Worth accessing Centurion lounges after United Polaris rollout?
Feb 6, 2018, 12:06 pm
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Worth accessing Centurion lounges after United Polaris rollout?
This question is probably largely only relevant to people like me who fly United internationally quite a bit.
One of the biggest reasons for me holding the Platinum card is the Amex lounges.
Was looking at the Polaris Lounge roll-out and a lot of these cities overlap with Centurion clubs now. SFO, IAH, EWR Polaris Tracker - Desktop Also additional cities too like LAX
Anyone else who flies United a lot thinking of dropping the Platinum card down the road since the Polaris Lounges appear to rival Amex clubs to a large degree
One of the biggest reasons for me holding the Platinum card is the Amex lounges.
Was looking at the Polaris Lounge roll-out and a lot of these cities overlap with Centurion clubs now. SFO, IAH, EWR Polaris Tracker - Desktop Also additional cities too like LAX
Anyone else who flies United a lot thinking of dropping the Platinum card down the road since the Polaris Lounges appear to rival Amex clubs to a large degree
Feb 6, 2018, 12:36 pm
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Posts: 3,026
This question is probably largely only relevant to people like me who fly United internationally quite a bit.
One of the biggest reasons for me holding the Platinum card is the Amex lounges.
Was looking at the Polaris Lounge roll-out and a lot of these cities overlap with Centurion clubs now. SFO, IAH, EWR Polaris Tracker - Desktop Also additional cities too like LAX
Anyone else who flies United a lot thinking of dropping the Platinum card down the road since the Polaris Lounges appear to rival Amex clubs to a large degree
One of the biggest reasons for me holding the Platinum card is the Amex lounges.
Was looking at the Polaris Lounge roll-out and a lot of these cities overlap with Centurion clubs now. SFO, IAH, EWR Polaris Tracker - Desktop Also additional cities too like LAX
Anyone else who flies United a lot thinking of dropping the Platinum card down the road since the Polaris Lounges appear to rival Amex clubs to a large degree
Feb 6, 2018, 5:42 pm
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That being the case then I would go to the UA lounge. Otherwise, until UA improves their product it's Centurion lounge for me.
Feb 9, 2018, 9:16 am
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Polaris lounges (well, the one that exists now) have incrementally worse food (did not try the wine/booze, but expect Centurion to be the winner here), and are incrementally less crowded. As you know, the access rules are different for Polaris and Centurion. I don't see Polaris as a reason to drop Centurion (although crowding might be).
Feb 14, 2018, 5:51 am
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Join Date: Feb 2014
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Polaris lounges (well, the one that exists now) have incrementally worse food (did not try the wine/booze, but expect Centurion to be the winner here), and are incrementally less crowded. As you know, the access rules are different for Polaris and Centurion. I don't see Polaris as a reason to drop Centurion (although crowding might be).