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Old Sep 17, 2021 | 1:57 am
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Lennys26v2
 
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: SRQ, AMS, AGP
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Any suggested LoungeBuddy alternatives?

The short question:
Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to LoungeBuddy for finding lounges during my travels? What I am looking for is:
  • Based on my travel/airport plans, and lounge associations (PP, Amex Centurion, LoungeKey, Credit Cards, etc), what lounges are available and accessible?
  • Easy trip adding. TripIt Import would be great, but any sort of easy trip import would be helpful.
  • A simple interface. I don't need bells, whistles, messaging, notifications, naming of my first born, or a free cup of coffee waiting in my Uber which is integrated to my alarm clock.
  • I am also not looking to "purchase" additional lounge access, although understand that this may be part of any app.
  • Optional: Lounge photos/recommendations/opinions

The longer rant:
I started as an active user of the LoungeBuddy app (iOS) many years ago, probably when it first came out. Initially I found it to be absolutely untouchable - the best thing since sliced bread! It was easy to use, adding/importing trip data was a piece of cake, it was error free in as far as its data and functionally and the interface was really well designed, simple and clean. It was an absolute staple of my travel toolkit and I highly recommended it.as often as I could.

Since the [original] revamp of the UI (now several years ago, to be fair) - and unrelated to the AMEX acquisition - it has gone down hill tremendously to the point that I actively dislike it now and rarely, if ever open it. Opening the app again this week (after limited use in the past 2 pandemic years) and see that the UI has been changed again with the TripIt import which has not worked in years finally removed (despite several years of support saying "we are working on it"). The new UI is poorly done, confusing and unclear. There is no way to easily import or upload trips, and adding them manually is slow, buggy and required way too much swiping and scrolling.

I am really, really disappointed that it has gone from one of my main tools, to something that I am now going to remove.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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