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Sounds decent at LAX. Maybe Delta can quit neglecting the SkyDumps at their home airport, ATL. All but one of them in ATL make you wonder if you would not be better off being in the crowded concourse.
I have an award ticket booked using Delta miles on Korean Air-business class, would this be one of the lounges that I could use or do I have other choices in LAX? Your favorites? Thanks!
@Christian I haven't been to the lounge, but I think those are cereal dispensers, not SToS. Looks like corn flakes, Rice Chex (?), and raisin bran.
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Honestly it looks like every other SkyClub I've been in (SEA, JFK, ATL).
Perhaps I'm spoiled by AS Board Rooms, but I've always been disappointed in SkyClubs.
At least it's better than Uniteds garbage offering.
I haven't been in there since July 2012. And 20-some years ago when I was a road warrior I spent more time in Delta Crown Rooms than at home.
Food was never a strong point. Porridge and Hard-boiled eggs ?? I'm thinking that would be a very poor choice for "cabin comfort" on a long flight.
Nick didn't show any pictures, so I sure hope liquor is still available.
Yes, liquor is definitely still available. I'm still disappointed in general for having only one low-carb food available... the tuna salad. Everything else is carby, and bad for your heart and waistline.
@Darla if you're flying Korean you're departing from Tom Bradley (the main international terminal serving the vast majority of foreign carriers). Bradley is separated from the Delta terminal (T5) by T4 (AA). You'll have access to the Korean Air lounge inside TBIT. It's definitely not something to go out of your way to visit. On a few of my most recent flights, I've arrived at the airport just at the baggage drop cutoff, and been through to the boarding area just as people were starting to board. You have enough time to buy a couple snacks and then walk on...that's a much more pleasant experience to me than sitting a boring lounge.
I am a Silver Medallion flyer who flys Delta whenever it is possible and I stopped by the LAX Delta SkyClub en route to Australia on a family vacation and paid extra cash to get my family in the Crown Room with me as we had a five hour layover. After a while family wanted to head out for dinner and I was getting work done so I sent them along and told them to bring me back something. The staff wouldn't let them bring me a soft pretzel and a salad back into the lounge, so I had to leave the lounge and go sit at a gate downstairs by myself and eat with my food in my lap. Isn't the lounge meant to reward the premium customers with an enhanced travel experience? This seems to me to be yet another example of leaders publishing rules rather than teaching and empowering their staff to think about how they can give their customers loyalty inducing experiences. What a dud of a Delta premium customer experience!
I fly only once per month, but since my hub is ATL I've settled on Delta, whom I've been dating exclusively for roughly the last two years. I don't have status, but always pay for first class and have also purchased an "Executive" club membership so I have a place to be reasonably isolated with my own thoughts. The food is like that in the Marriott concierge lounges, or maybe not even that "good", which I find a bit shameful. The rest of the accoutrements are passable, but as one of the (apparently) few who actually pay FULL price for these "perks" I've found that most of these once-glorious extras have been diluted to the point of being little more than appliqué. Or, as the Brits would say, "All face and no trousers."
@Biffster, You certainly raise a valid point. I especially enjoyed your British proverb of sorts. We have something similar in Asia.
Unfortunately most American lounges and premium cabins pale in comparison to the lounges in Asia. Delta Lounges are quite the step above United Airlines. Even still, you should take a look at Maple Leaf Lounges after their budget cuts.
The food is not even applique as you would call them. Stale, cold muffins. Broken coffee machine.
It is true that it's been diluted. I'm not too sure about Delta but for Air Canada lounges there are a lot of members who access it through the frequent flyer program especially so with Air Canada and United being Star Alliance members; anyone with a Gold Status on Star Alliance will be able to access their lounges. Hence understandably, the food costs would likely be quite a high operational cost.
Maybe it's time for you to stop paying full price and get into the credit card points game. Instead of getting 1-3% cashback with your cards, you get more value spending $75,000 and using it for a premium ticket.
I've question regarding staying in Delta SkyAwards Lounge. It's possible to get to Delta lounge with ticket in business flying from LAX to SJO?
The food at the LAX Sky Club has been better than other locations.
The times I visited there was a nice selection of sandwiches and some sides.
Far better than that chicken salad and bag soup they have at most locations.