Review: Air Canada Lounge Los Angeles Airport

"O Canada! A "… and then I can no longer recall.

That was a really fast fix of Terminal 2.

Remember being there just about a year ago and it was dismal.

Good to know.

If I remember correctly the AC website stated that there's no shower in this lounge but last time I was there I saw a door at the end of the lounge with a shower tag on it. Is that possible?

I guess all reviews will include some number of referral links now.

It's been over a year and they still do not have alcohol because of their license issues..

Los Angeles Airport? I think you accidentally a word. 😛

Looks nice but is a lounge without booze really a lounge...or just a room with soup? Whatever their issue they need to fix that

I'm just wondering who is writing this review

At the top it states
"SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 BY LUCKY"

But the Twitter conversation with VS seems to be by Nick

Is that Twitter pic THE Nick from this blog? Glad you finally confirmed the suspicion that he is cute. 😉

"I guess all reviews will include some number of referral links now."

Basically.

"Looks nice but is a lounge without booze really a lounge…or just a room with soup? Whatever their issue they need to fix that"

As others have posted, it's been over a year now that they've been having "issues" with their liquor license. I wonder who pissed off the licensing board? 🙂

Figures the Canadians can't get their act together. I don't know why anyone would fly them after the reviews I have seen on various web sites. I would rather sit in a bar and pay for a drink than be in a lounge with no alcohol and I could do w/o it but thats not the point. What's up with the link hating? It's how Ben makes $ which he discloses ad nauseum. Get over it and again do us a favor stop reading and posting about it so I don't have to read it!

While that is a lot of space, AC actually does have quite a large presence at LAX. It's a major connecting hub for them into/out of the South Pacific with a lot of interline traffic and quite a number of flights to Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver - including some large capacity flights operated by 777s. Toronto-LA is one of their top international city pairs overall.

"Literally blew their minds?" That must have been really messy, I hope it didn't get in your soup.

BTW, for those nit familiar with LAX, while you CAN go to different terminals, it's not exactly easy or close (especially if you are dragging luggage around). At least compared to self-contained airports like ATL. I'd planned to do some lounge-hopping last week at LAX, but it turned out to be too much trouble. (Though after 4 hours in the terminal 3 Admirals club, I'm now reconsidering. What a boring lounge.)

I was there Jan 2015
T2 was under construction then, certainly looks much better now (stairs especially)

MLL has 2 showers if I recall, we used the bigger one

It appears according to FlyerTalk, that QR is using the AC Maple Leaf Lounge at LAX T2.

I used the lounge in the middle of December (2015). Was flying Westjet, but used Priority Pass from my Amex Platinum, which allows access for me + 1. I was with my wife and kids, and the kind AC staff let me kids in for free (6 and 3).
I was impressed with the selection of food. My wife, kids and I all ate. They had decent soup, sandwiches and cookies that made a pretty good meal. I don't know what the previous issue with liquor was, but they had a good selection of booze when I was there. The lounge had the widest selection of fruit juices that I can recall seeing at a AC lounge--they had all the usual plus guava and a bunch of others. I saw a sign for showers, but didn't use them.
All in all a good lounge--better than many AC lounges in Canada.