SAS Lounge Options Washington (IAD)
Aug 7, 2011, 1:48 pm
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May 6, 2014, 9:34 pm
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Perhaps someone should update the SK web site. It's still listing the NW WorldClub at IAD as the lounge used. Of course, with the DL merger several years ago, there is no longer a NW lounge.
May 8, 2014, 4:03 am
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As stated the LH lounge, it's very close to SK's regular departure gate. There is a burrito and sandwich place just a few gates away which provide considerably better food than the lounge however.
May 8, 2014, 9:37 am
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Is the LH lounge the one that is used for Business/Plus pax without *G?
I was on a weekendtrip to D.C. myself in the end of april, and visited the LH Senator lounge on IAD with my EBG-card. As other have mentioned, it's fairly close to the B40/38 gates that SK uses. Nice, but small, lounge. I guess 90% of all seats where taken when I was there. Good (and warm) food, which is a plus - especially when your optiontown-request failed making you stuck in a small SAS go-seat for the next 8 hours...
I was on a weekendtrip to D.C. myself in the end of april, and visited the LH Senator lounge on IAD with my EBG-card. As other have mentioned, it's fairly close to the B40/38 gates that SK uses. Nice, but small, lounge. I guess 90% of all seats where taken when I was there. Good (and warm) food, which is a plus - especially when your optiontown-request failed making you stuck in a small SAS go-seat for the next 8 hours...
May 8, 2014, 9:55 am
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The LH IAD lounge is very popular with the UA crowd: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ad-merged.html
May 8, 2014, 2:44 pm
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The LH IAD lounge is very popular with the UA crowd: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ad-merged.html
Well, UA does not allow us into their crappy lounges if we are flying domestic. And they also cut back their dinner hours. So a 19:00 flight is too late for dinner in F class! Great place to get some food. And it's definitely better than some burrito place in the terminal. It looks like they cut back on the champagne though. A really, really awful sparking wine that was semi-sweet.
May 20, 2014, 6:49 am
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Are you kidding?! The LH lounge -- at least the Senator/First one -- has a great buffet that will satisfy the fussiest meat eater, vegetarian or even vegan. How could a burrito come close to some classic European country dishes? This is the only good thing at all of IAD, given how squalid the UA terminal and facilities are there.
May 20, 2014, 1:14 pm
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Are you kidding?! The LH lounge -- at least the Senator/First one -- has a great buffet that will satisfy the fussiest meat eater, vegetarian or even vegan. How could a burrito come close to some classic European country dishes? This is the only good thing at all of IAD, given how squalid the UA terminal and facilities are there.
May 20, 2014, 2:49 pm
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It's not hard to be better than the SK CPH lounge when it comes to lounge food.
Unless it's strawberry season, the SK CPH lounge food is a default skip-over for me.
I prefer IAD's Chipotle offerings to the food offerings at the LH lounge at IAD. YMMV, but I don't really fancy this lounge's idea of "classic European country dishes". My best use for the lounge: showers.
If someone wants free alcohol when traveling and doesn't want to pay for any food at the airport, well then the LH lounge will certainly have a leg up on that.
Unless it's strawberry season, the SK CPH lounge food is a default skip-over for me.
Are you kidding?! The LH lounge -- at least the Senator/First one -- has a great buffet that will satisfy the fussiest meat eater, vegetarian or even vegan. How could a burrito come close to some classic European country dishes? This is the only good thing at all of IAD, given how squalid the UA terminal and facilities are there.
If someone wants free alcohol when traveling and doesn't want to pay for any food at the airport, well then the LH lounge will certainly have a leg up on that.
May 21, 2014, 8:36 am
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The B concourse SK & LH/OS/SN use in IAD is pretty nice and very different from the ratty concourses UA uses.
May 21, 2014, 2:19 pm
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If you're flying SK business from IAD, you're going to have to eat well before the flight because the meal was atrocious on my flight yesterday. Not to hijack this thread but the quality of product on SK has sunk to new lows, having once offered a pretty good product in all classes! (Now wish I had bought a burrito at Chipotle's to eat on board.)
As to the LH lounge, for the summer at least, it is open through the full day with no lunch shutdown between 11:30a and 1p as reported on the linked wiki.
As to the LH lounge, for the summer at least, it is open through the full day with no lunch shutdown between 11:30a and 1p as reported on the linked wiki.
May 21, 2014, 2:27 pm
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If you're flying SK business from IAD, you're going to have to eat well before the flight because the meal was atrocious on my flight yesterday. Not to hijack this thread but the quality of product on SK has sunk to new lows, having once offered a pretty good product in all classes! (Now wish I had bought a burrito at Chipotle's to eat on board.)
I know that SK has a general problem on some flights in the US with getting proper bread, but that's it.