So physically the Korean Air Lounge looks nice enough, but it lacks the three things that make Japanese airline lounges awesome — massage chairs, noodle bars, and curry! Sadly the food spread was pretty lame. In terms of the view from the lounge, it faced the tarmac without any runway views, unfortunately.
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Maybe it is a Korean thing with the boarding passes, because Asiana does the same thing in ICN that you experienced in NRT.
I had Cathay do something similar in SFO for their flight issued on Alaska boarding stock, but they reissued it at their lounge without difficulty.
@ sean -- Hmm, while I know the Star Alliance and OneWorld lounges at Narita like the back of my hand, wasn't really familiar with SkyTeam offerings. I knew there was a SkyClub, but looks like there's also an Air France lounge?
You should have checked out the Delta Sky Club at Narita while you were there. It's huge and one of the best clubs in their system, IMHO. Try it out the next time you are flying SkyTeam.
Lucky, this post makes me miss living in Japan so much. I always ran into some random issue while flying back and forth to the US through Narita. Gotta love the Japanese, very thorough people.
Liked the observation about the meticulous check of your boarding card after just having it reprinted. You just can't be too careful about preventing lounge crashers.
Random thought: When you being living in hotels full-time, will every day provide us anecdotes, like one continuous trip report? One can only hope! 😉
The DL SC has slightly better food options and choice between two hot soups.
Still not up to the standards of the other lounges, but slightly better than the KE lounge.
SC has really nice showers, but considering you spent the night in the Hilton it doesn't matter :p
I never found an amazing lounge at Narita. It is always OK but nothing compared to other top airports.
I've had similar boarding pass issues with Asiana and Singapore Airlines at LAX, ICN, KIX, and SIN. Fortunately places like ICN tend to have ticket counters right outside the lounge, but it does seem that these lounges don't handle boarding pass printing
Perhaps security/check-in/lounge people get confused whenever an usual situation is encountered?
It took me a minute to convince a lounge attendant to let me into OS Business Lounge in DME because she'd never seen an OS boarding pass on SQ stock (was flying IAH-DME-VIE with first leg on SQ).
In her defense though, it's remarkable how many people don't know lounge rules -- while I was in the lounge, she probably turned away a dozen or so people.