Originally Posted by
LimitingFactor
To answer some of my original questions. We did use the Aspire lounge, we did get a voucher from check-in. The bubbles were chargeable so we didn't have them and the lounge was overall rather uninspiring, although they did have a quite nice curry and rice dish. As a non-OW lounge it didn't seem that status meant anything here.
Very polite :-) It's an absolute dump!
I would avoid it altogether and when I book now I would only choose Gatwick for a price differential. The LHR lounge experience was great, so quite a large gap in the experience for me.