I had spent the week prior to this trip in New York City (staying at the Grand Hyatt and St. Regis). Rather than going straight to JFK, I actually had dinner with Andrew and his mom. She's quite a fascinating character, and as much a fan of Neil Diamond as I'm a fan of One…
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Would the LH lounge have let you in even (either for flying J or because *G) or are the dragons sending you to the Korean lounge if you tried
Could you tell if the F section of the lounge was nicer and/or had better food options?
I assume you were technically entitled to LH lounge access? I mean if it came to that, you could have entered that lounge, flying another star carrier in business, right?
Ben could have gone to the LH lounge, but he gets a lot of credit going to the Korean Air Lounge as directed. You have to figure, he does this for a living, so taking the experience as given by the airline is part of the deal. That said, Lucky, I hope you did go to the LH lounge after taking in the KAL ambiance 🙂
Ben clearly stated in another post that LH wouldn't allow them to enter as LOT had no contract with LH (which is totally in violation with *G lounge policies). They were stuck with the hi-so KAL lounge, it's missing power outlets, crappy 'food' spread, well liquor, web-filtering hell... kinda reminds me of the Delta lounge in JFK Terminal 3.
Seriously, is there some sort of "airline lounge furniture" outlet where everyone shops? You'd be hard-pressed to tell the airline to which that lounge belongs just by looking at the pictures without any signage.
I don't know whether this question has been asked before or not at least I have not come across. How do you manage clicking photos in airports and inside flights ? Airports are high security zones and clicking photos is not encouraged. Has any security officer dissuaded you from clicking and how did you manage ? Just curious as you click a lot of photos inside airports and lounges. Whenever I click a picture inside an airport I get a feeling some security guy is staring at me 😉
How do you compare this lounge to the GOL and Delta ones at GRU? It is hard to beat those 🙂
@ SS -- Not sure where you've heard it's discouraged, but that's not the case in the US. You can even take pictures at TSA checkpoints if you want to. I've never had an issue in the US. Abroad I've once in a while been asked not to take pictures, though it's quite rare.
@ Deo -- They don't allow non-Star Gold passengers flying LOT in the lounge, even though that violates Star Alliance rules (and they own LOT, ironically).
@ Shanghai9 -- I didn't visit it, but based on what I saw it didn't look much nicer. Not sure about the food, though.
Sorry, lucky, but LOT is NOT owned by LH! It is owned by the Polish government (state-owned airline). The FF programme is M&M, but that's the case for many airlines also not owned by LH (eg. Adria Airways).
Water in a sealed cup? Quite common in the skies, served with meals. Guess it's been too long since you flew economy.
@ BaoDen -- Right, and this is on the ground. You don't find it wasteful to serve water in cups that small?
As janyyc says LOT is not owned by LH and they have a contract with LH Business Lounge. The only reason you got invitaion to Korean lounge is, Lufthansa lounge closes about 9PM, so the late night LOT flight is using Korean Lounge.
Yes the LH lounge closes very early, earlier than the stated time of 9:30 pm. I tried to enter at about 9 pm when flying out on TK, and they wouldn't let me in because they were "closing." TK contracts with the Alitalia lounge, which had much better food options than what Lucky found in the KE lounge.
I flew on the KE midnight flight Seoul and I agree, that lounge is pathetic. I rushed onto the A380 business class which was 20x better
I was trying to use Pirority Pass to enter this lounge two days ago. The latest entering time for Pirority Pass is 8:30PM. I reached lounge 8:25PM and the lounge employee told me that they are closing in 5 minutes and I could still get in if I wanted. I knew it is a lie because Korean Air has a schedule flight at midnight every single day. Since they are not welcome Pirority Pass guests, I have decided to leave.