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Do Airport Lounges have time limits ?

Old Sep 23, 2016, 3:57 am
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Do Airport Lounges have time limits ?

If your circumstances meant you had to spend almost 24 hours in an airport, can you spend that much time in the lounge ? have a sleep and shower etc
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Old Sep 23, 2016, 4:09 am
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Originally Posted by Peterpack
If your circumstances meant you had to spend almost 24 hours in an airport, can you spend that much time in the lounge ? have a sleep and shower etc
Depends on the T&C of the lounge, e.g. most of the Priority Pass or independent contracted lounges allow a maximum stay of 3 hours.

For the Gold/Business lounges of airlines you are mostly restricted by their opening hours. A lot of them are not open for 24 hours. Anyhow, if they are it shouldn't be a problem to stay as long as you want if you got in. (most lounges will only let you in with a same day boarding pass)

Anyhow, maximum stay length is hard to enforce once you're in.
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Old Sep 23, 2016, 4:12 am
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Originally Posted by Peterpack
If your circumstances meant you had to spend almost 24 hours in an airport, can you spend that much time in the lounge ? have a sleep and shower etc
Well it all depends on the lounge, obviously most lounges have opening hours so you'd need to stay withing them. Some Priority Pass lounges have a time limit e.g. 3h limit.

You could spend that amount of time in the Turkish Airlines lounge in Istanbul which is open 24/7 and it's sometimes common for TK passengers to have longer than 24h layover which you could theoretically spend in the lounge but TK will give you a complimentary hotel room if your layover is over 10h.

I don't recommend playing the game of excessively booking refundable tickets just for lounge access, once is ok just incase of an emergency.
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Old Sep 23, 2016, 4:12 am
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Originally Posted by fassy
Depends on the T&C of the lounge, e.g. most of the Priority Pass or independent contracted lounges allow a maximum stay of 3 hours.

For the Gold/Business lounges of airlines you are mostly restricted by their opening hours. A lot of them are not open for 24 hours. Anyhow, if they are it shouldn't be a problem to stay as long as you want if you got in. (most lounges will only let you in with a same day boarding pass)

Anyhow, maximum stay length is hard to enforce once you're in.
Looks like we ere typing at the same time lol!
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Old Sep 23, 2016, 4:18 am
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Depends on the lounge.

With airline lounges it is probably impossible. Either you're restricted by opening hours or entrance is restricted to passengers holding same-day departing tickets.

Moreover, I don't see the reason to spend more time at the lounge, than necessary. Sure, it's a nice distraction before the flight. But once you stay for longer periods (>3H), it gets boring rather quickly.
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