Originally Posted by
bgriff
It's funny, I would say the LGA CL is exactly par for the course for CL food across the network today ... it's just that CL food across the board is meaningfully less exciting than what was being offered at most CLs 5 years ago. But agree I would not bother with it vs. the LGA SC, especially since the LGA club has some of the best SC food across the network.
If you had access to the new Chase Sapphire lounge, it would be a much tougher choice in terms of amenities, although that lounge is also quickly reaching uncomfortably crowded territory. (Though it has not yet had, but will presumably soon have, the densification-of-seating treatment that so many popular lounges have gone through in recent years.)
In my two stops at the LGA Sky Club, the food was definitely better than what I would have expected in a lounge buffet. I just haven't been able to compare to a CL since I haven't been able to get into one for one reason or another.. mainly due to terminal changes needed landside and/or time constraints.
Interesting thing for me is if I stayed in the Boston metro, I could have re-upgraded my CSP to CSR since BOS has a Sapphire lounge when I regularly used Jetblue in Terminal C, but the downside would have been Terminal B where the lounge is isn't connected airside to Terminal A where Delta is. Similar situation to the Sapphire Lounge in LGA being in Terminal B .. I can't seem to win with these Airline vs lounge locations in the airport lol.
I had a another in ORD where I already had a 3 hour layover and passed on an earlier UA/AA flight out of T1/T2 with no lounge access and stayed in T5's Skyclub for a later Delta flight.