MSP - Best Lounge options
Nov 21, 2019, 9:04 am
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The PGA lounge still serves from Ike's menu, including hot breakfasts to order, bar snacks, burgers and other sandwiches, and about four dinner main courses, including steak and salmon. The current entrance is between the new restaurant and the construction zone; it looks like the same staircase that was used previously.
The new restaurant underneath is open now and seems like a more trendy version of Ike's in that it advertises hot breakfasts and later looks like a locally sourced steakhouse.
People's Organic is still under construction.
Indeed French Meadow seems to be gone from the food court. RIP
The new restaurant underneath is open now and seems like a more trendy version of Ike's in that it advertises hot breakfasts and later looks like a locally sourced steakhouse.
People's Organic is still under construction.
Indeed French Meadow seems to be gone from the food court. RIP
Dec 20, 2019, 8:50 pm
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PGA lounge
A Yelp reviewer recently wrote that they have opened a new kitchen and that the "breakfast tacos were awesome"
Anyone know what restaurants will accept the $15 credit?
Anyone know what restaurants will accept the $15 credit?
Dec 21, 2019, 2:14 pm
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I really enjoyed that UC. Almost empty every time I've been there. Sadly, the new rules requiring UA boarding pass to access it means I likely won't see the inside of it again...
Dec 21, 2019, 2:21 pm
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Dec 24, 2019, 10:05 pm
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As a lifetime United Club member, and current Platinum, this change also really boils my blood. I’m much more likely to favor the competition going forward because they did not honor their end of the deal.
Dec 25, 2019, 12:22 pm
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Do you happen to have any materials from when you signed up for the lifetime membership? I wonder if they're complying with their own T&C.
Dec 26, 2019, 9:55 am
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Yeah, that sucks. I'm not a lifetime member, just using Chase CC to access, and I'm mildly miffed -- but I'd be irate in your position. I also wonder what this means for UCs at airports with little UA ops ... who will still access these clubs?
Dec 26, 2019, 11:23 pm
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Dec 27, 2019, 12:36 am
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Dec 27, 2019, 9:43 pm
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Standard fortress hub situation: the other majors have a few flights to their hubs, but not much else. They tacitly agree not to compete to/from the others’ fortresses.
Dec 27, 2019, 9:58 pm
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I am a regular at the MSP UC, so much so that I actually got a Christmas card in the mail this year from the “MSP United Club Team”. For me, the existence of that UC is one of the things keeping me from defecting to Delta. Put differently, if United were to abandon that club, I think that would tip me over the edge to defecting. It also differentiates United from American (which has no club at MSP).
Dec 27, 2019, 10:10 pm
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IIRC the UA lounge at MSP was opened (or at least planned) before MSP had PP options. Before then, the only lounges at MSP were PMNW and then DL operated. There still aren't any lounges at all in T2, although flying some carrier other than DL from T1 now potentially gives the choice of PGA (PP) or Escape (AmEx Plat card etc.).
Jan 22, 2020, 3:16 pm
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