Originally Posted by
morphogencc
I'm arriving at IAH in J (on ANA) without a connecting flight; is there an arrivals lounge I can use? Or a way to get back into the terminal and use a United Club? I'm in Houston for around 24 hours but my flight is technically the next day, so I won't have a departing boarding pass on my day of arrival -- just the arriving one.
you need a onward boarding pass to get back airside.
but this is moot in your case ("A boarding pass for travel in business class on a Star Alliance member airline"): "customers may only access a United Club location at the departure airport for their business class flight."
source:
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...ge/access.aspx
you could maybe buy a fully refundable first class ticket to mexico city or something? but no clue why you'd schlep like this just to get into a united club.
letter of the law you are out of luck but i can imagine you can find a sympathetic agent in iah.
why not get the sheraton iah, clean, very nice indoor and outdoor pool, and sometimes is less than $100 a night. or find an air bnb in museum district and you can spend the day walking around