Originally Posted by bgriff

Probably not going to be that exciting for you given your intention to cancel the card already, but one option to overcome the issue of getting the whole family in would be to add your wife as an authorized user, which costs another $175, but would come with the benefit that she would have her own card and could access the lounge even if she was traveling without you, if that's a common occurrence. She would also get most of the other benefits, like hotel and rental car statuses and her own Priority Pass card, and by presenting both cards you'd have enough access to get the whole family in while you're traveling together.

The $175 fee also gets you up to 3 authorized users, so if there were others (parents or something) who you would trust to have as an authorized user on your account and who would benefit from the lounge benefits and other features, you could get further benefit and/or get others to split the costs with you that way.

But yeah if you're primarily looking for SEA and HKG lounge access it may just not be for you. The SEA club is often overcrowded, and IMO the HKG club is not quite to the same quality standards that the US clubs are. (HKG also has a few just-about-as-good Priority Pass lounge options which you could access through the PP card available through various credit cards, though again in most cases you'd need 2 PP cards to get the whole family in for free.)

Originally Posted by mia

Be sure to investigate the International Airline Program during your trial year:

USA International Airline Program (IAP) relaunched as discount benefit (2017).