Best Lounge in GIG (Rio de Janerio)?
Sep 3, 2015, 5:40 am
#63
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Elmira > Taiwan > Elmira
Programs: Delta, Continental, United, USAir, Marriott, Best Western, Super 8, Holiday Inn
Posts: 47
Well, it's almost dead on 11 months before The Games start, so they need to get moving. Buildings like airport terminals are very complicated internally, particularly in this age of computerization. Lots of systems to install and check out.
Thanks for the photo...
Thanks for the photo...
Sep 6, 2015, 11:13 am
#64
Join Date: Nov 2007
Programs: Flying Blue, BA Exec Club, Hilton Honours
Posts: 14
BA Lounge at Rio de Janeiro
I'll be checking in early in December - I hear mixed opinions about the lounge (SEA) used by BA, Tam. Anyone have recent experience - is it comfortable, is there reasonable food, and drink or should I eat before going to check in? This will be my first - and probably last - time through this airport, leaving on a BA flight and I want avoid being stuck in a lounge with poor facilities.
Oct 17, 2015, 10:36 am
#66
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 29
If one thinks the international terminal (T2) at GIG is a dump they didn't visit it before. Or see T1 now (largely an outdated ghost town except for Gol check-in counters). We used the lounge at GIG in June, before taking an AA biz class flight to JFK. Not bad. If you arrive at GIG, however, there ain't much. I hear even the small Am Ex Centurion Lounge. We had a long layover before a flight to FOR, after our overnight flight from JFK, so got a room at the airport hotel (the one inside the airport, not the Linx just outside). Old, dated, and no windows, but we just wanted to shower and sleep. And get something to eat (decent restaurant). It suited our purposes at this time.
Oct 17, 2015, 10:37 am
#67
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 29
If one thinks the international terminal (T2) at GIG is a dump they didn't visit it before. Or see T1 now (largely an outdated ghost town except for Gol check-in counters). We used the lounge at GIG in June, before taking an AA biz class flight to JFK. Not bad. If you arrive at GIG, however, there ain't much. I hear even the small Am Ex Centurion Lounge has moved inside security (competing with much better airline clubs).
We had a long layover before a flight to FOR, after our overnight flight from JFK, so got a room at the airport hotel (the one inside the airport, not the Linx just outside). Old, dated, and no windows, but we just wanted to shower and sleep. And get something to eat (decent restaurant). It suited our purposes at this time.
We had a long layover before a flight to FOR, after our overnight flight from JFK, so got a room at the airport hotel (the one inside the airport, not the Linx just outside). Old, dated, and no windows, but we just wanted to shower and sleep. And get something to eat (decent restaurant). It suited our purposes at this time.