Review: Primeclass Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA)

Terminal 2 is used by airlines not part of Star Alliance (Plenty of Airlines not part of LH Group that use T1)

"This is probably the least impressive Primeclass Lounge I’ve visited."

It would also be interesting to know how it compares in your opinion to other PP lounges at FRA (for example, is it better for PP users to come here or to the Air France lounge?).

Yeah, MEA for example also uses T1.

Without a doubt, it's a fantastic blog right here, and Frankfurt is certainly an interesting part of the world. I love their cars. Oh! and their flipping departure and arrival boards near the check-in counter is remarkable to watch. And while these reviews here are fantastically formulaic to the point of OCD, and not necessarily in a bad way, it's like... I know exactly what's going to come next as I scroll down the page. 'and then, and then, and then' etc. Kudos for making my day a little bit more interesting by reading all about airport lounges lol. Good times.
So yeah, regarding Frankfurt and Germany as a whole, I take a certain amount of pleasure eating at their central markets. It's a shame USA doesn't embrace this type of culture and most of the country is riddled with strip malls and meth. In Frankfurt there are two old ladies who sell a rather famous variety of wurst. Frau Schriber is the owners name, or something along those lines. She's locally a bit famous, all for boiling and serving up sausages in her stand. You can google her or find her in various printed publications throughout the years. I don't speak (much) German but I would estimate that a lot of the content is about sausages. Also, I don't actually know if she makes the wurst or not, and I assuage the same doubtful consideration towards the bread and mustards which are optional with purchase, but you have to absolutely admire a woman who devotes nearly her entire adult life to the craft of boiling sausages. One time I was in Berlin and under the bridge near the central train station there was a stand that had a remarkably big 'doner' rotating upright on their grill. I thought it was as big as 2 5-gallon drums (the blue things you attach to water dispensers, as example). When you order the person at the counter asks what you'd like, and if you chose a doner you can have it in bread, which is the norm, or they do other things like Iskander (sp?), which is the shaved meat, served on a plate of torn up pita bread, with a tomato sauce and yogurt. Anyway, the traditional doner kebab in bread is offered with a combination of lettuce, cabbage, carrot, garlic sauce, you name it! One thing I noticed on my last trip to Germany (I visit frequently), was that there was a tomato shortage, and when you ask to recieve them in your doner I seriously am not joking when I say it's like a quarter of one slice that they put in there!
Overall my impression is that a doner kebab stand is fantastic, and the Germans really know how to do it justice, which makes me wonder why on earth doesn't any lounge in Germany have a doner kebab stand? I mean, I've been to quite a few and never seen one. The Lufthansa lounge has little hot dogs which are a delight, but never have I seen a kebab. Imagine that! The EVA lounge has a (30-45%) famous hot dog stand where you can make your own hotdog with a bun and all those traditional - somewhat cliched - condiments. I love visiting and intentionally choose a flight with a longer connection just so I can sit at the lounge and eat hotdogs.

In my experience, yes, sometimes.

Singapore Airlines just sent us to the Primeclass lounge in FRA, but I also took a walk and checked out the Centurion Lounge and the Chase Sapphire lounge (we're full, give us your cell and we'll let you know when we have room, they texted in 12 minutes and were not crowded). Frankly, they are all just run of the mill lounges, although of the three only Primeclass lacked a bar. I didn't see any food I wanted to try at any of the three. Only Amex had a vegetarian entree. Centurion lounge had a stairway labeled "EXIT" down to the floor where the gates are, but when I got to the bottom they told me to walk back upstairs again, go out where I came in, and then go down the public stairway. Signs must be really difficult to change?

I’d suggest decaf.

I'm only guessing, but perhaps it was an emergency exit? As often is the case when it leads you into a stairwell.

Fanta and Pretzels in the same place at the same time and you don't give the lounge 5 stars?

That's every lounge in Germany lol

Isn't Primeclass somehow tied to TK?

That pretzel looks like an American mall food court/movie theater deal. Come to Bavaria if you want REAL pretzels ... the best on the damn planet.

Also, is this new to Priority Pass? I fly in/out of FRA fairly regularly with homes in Bavaria and Florida and I only recall using the Luxx (definitely not deluxe ... old AA Admirals Club I believe) Lounge in the other terminal.

Is this the only lounge at Frankfurt behind passport control? I will have to kill time for a 6 hour layover in Frankfurt, and will probably spend a lot of it in there.

It's owned and operated by TAV which is the Turkish Airports group...

Chase Sapphire lounge in FRA? As far as I know the only Intl Sapphire lounge is HKG.

You can also access the "Priority Lounge" with your PrioritiyPass right next to the Primeclass lounge. It's very similar there.

Thank you for this very informative review!

If flying Oneworld, JAL Sakura is a decent option as well.