Originally Posted by
Truffles
I am thinking of booking LHR-IST-ORD in Business, arriving 17.15 at IST and departing at 14.15 the next day. If I stay in the Yotel airside, what lounge access will I have? I have been caught out before on Asiana where I was not allowed in the lounge at KUL on arrival even though I was not leaving the airport. I am LH Gold if that makes any difference.
There are no landside lounges at Istanbul.
What you could do is to follow signs for Connecting Flights at arrival, enjoy the TK Business Lounge upon arrival. Then head landside, and after checking-out from the YOTEL landside clear passport control and security and head back airside and to the lounge.
As a clarification, you would be allowed to the TK Lounge based on your departure within the next 24 hours rather than arriving in J from London thus only present your IST-ORD boarding pass at Istanbul when entering the lounge.
Another note is that different to Lufthansa's lounge structure, there isn't any premium lounge for *G's that is eqv. to the Senator Lounge, you would be able to use the Miles&Smiles Lounge ( *G lounge ) or the Business Lounge but the offerings at both lounges are totally identical. The only difference is that the M&S Lounge has a cinema room and the Business Lounge has an art gallery with the Business Lounge being less crowded.