Review: The Club At SEA Seattle Airport

This was the final home of the Seattle Admirals Club, closed in 2008-2009 as I recall.

I'm not sure why you'd expect someone at an airport where a new airline just started service to know the pronunciation of a Chinese city. Just an observation.

Helpful review though, Lucky. Thanks for all you do for us. I'm flying through SEA in December and this helps a lot.

Lucky,

Thank you for reviewing such a variety of new products this year! You've really been busy and producing great reports.

Not that it would have helped at all with the airport staff, but Xiamen is pronounced more like "Shah Mun" (mun rhymes with run)

There are two "Club" lounges at Seatac - the one you visited at Terminal A and another in the South Terminal. Both are Priority Pass lounges. The terminal A one is bigger and nicer in my opinion.

I've been to the other "Club at Seattle" and it's TINY. Also I was there in the morning before the Emirates flight and I don't think that lounge even had a bar, but maybe it was just because it was so early. So if you can, I would use the one in the A concourse.

Excellent post Ben! However, if the security line is long, and 20 minutes in the Premium Line is indeed unacceptable, you may wish to go right up to the front since, as a blogger, technically you are a member of the media. I often just show my press pass and media credentials to go right through. It works like a breeze, especially at LAX and JFK, where they understand the importance of the media, and the role that the entertainment industry plays in those two markets. Just a thought! Happy flying! I'm Margaret Grey.

As a Seattlite, I agree that this review and the accompanying photos are quite a fair representation of my dear local airport. Kudos to getting through security in 20 minutes!

Yes I was amazed once when a gal went up with her purse and collected at least twenty packaged items. Come on, the stuff isn't that great, and you can get it at Target.

The UA Club at SEA is also in terminal A and is quite nice. It too is up above the terminal. This would be my choice from term A.

@John - a new airline doesn't start service overnight, there is a ton of preparation and you'd expect some of that might be making airport employees aware that said airline now exists....

Hello Margaret

Using the media elite card and getting better service, in of itself gives someone worse service. Not fundamentally right. No wonder the media have received such bad press. One rule for them and the rest of us just suffer,

I consider this club better than United Club given the premium drinks, hot soup, and even less crowded.

@Margaret: While I hold various security & press credentials, I've never used them to jump the queue anywhere. That's a true dick move, and I would say an abuse of said credentials. Such abuses can lead to getting one's credentials revoked.

Also, Blogger =! Press. While the quality of journalism in the USA has declined substantially since I started in the field decades ago, many bloggers are orders of magnitude lower. Any anonymous arsehole can create a WordPress blog with a few clicks. There's no accountability, no peer-review, no vetting process, no need to show research, no credibility. Just write a few sentences, hit Publish and there it goes. The vast majority of bloggers are NOT making a living from them.

Never heard of anyone called Margaret Grey.

Love the pic of the Xiamen plane with the Emirates 777 taking off in the background.

The hard liquor drinks at "Club at SEA" are complimentary, at least the one in the A concourse.

The hard liquor at the Centurion Studio are extremely limited, although when I was in there yesterday, there was signage that they are soon to be opening a "full bar" and "showers". Just in time to be competing with the next-door Delta Skyclub. 🙂

The Amex studio has no windows at all, so the views tend to better at every other lounge in SeaTac.

Looks like the food and drink are the same, but the size is at least double the size of the other Club at SEA that ANA uses at Seatac. I was in there a couple weeks back. Decent lounge, but small, and while I was one of the first people in there, it was chock full before the flight. Looks like this one is much better.

Margaret Grey should be punched in the crotch every time she uses her "press credentials" to jump ahead of the line.

Who the hell is Margaret Grey besides an Anderson Cooper wannabe? In and of itself, that tells you everything you need to know about her.

@thegraylady
Margaret Grey is undoubtedly a troll. No REAL journalist would try that BS.

It's quieter and cleaner, and having more comfortable seating, than the regular gate areas. Although it's 50% overpriced - the food is paltry; the view is pathetic. The staff, although, are pleasant and polite.

I stopped in here last weekend. The terminal wasn’t crowded at all. The lounge was almost full. Seeing what little food they had, I just went to the restaurant downstairs. Their menu was pretty limited, but it wasn’t crowded.