Review: Oneworld Lounge Mexico City Airport

if you transit through Mexico much, it may be worth applying for viajero confiable (their version of global entry). it has saved me a fair amount of time at MEX before.

I guess “reasonably nice decor” is in the eye of the beholder. It looks like a hospital waiting room and cafeteria to me. Maybe the finishes look nicer in person. Thanks for the review.

The ground floor sign by the lift is confusing. You refer to it as the "oneworld lounge", but the ground floor sign says the 1st floor is an Iberia lounge - and the oneworld logo is actually next to the American lounge on the 2nd floor. While the actual signage on the 1st floor says it's "GIS" - who knows what that means.

My OCD finds the whole situation extremely uncomfortable.

But the lounge looks nice enough.

@ The nice Paul -- I share your confusion. My interpretation is that it's a shared oneworld lounge operated by Iberia, but it doesn't seem to be that straightforward. Meanwhile the oneworld website refers to this as the "Premium Traveller Lounge." Who the heck knows...

@ Brian -- You're right, compared to lounges elsewhere, this isn't especially nice. However, of the three lounges I visited at Mexico City Airport, this one had the best decor by far.

It's a nice lounge - also compared to the AeroMexico lounge in the other terminal, which happens to be their hub ...

Yes, Mexican immigration is painful. Not as bad as the US (without Global Entry), though ...

Seems like an Iberia lounge. Both their lounges in Madrid and Barcelona are crap. So wouldn’t expect much in Mexicon city.

@Lucky & @The nice Paul. It's now a GIS lounge but was originally opened with the sole purpose of being an Iberia lounge (with BA passengers also having access). It used to be furnished the exact same way as the T4 lounge in Madrid but was changed once taken over by a third party company and some of the Iberia signs were probably left behind. Last time I was there (pre GIS take over), Oneworld elites could choose either the admirals club or the Iberia lounge.

The United Club is no better than any of these three either.

T2 much nicer overall too.

But I’ve never had to wait at security OR immigration.

Food depicted in these pictures are not the norm at this lounge, maybe lucky due to time of day or due to departure/arrival of an IB flight.

I have used this lounge time and time again and, consistently, food offerings in the late afternoon are minimal in quantity and quality.

They go the length of closing that main refrigerator depicted on the third photo, making it clear "Not in service - not to be used" !

When I visited this place on the same MEX-IPC ticket, I got challenged by a manager for taking photographs in the lounge. She seemed to be worried that I was "working for the competition". She was sort of satisfied when I told her they were for non commercial purposes. . .

That lounge looks awful, like a IKEA cafeteria.

I think it actually does make sense for security to take nearly no time vs immigration taking forever; immigration ends up being the bottleneck that keeps the lines short at security.

When I visited there was almost no food at all. Certainly nothing which looked edible. Thankfully for immigration I had zero wait time in MEX

If you're going to eat anywhere but the lounges in Terminal 1 at MEX, I suggest you try the French cafe, Bistrot Mosaico. Excellent food at ridiculously affordable prices. I had a delicious 3 egg salmon omelet that was simply stuffed with salmon, plus a cappuccino for under $10.

I'm with Brian on this one. I'd gladly take the AA lounge with it's "dated" decor over this any day! This looks cheap and worse, those hard plastic chairs stolen from some grade school do NOT promote any sort of relaxation whatsoever.

@Lucky - you've never cleared immigration in Mexico in less than 30 minutes? Try being a non-USA citizen clearing immigration in SFO, Hawaii, JFK, LAX or Newark in less than 2 hours!! 30 mins seems pretty good IMO.

Lucky, next time you go through terminal 2 in MEX out the new American Express Lounge. It was completely remodeled and has a much better layout and the service improved a lot!

I don’t get it. Why doesn’t there seem to be any local cuisine on offer at the buffet?

Does the shower room have a sink and toilet or just the shower?

@ HM -- Nope, it doesn't have a sink or toilet.

Does it stay open late enough to serve the 11pm BA flight?