Originally Posted by Threy
Stay within the entrance area, until the next guests comes in and ask him nicely, if he might take your 2nd guest as his guest.
I have done it a couple of times on different airlines after witnessing lounge wardens turn away too many guests.
Thin line for the agents, but in that case, a young well dressed SEN was told that his parents, an elderly couple in their 70`s, cannot enter the lounge with him. Another case I remember was a NWA warden, still during the old DTW terminal days, turning away a KL Silver Wing with his 4-5 year old daugther right in front me. Despite getting the looks from the agent, I was more than happy to help out a fellow traveler spending some hours in the lounge instead of the crappy terminal building.
Normally I appreciate agents playing by the rules, but in some cases, like the two mentioned above, it was simply ridiculous...
^ ^ ^ Very constructive post! My apologies to the OP for being a bit short in my earlier one, I was simply trying to address the question re: paying, but
Threy certainly brings in an additional perspective.
Actually, I have fond memories of the SA F lounge receptionist in Jo'burg - I was travelling with a colleague who was on a completely different airline (and he could not technically invite a guest, either), so I asked the lounge receptionist if it was okay if he and I used the SA C lounge instead. Her response was that they would certainly not accept guests into the C lounge (having visited that lounge later in the year, I can understand why
), and then she allowed him into the F lounge (not the FCT, but not too far below LH's other FRA F lounges - it was a real treat!). So, sometimes, you just get the right person at the right time, and things work out ...