Originally Posted by
YuropFlyer
some of the remote airports personal simply have no clue about lounge access rule, got denied access to the lounge (as Gold) first, had to demand a superior at checkin to get my lounge invitation
And at some airports with large numbers of Golds regularly flying (eg. Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Accra) you sometimes don't get access to the lounge as a Gold at all because "there are too many Golds flying today", no matter how much you escalate the issue.