corporate-wage-slave

Welcome to Silver PoincianaKings. Broadly speaking, you can access almost all the lounges in this guide with your Silver card, so long as you are flying BA or a oneworld carrier out of the relevant terminal. Normally you can guest one person. The exceptions are largely obvious, such as Flounge in FRA or where the lounge is not accessible in terms of terminal layout.

LIS' Blue lounge is a typical third party lounge - there are very few BA lounges left in Europe - and you should be able to guest there as well as use it if you are both flying BA, including in ET. You may struggle if you were (e.g.) trying to guest someone when flying Air Berlin and they were flying Iberia or some such, and sometimes guesting can't happen due to overcrowding - that even happens at T5 about twice a year. But if you wanted to use that LIS lounge and you were flying Iberia economy, then that would be fine.

Oaxaca

PMI Update - the A gates have closed for winter, UK flights now departing from D gates (probably until end March 2016), would recommend using Sala Formentor as a result. Very similar to Valldemossa, which is still open but is a longer hike to D gates. Formentor is located underneath the bar/food court area at the D gates.


Known to the locals as Hierbas...not my thing though.

Prospero

Gracias Oaxaca

fartoomanyusers

I couldn't see any newspapers or (non advert) magazines yesterday in the Gibraltar lounge - although they may have been available earlier in the afternoon.

You might want to visit WH Smiths in advance (or stock up in LHR T3 lounge) !

corporate-wage-slave

New lounge insert: Spain / Valencia

VLC Valencia

VLC
Sala VIP Joan Olivert
Airside, just past gate A3

Opening hours:
Daily 05:00 - 24:00 hrs

Access options:
Standard BA/oneworld rules
Priority Pass
Pay on entrance (26.50€)

Food and beverages:
Filled sandwiches (e.g. bacon and cheese) and brioche (e.g. salami), croissants, wrapped pastries, tostados, crisps, nuts, savoury nut mix, peanuts, tinned olives.

Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, Fanta products, iced tea, Spanish bitters, fruit juices (concentrates). still water (Fonta). Coffee machine, hot supply water for tea (note microwave), milk in bottom of fridge. Decaf Nescafé sachets. Water cooler.

Local beers: San Miguel, San Miguel zero alcohol.
Spirits: Limited range including Beefeater gin and Martini products. In wine chiller: La Linea Fino sherry
Local wines: Señor Real white, Tempraillo Rioja
Champagne: none.

Microwave oven available on both floors.

For entertainment and business:
Wifi (poor quality. Can use lounge login on airport's free service too)
Magazines and up to date newspapers in English, Spanish, German and Italian.
Reasonable power provision (Euro plug, no USB).
Big screen television.

Other information:
Lounge is on two floors but the upper floor, which has better seating, is only opened when the downstairs area gets full.
Toilets inside lounge on both floors, no showers.
Note lounge is at one end of the building (zone A), BA's services leave from the other end (zone E) - 5 minute walk. Passport control is (in theory) at the gate while boarding.

Disabled access: ground floor fully accessible and step free, though entrance door opens inwards. Disabled toilet facility inside by reception. Upper floor access is by steps only.
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In summary, a fairly typical AENA provided lounge, with limited facilities. It wouldn't seem worth planning a prolonged visit there.

corporate-wage-slave

Just flagging a potential issue about guesting mentioned in the DUB Dublin T2 Gold Circle (GC) lounge, see this thread:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...-ei-metal.html

As also mentioned in this thread, guesting is not offered to BA cardholders.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/aer-l...s-lounges.html

JohnIreland

And the same for ORK same post as DUB.

No guest even on a BA flight number.

Rami Tamimi

Just a couple of minor corrections to DME/LED lounge entries:

-There is no longer a smoking room in DME lounge;

-The LED lounge is called "Pulkovo Lounge";

-The LED lounge is on the 4th floor (above gates A01/A02) and it is open 24/7;

-I beleive the opening hours are slightly out out of date for the DME lounge. I am not 100% sure about the DME lounge opening hours,but from experience it opens at T-2.40-3 hours before each of the BA/IB departures.It definately opens at 2:35am (for the BA flight) and stays open till IB flight departs at 7:00 before closing for the day. I will check and report back here;

-Also the DME lounge is technically a third party lounge (although it is branded and is exlusive for BA/IB pax),this means that pax departing on any other OW airline (S7,JL,RJ,QR) don't get access;

-Perhaps it would be useful to add an entry for the S7 lounge in DME international departures area? It is not as good as the BA lounge,but is open 24/7,so might be useful for anyone with long ex Russian regions layovers,if they arrive before the BA lounge opens.Also after the recent refurbishment it is also much quieter than the BA lounge for most of the day. Would be happy to contribute to that entry!

Prospero

Many thanks gentlemen for the updates, I'd be lost without your assistance.

I'd be happy to add a slide for the S7 lounge at DME

Rami Tamimi

Thanks Prospero for the edit. The only correction left is the name:It's "Pulkovo lounge" (not Polkovo).

Re:S7 lounge:

Location: Airside,2nd floor,near the Vienna Café and Avialine Shop.
Opening times:24/7
Access:Standard Oneworld rules +Priority Pass (except 10:00-14:00 daily when PP cardholders don't have access)

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The new S7 lounge consitsts of two floors:
1st floor:Limited hot and cold buffet,tea and coffee facilities;mini conference room;bar;seating area;fridge with soft drinks.

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2nd floor:2 Internet work stations with printer/fax facility;Sleeping area with dimmed lighting,6 fully reclinable сhairs (blanket/pillow provided on request),TV,fridge with soft drinks.

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Alcohol (except free beer) is available for a payment from the bar.A la carte dining also available for an extra payment.

Free wifi:ask reception for the password slip.
Magazines and newspapers:mostly in russian (+Moscow Times in english).

Toilets within the lounge;showers are not currently available.

There is also another S7 lounge in the domestic departures area,which is an exact match of the international lounge.

PS:I am not exactly sure yet how to insert the images,rather than links to the post.

Dicksbits

Flew from KRK to LHR tonight and I can confirm that BAEC members still have no access to the new terminal's business lounge. Check-in staff told me the airline don't have a contract with it. Priority pass holders are welcomed.

corporate-wage-slave

This is the only BA lounge access in the Canary Islands, and indeed the only service linked to LHR.

New lounge insert: Spain / Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

LPA Gran Canaria

LPA
Sala VIP Galdós
Airside, upstairs from gate C16 opposite o'Leary's bar
Third party / AENA run lounge.

Opening hours:
Daily 06:00 - 22:00 hrs

Access options:
Standard BA/oneworld rules
Priority Pass
Pay on entrance (23.50€)

Food and beverages:
Filled sandwiches, mini bagettes with ham/salami, fresh cut fruit boxes, yoghurt, biscuits, cana de crema, palmiers, magdalena cuadrada, cake slices, crisps (many flavours), nuts, savoury snacks.

Coca-Cola, Coke Light, Fanta orange and lemon, iced tea, fruit and tomato juices (concentrates). still, tonic and sparkling water (Fonta). Coffee machine from beans, hot chocolate sachets, hot water, very lmited tea bag supply, milk in fridge. Decaf coffee in red sachets.

Beers: Carlsberg, Mahou Sin (alcohol free).
Spirits: Limited range but includes Bombay Sapphire and Beefeater gin
Wines: Rioja Antaño - red and rosé, Tio Pepe, Pata Negra Verdejo Rueda
Champagne: Corodniu Benjamin cava mini bottles.

For entertainment and business:
Wifi (3 mbps down, 2 mbps up).
Magazines and up to date newspapers in English, Spanish, German and Italian.
Limited power provision (Euro plug, no USB).
Big screen television
One open access PC
Fax machine

Other information:
Can get busy at weekends
Smoking terrace outside with good views of the runway and apron.
Toilets inside lounge, no showers. Additional toilets just outside lounge too.

Disabled access: The lounge is on the floor above the main terminal. There is a small lift by the duty free shop which brings you step free to the lounge, and the rest of the lounge is flat tiles throughout. Disabled access toilet in lounge.
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greg5

The country icon for BLL is the one for Switzerland. It should probably be changed to that for Denmark.

Globaliser

For the next iteration of the graphic for HAM, it might be worth noting that access is by escalator or lift between gates C16 and A17, near the Movenpick Cafe.

CMK10

A few updates from OTP:

- The Lounge is the Mastercard Business Lounge though all signs just say "Business Lounge"

- Wifi codes are written on slips of paper in a bowl at the check in desk

- Food selections are limited to basically nibbles and other packaged goods. Alcohol selection is pretty decent though

- Wifi worked well and the seating area was comfortable enough, my gate was 7 which was right out front of the lounge