Priority Pass is the world’s largest network of independent airport lounges, with over 1,200 locations around the world. The number of Priority Pass members has increased greatly the past couple of years, since now there are quite a few credit cards with lounge access.
Continue reading: Review: Viena Restaurant Miami Airport (Best Priority Pass Restaurant?)
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
The Corona Beach House is right after you clear security at Checkpoint 2. It’s ok for breakfast or a quick lunch. Oddly enough being Latin themed and in Miami, they don’t serve espresso only coffee.
They also have a “grab and go” section that Priority Pass used to allow access to, but not since October 1st. Apparently airport employees heard about the Priority Pass benefit, so a bunch applied for a premium card and started obtaining snacks or meals every workday for for free.
What is the meaning/reasoning behind the name? Is it misspelt or is there a significance behind Viena that I am missing?
@Lucky: You should have had some of the starters.
Pão de Queijo, Pastéis and Mandioca Frita are popular brazilian snacks.
I love pão de queijo when is done right.
I don't think it's so much that the lines are bad (when it's been at its worse, it took me 20 or so minutes), but Terminal E is ginormous and it can take you a good 20 minutes just to walk to your gate.
@Leeza1 - I wouldn't have been able to resist! Now if only they'd add Versailles or La Carreta to PP, I'd be set.
@anna: Funny to see:
Viena = Brazilian restaurante
Cafe Versailles = Cuban coffee
The only who got the name all right is La Carreta
It is true that at Corona Beach House the “grab and go” and “to go” are not anymore available to Priority Pass members. Since a couple of months ago they started requesting to have a boarding pass of the same day, so airport employees were already excluded. So now the reason to cancel the grab and go is not for employees taking advantage, but simply because it was too easy and too many people were using the benefit.
In my (one) experience at Vienna - it was completely empty as you experienced, and they did not even check for a boarding pass when I handed over the PP card upon sitting down. Just sayin'
Viena is a Brazilian restaurant and fast food chain that is easily found in Brazilian airports and shopping malls. At restaurants locations in Brazil (there's one in GRU), during lunch time, usually they have a self-service buffet where you are charged by the weight of your plate and during the night they have an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet (the different pizza types are brought to your table and you select one slice if you want instead of a self-service scheme).
I wanted to visit this PP restaurant last week when I was at MIA but didn't think I'd have time to leave and come back through security so I went to the Corona Beach house instead. I had breakfast and they give you $30 per person. The breakfast was fine. Then I asked the waiter about tipping and he said it was included and then asked if I wanted any drinks to go from the grab and go section so I got a few bottles of water.
My OCD would not allow me to comfortably eat at a place name "Viena". Maybe in Brazil, but not in US.
@Lucky what was the check in procedure? Did you have to let them know you were using PP b4 ordering? Did they scan or check your boarding pass? Does an arrival one work? Thanks.
I took my parents here using PP, and I also found the food quality to be very good for an airport restaurant
@ Trey -- I didn't even let them know until the check arrived, and they actually never checked my boarding pass either.
@Leeza1 - thanks!
So basically, a random name selection, since nothing on the menu resembles anything from Wien. Just looks like general American fare.