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Feb 21, 2024 | 2:09 am

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csycsycsy

Join Date: Jul 2022

Location: Madrid

Programs: IB Platino / OWE. Mucci (de Barajas)

Posts: 3,149

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Originally Posted by csycsycsy

Hello,

Doing some homework and it seems like MU had 119 and 137 lounges in S1, FT post in 2019 suggests 119 is for STE+ in Y and 137 is for J/F.
A recent-ish Chinese SM posts suggest 119 is closed, pax sent to 137, which collaborates with FindingFoodFluency's post saying they also entered 137 as STE+.
Has anyone else been to 119 before it was closed, was it much inferior to 137?
Edit: answered https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/31805753-post57.html

OT, I was in T1 in 23Dec and noticed 36 Lounge had "Sky Priority" branding, I thought SP had nothing to do lounge access?
FindingFoodFluency's post of 137's entrance has no SP branding.

My MU flight to MAD used T1 gates instead of S1, but had enough time to take the shuttle to check out the S1 lounges (10min to get from 36 to 137 door to door).
119 still closed and all eligible pax still sent to 137.
Expected 137 to have better F&B than the plebeian-non-platinum side of 36, but it's the same offerings, and no LNY specials.
Not quite LHR T5B where the offerings are better than T5A biz as it's a combined lounge for OWE/OWS.
The airport ran 39/135 (via priority pass) actually had more food options, but more crowded.
Overall not that impressed, particularly since MU has the lounge 77 (in name) that is better than 36/137 that MU pax actually uses...

Speaking of LHR, for PVG the shuttle from departures area of S1 to T1 uses the same shuttle as arrivals S1-T1 but segrated into its own mini area. Whereas in LHR from T5B/C one can't take the shuttle back to T5A departures.

Last edited by csycsycsy; Feb 21, 2024 at 2:15 am

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