Originally Posted by
arshi007
Were you denied entry because of the day of travel restriction or the 3 hour rule ? The DEN lounge closes at 9 pm so if your flight is 00:15, that automatically puts it outside of the 3 hour window. What time did you try to access the lounge ? Technically even if they don't apply the day of travel restriction, you wouldn't be able to access the lounge before 9:15 pm given your flight time. Well the lounge will already be closed then.
They were very clear that it was the “day of travel” rule and that there were no circumstances under which anyone on the 00:15 departure could use the lounge. (Presumably if the flight were delayed sufficiently then access would be possible the next morning.)