Originally Posted by
Proudelitist
Unless that quiet bar in the corner has free booze, free food, free showers, free day rooms and a spa, I hardly think it's equivalent. The reason it is sought after and restricted, other than the free stuff, is the protection from the stinking, heaving, hoi polloi waddling through the airport.
Is it so long ago that you can’t remember the time when you had never seen the inside of a lounge? I do like the lounges, but I like to think I am more polite about those people who don’t have access (I just call them the rabble
).