yyzflyalot
May 4, 06, 11:34 pm
I am arriving in Zurich from Hong Kong at 615am. I am then connecting to Milan Malpensa on a 740am flight. As I am staying a new hotel in Milan I am not sure that my room will be ready when I arrive and I have some meetings mid day. Is there nice shower facilities at the Zurich *A lounge and do you think that I will have enough time to use them (fast shower like 5 minutes!).
f0zzyNUE
May 5, 06, 1:32 am
I am arriving in Zurich from Hong Kong at 615am. I am then connecting to Milan Malpensa on a 740am flight. As I am staying a new hotel in Milan I am not sure that my room will be ready when I arrive and I have some meetings mid day. Is there nice shower facilities at the Zurich *A lounge and do you think that I will have enough time to use them (fast shower like 5 minutes!).
i don't know about the *A-lounge in concourse b, but LX has a nice arrival lounge with a couple of showers. the downside is that it is difficult to find if you don't exactly know where it is .
you have to leave for baggage claim in terminal A and after clearing passport control you just have to turn left and walk straight into the lounge. if you tell the lounge-attendant that you will have a connecting flight after your shower she will escort you back through passport control. make sure you to so, because otherwise you have to leave the baggage claim area into the public area and pass security again to get in.
HTH
CHris
p.s. i have done the quick 5-minute-shower-marathon twice arriving from jfk at around 8:25 and having to board my flight to NUE at 8:45 ... i made it with some running from dock e to the arrival lounge and running back to my gate afterwards .... i think i wouldn't have done it if i didn't know where to find this small lounge.
p.p.s. in former times the arrival lounge was for free for business travellers on LX and Swiss Travelclub Mebmers (silver, gold). Basic STC members could access the lounge for a small fee.
here the link to the lounge information (http://www.swiss.com/web/IE6/trip-planner/id-tp-ai-zrh.htm#anchor-9)
yyzflyalot
May 5, 06, 8:55 am
Thank you for the informaton. I will see how I feel when I arrive in Zurich!