outlet.
In the new OW lounge space the toilet location is the old ‘outside’ one with a door added to access from inside the lounge.
Resurrecting this, is the general sense that the two lounges are fairly interchangable? Club Aspire is in the new free AmEx pre-book list so I’m inclined to go there on that basis, although on the day I might be swayed if our gate is at the PP end.
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