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Old Apr 26, 2026 | 3:37 am
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Originally Posted by LapLap
The upside which counteracts not getting to pre-allocate seats on the BKK-PVG flight is that trip.com allows you to book a lounge with Economy flights at very competitive rates. In this case, and I appreciate it was an anomaly, my Miracle Lounge visit was no more than 1USD (this being apart from the free lounge visit allocations when attaining trip.com status)
I obtained trip.com Diamond status for free, but to "activate" the free lounge pass it says I need to have one hotel booking with them. Do you know if it would work if I just book the cheapest hotel I can find in the world? Obviously I'm not going to actually stay either
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