Our flight from New York to Tashkent was departing at 3PM. Matthew had taken a redeye to Newark, while I had spent the night at the Sheraton JFK (which I won't be reviewing this time around, since I've reviewed it before). I decided to head to the airport way early, at around 10:30AM. Uzbekistan Airways…
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Even when its not under construction its not a great lounge. My most recent experiences there (especially on Thursdays and Fridays) is that its full of groups of 20 somethings pregaming for their flights to Vegas, LA, Miami, wherever. One dude in the bachelor party has the Chase Sapphire reserve and guested all of his buddies into the lounge. (Actually that was me earlier this year, but when i'm traveling for work, it sucks).
The Delta Lounge in T4 is by far the better option.
A total POS lounge even without construction. Not worth anything, at all. Burn it to ground, I say.
What experiences has anyone had accessing this lounge with a different terminal boarding pass? I know it will require a second trip through security, but LoungeBuddy says that "Passengers departing from other terminals will not be able to enter this lounge".
@Brian. No experience, but it would really not be worth the trouble. I would buy a refundable ticket on Delta and use their lounge before I bothered to use this lounge. It really is terrible.
That actually looks like an improvement since I last went there, before Etihad had their won lounge in JFK.
Other people had cards that allowed Priority pass before but the deplorables came out of the woodwork with the chase sapphire reserve. All complete aholes.
I love that they've fancy-stacked the Lorna Doone cookies in the cookie jars. Clearly someone's watched Kloe Kardashian tutorials.
I believe I experienced this lounge before Etihad had its own lounge. This lounge SUCKS!
Whenever I'm traveling I always wonder if I'll look up and see you on the same flight. I'm sitting in the JFK Admiral's lounge in terminal 8 wondering where Lucky is today. To think only a few hours ago you were in JFK.
What does this means?
“Okay, just making sure. We don’t see many people like you on this flight.”
@Ben. SQ use the Virgin Clubhouse for Suites. And there's a Swiss lounge in the terminal that eligible Star Alliance customers can use. So I'm not sure who is sent to this lounge from SQ.
@lovetospendit it means how rare it is to see a tall, white, blonde male flying to Uzbekistan, where the majority of people have a different appearance.
The livery is quite bland. Don't see anything in it to either love or hate it.
Love this review, such a classic dreadful JFK experience start to finish. This has been an issue for about uh 35 years: "Unfortunately there was a rather pushy contract worker 'line manager' who kept raising his voice and yelling at everyone. I don’t think he realized that the issue with talking to some of the people wasn’t the volume, but rather that they didn’t speak English. He’d say something, they’d stare blankly at him, and then he’d just talk louder and more aggressively."
The Froot Loops in the lounge are a metaphor for the entire experience start to finish: wacky and saccharine.
Well, that's depressing . . . I'm flying out of T4 later this year -- though, fortunately on the "A" side -- and was hoping to use this lounge (since I can't access the VS Clubhouse on this trip). Seems like I'm better off hanging out in one of the restaurants drinking Champagne . . .
Yeah, I also thought SQ passengers had access to the VS Clubhouse too.
Man, poor Kuwait Airways...from the (old) Lufthansa lounge to Aer Lingus to...this.
Really poor like the Korean Air business class "lounge" at LAX. Terrible. Stale nachos, cheap salsa, and veggies. Nice. No thanks.
wow nice imporvement a year and a half ago i was there and it was an absolue shit hole,
as a ny resident this is a great upgrade from what it was