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BA Lounge Focus | EDI
EDI
Edinburgh International Airport Galleries Club
Location
Airside, opposite Gate 10
Opening hours
Daily, 05:15 until the last flight departure of the day
Access entitlement
Standard BAEC and oneworld rules apply
Food and beverages
Breakfast: a selection of cereals and porridge. Yoghurts, muffins, pastries, and fresh fruit
At noon, the breakfast items are cleared and replaced with mini sandwiches - typically three selections: meat, fish, and vegetarian fillings
A good selection of complimentary beers, wines, spirits, juices, soft drinks, and mixers available throughout the day. Accompanied by Kettle's crisps, McVities mini cheddars, mini pretzels, cheese and crackers, Walkers cookies, shortbread and fruit cake
Coffee machine, selection of Twining teas, and Cadbury's hot chocolate
Champagne: on request
Entertainment and business facilities
Free WiFi. Connection has been dodgy of late
TV area
Five PCs with internet connection and printer
Magazine and newspapers near reception (titles typically include Scotsman, Times, Herald, Financial Times, Telegraph Daily Record, and Daily Mail
Miscellaneous
Toilets located outside the lounge - see diagram below for directions
Seating
A wide variety of settings with quite a good coverage of power outlets. Note, as the lounge is effectively "land locked", it offers no external views
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
I wonder how many BA operated lounges don't have their own toilet facilities?
Bit of a nuisance that.
IST Terraces is one of them that doesn't have washrooms within the lounge. Public washrooms are literally next door however, so it's not too much of a nuisance. They don't seem to get much use by the public, as they are in the basement area with another lounge.
I wonder how many BA operated lounges don't have their own toilet facilities?
Bit of a nuisance that.
Agree. But I was told that BA will move to the bigger ex-bmi lounge by the middle of this year, now closed and which has and will have toilets. The EDI lounge staff thought that the existing lounge would then close.
The old BMI lounge is not beside the usual BA gates, so I wonder if we can also expect a "gate shuffle" to happen. Will Virgin take the current BA lounge I wonder?
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IST Terraces is one of them that doesn't have washrooms within the lounge. Public washrooms are literally next door however, so it's not too much of a nuisance. They don't seem to get much use by the public, as they are in the basement area with another lounge.
Just as well they don't let "the public" into the lounges then!
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The old BMI lounge is not beside the usual BA gates, so I wonder if we can also expect a "gate shuffle" to happen. Will Virgin take the current BA lounge I wonder?
It would make sense. Virgin may not be big enough to justify a lounge of their own but their upcoming partnership with Delta could make a SkyTeam lounge a sensible possibility (not sure on the exact numbers but the 6 Virgin flights a day plus KLM, CityJet and Air France must add up to at least enough PAX to justify a lounge). The only problem then is that the lounge would be in the wrong place for the KLM and Air France departures. Still less of a walk than GF to the domestic gates at Heathrow though!
The bmi lounge was huge (and in the dying days of bmi almost comically empty). There's a bit of me that would be surprised if BA kept both sides (the lounge was subdivided into a 'business' area and a 'Diamond Club' area although the difference was negligible by the end, indeed one half would generally be roped off and there would still be acres of space. Given how long the refurbishment of the old bmi lounge in Glasgow has taken I wouldn't be holding my breath though! Wasn't it meant to open in September? Had bmi hidden old cheese toasties in the ceiling or something?
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And let's not forget that BA Golds now finally have Fast Track access at EDI. It was quite an indignity having to queue up whilst Sleazy Speedies got priority processing.
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Originally Posted by VC10 Boy
And let's not forget that BA Golds now finally have Fast Track access at EDI. It was quite an indignity having to queue up whilst Sleazy Speedies got priority processing.
The old BMI lounge is not beside the usual BA gates, so I wonder if we can also expect a "gate shuffle" to happen. Will Virgin take the current BA lounge I wonder?
Can't speak for the LHR flights, but whenever I flew to LCY from EDI, the gate was always opposite the old BMI lounge
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