Originally Posted by
dpark74
Took us a while to actually find it last month - and as we had checked in online with no bags, no one had given us the code to get in. (We walked in behind some other people eventually). It was full, there was no Wifi, no staff, but there was a fridge with some wine and other drinks. Pretty dire.
There was wifi when I was there a couple of months back. Might have been the airport's wifi. To get the code, you ask the proprietor of the bar next to the lounge.
Originally Posted by
PoincianaKings
Thank you to MARCCB for pushing this thread back up onto page 1...I am going through BOD next month and was planning on getting there a bit earlier to check out the lounge. Now not going to either bother! And there was me thinking the TLS lounge was pretty bad.
It is okay for twenty minutes or so. The rest of the airport isn't much better (unless you want to buy stuff) but the airport's quite light and airy place, whereas the lounge (and indeed baggage claim) manages to feel as though it were in a different structure constructed about forty years before the rest of the airport. My experience was worse because one guy insisted on having a very loud telephone conversation in Spanish for most of my time in the lounge.
One of the worst parts of the lounge, beyond the dire food selection, fellow lounge mates and uncomfortable chairs, is that the route to domestic/intra-Schengen baggage claim goes past the lounge's floor-to-ceiling full length window, which otherwise gives you a good view of the airfield (through another window on the far side of the baggage claim corridor).
So if, as I did, you arrive early and are the only one in the lounge, you get a lot of odd looks from the deplaning passengers walking past you on the other side of the glass. It feels a bit like being in a zoo!