There are four Star Alliance lounges at Heathrow Terminal 2, operated by Air Canada, Lufthansa, Singapore, and United. Due to Star Alliance regulations, all first class passengers can use all Star Alliance first class lounges, while all Star Alliance business class and Star Gold passengers can use all business class lounges. Given the high standards…
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Are SQ lounges ever really industry leading? I mean, even the Private Room in SIN (while a beautiful and quietly intimate lounge) is hardly industry leading. I would argue that other parts of SQ's operation, including inflight, are of course industry leading. Their lounges are definitely above average, but not exceptional.
you know what is underwhelming?........the nonsense and entitled garbage you write on this blog
Just want to understand what is Important for a First Class passenger who paid 10K+ USD ?
Is it Exceptional Lounge and Average hard and soft product
or is it average Lounge and Exceptional hard and soft product ?
Don't know about the AC lounge but I do know that Sodexho caters both the SQ and UC lounges. When I was there in July, the Western food was the same in both lounges (J lounges only).
Next time you should check out the LH Lounge in 2A. I believe it's DO&CO and probably has the best food of the bunch.
Surprisingly though, UC was my favorite - IMO, the bar in the UC is top notch of a J lounge and the best in the UC system
UA lounge at T2 has the best showers. In fact those are one of the best business lounge showers pretty much everywhere.
AC has nice laid back atmosphere and probably the best views of the tarmac, but is crowded most of the time.
LH lounge has a nice view of the runaway and the taxiways, so you can watch planes queue and take off.
SQ has very attentive staff at the dining area, but gets crowded for the SQ flights (which is understandable).
Have you been to the LH lounge at T2? Compared to the other 3 my ranking for business class is...
Air Canada Maple Leaf
Lufthansa Senator
Singapore Kris Lounge
UA Club
Thoughts on my ranking?
Lucky, any reason why you didn't review the LH lounge on this trip since you haven't yet?
How can be United Airlines be better ? Thier lounge for business class/ Gold card members is a pure horror same as those crap in US. I felt good in SQ lounge but the Indian staff was really disappointing. Lufthansa lounge is the same as other lounges in Germany....nothing nice about it... same booring design... same booring kartoffeln salad and cheap sparkling wines. The design of Air Canada is original and nice but the food is always mixed depends of your departure day. One time you get really good stuff one time you want to change the lounge. But anyhow. It's good to have our Star Alliance lounger there in one terminal. Champagne and tap water for everyone.
The Person writing under the name C is a bit rude and probably should have kept his her opinions to themselves.
When I flew Air New Zealand out of LHR I asked the check-in clerk which lounge she would recommend.
She said go to Singapore for the food and then United for the (fabulously long) bar and drinks. Worked out fine.
"one of those things that maintains temperature, that personally I associate with a convenience store"
Seriously? So how else do you suggest they keep the food warm? In some customized gleaming Royal Selangor platter on a special keep warm plate for you? This blog used to be much better when it started out. But the blogger has lost the plot. Not anywhere near "nonsense and entitled garbage", but there certainly are little whiffs here and there nowadays.
When I was at the SQ's First Class Lounge last year, they actually had a lunch menu to order from.
Perhaps C would like to explain why he/she spends time reading nonsense and entitled garbage .
LIke is too short to do that.
I agree SQ lounges are really not industry leaders . Mediocre at best. Virgin club house now that's something else
I tried SQ biz class for the first time earlier this year, transitting at their home base SIN to SYD. Maybe i was expecting too much... the biz lounges in both T2 & T3 were nice, but rather underwhelming (food, facilities) for home base. CX does a much better job at HKG (excellent design, showers, food selection).
As for their seat, on the A380 it's awesome in terms of real estate but not as comfy sleeping on a diagonal; also much prefer to turn seat to bed without getting up & flipping the back down... service is great as expected; book-the-cook was awesome but the breakfast part of an 8-hr red eye was disappointing - even LH serves a better continental breakfast on their TATLs. Curious to try EY now to see how they fare...
SQ F lounge definitely has a la carte prior to their night flight. Probably just don't bother for non SQ flight times which is fair enough
The rendang was particularly yummy.
Regarding "Due to Star Alliance regulations" this works out great at Dulles and DTW with LH but not so much at SFO with SQ and then there is Swiss. Whole threads on FT about it.
This is great to know. I have a flight in SQ Suites coming up LHR-SIN and was actually debating whether to go to the UA GFL or the SQ lounge. I think I'll do exactly as you did, having breakfast in the United lounge and then relaxing in the KrisFlyer lounge afterwards.
Does anyone happen to know if SQ escorts their Suites/First pax from lounge to plane at LHR?
That's the idea, actually. Offer wnderwhelming lounges, so discerning mile-bloated over-entitled (in a good way) passengers go to other lounges and keep the lounge overheads low. 🙂
I flew SQ First on 7th Dec 2016 from LHR T2 and used their First Class lounge. They do have an A La Carte menu. I had Nasi Lemak and Hainanese Chicken rice which were pretty good.
With a Lufthansa Business Class ticket without Star Gold status, this lounge, in my opinion, is ways better than the LH Business Lounge. More comfortable and a wider food selection. So, the 10-15 Minutes walk to the A gates were absolutely worth it.