Update: Plans have been revealed for the Centurion Lounge Seattle to be expanded to 13,700 square feet.
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Can we finally get a Centurion Lounge at JFK, LAX and ORD? Just raise the admission price to keep the riff-raff out.
This is how American Express should different themselves from other credit card issuers by having their own luxurious Centurion lounges at major airports around the world. To minimize overcrowding, they can charge US$100 entry fee to each AmEx member who is not a Centurion or Platinum cardholder. That's how they can regain the exclusivity of their brand, otherwise most people would see them as just another credit card issuer.
That's actually nothing new. They've been looking at additional space from day one, with the desire to add a full kitchen. One idea involved expanding over the parking spots immediately outside the windows, according to a manager I talked to on opening day. I guess the DL Sky Club construction makes the idea a tad more practical, but realistically changes are years away.
In the meantime, indeed the Studio is chronically crowded, to the point that the staff has to assign seats most of the time. Incidentally food quality dipped lately, after going up a notch 6 months ago.
Well who could have seen that coming? /s
Seattle is a growing at a rate far outpacing infrastructure in almost all arenas. Want a last minute dinner reservation? Good luck. Running to Whole Foods for some pizza? Get in one of the 11 lines stretching halfway to the back of the store at 3pm. The people trying to sell us things can't keep up and routinely underestimate the population and the demand: e.g. the "Centurion Studio." We're stacked on top of each other in this city as it is.
I go through SEA every week and this lounge is always packed, but the staff do a great job providing excellent service given their limitations. I was speaking with their staff the other week and heard that we may see an expansion as soon as October/November. That would be VERY well received, if actually true!
@dmomemd LOL! Everything seems packed lately, except maybe the Club @ SEA in Concourse A. @Lucky, Another issue with the Centurion Studio is that it closes at 10pm, when those of us with late departures all leave the Centurion Studio together and migrate en-masse to the Board Room...
And yeah, is Ford OK? I hope whoever it is, is OK.
Amex needs to stop referring the the Centurian lounges as a perk. They are not. The are dirty, crowded, and make you feel like you are in a bus station.
I recently waited longer to get into the Toronto centurion lounge than I stayed inside. It was loud and packed with people and kids everywhere. This was not the first time I have had an experience like this in their lounges. I don't think I'll make the effort and be disappointed again.