San Diego and Philadelphia lounges?
Dec 25, 2017, 5:54 pm
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San Diego and Philadelphia lounges?
Am travelling on a BA booking from Manchester to San Diego with BA via LHR and return via Philadelphia with AA.
San Diego has an Airspace Lounge and Admirals Club Lounge, any recommendations?
At Philadelphia there are two Admirals Club Lounges in Terminal A and a Galleries Club, I assume Galleries?? Am BA Silver...
Thanks
Tony
San Diego has an Airspace Lounge and Admirals Club Lounge, any recommendations?
At Philadelphia there are two Admirals Club Lounges in Terminal A and a Galleries Club, I assume Galleries?? Am BA Silver...
Thanks
Tony
Dec 25, 2017, 6:29 pm
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Admiral's Clubs have very restricted free food: cheese and veggies basically. The BA lounge at PHL is quite nice, fairly small and can get full though. I'd probably head to BA lounge over the AC at PHL, but since you're flying AA you may have to walk quite a bit from the lounge to your gate: I'd suggest to check before settling down in the lounge.
No idea about SAN.
No idea about SAN.
Dec 25, 2017, 7:30 pm
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Well not quite. There's an Airspace lounge in SAN, there's no Admiral's Club. There isn't any food offering at all with the exception of very basic snack mixes, cookies and apples. Nice enough place with free wifi using the Airspace SSID but that's about it. There is a small bar.
Dec 25, 2017, 7:39 pm
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Well not quite. There's an Airspace lounge in SAN, there's no Admiral's Club. There isn't any food offering at all with the exception of very basic snack mixes, cookies and apples. Nice enough place with free wifi using the Airspace SSID but that's about it. There is a small bar.
Dec 25, 2017, 7:41 pm
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There won't be any food offering in the lounge for the OP traveling to the UK via PHL on AA.
Dec 25, 2017, 8:48 pm
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If you have an Amex platinum card or centurion card, the centurion lounge directly above the BA lounge recently opened and has a very nice food offering though it is likely to be very crowded.
Sometime next year, AA will be opening a flagship lounge at PHL replacing part of their A gates admirals club, which based on the other flagship lounges will have a surprisingly solid food offering as well (somewhere in quality between GF and CCR at LHR).
Sometime next year, AA will be opening a flagship lounge at PHL replacing part of their A gates admirals club, which based on the other flagship lounges will have a surprisingly solid food offering as well (somewhere in quality between GF and CCR at LHR).
Dec 26, 2017, 2:10 am
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If you go to the restaurant in PHL (Left for Gold + 1st and Right for Silver Club) note that you can't get to the restaurant unless you are in 1st or Club. When I was there recently there was a string of people going in but turned away. The sign that lets people know is on the wall "IN" the restaurant.
If it was on the way facing "out" of the restaurant people would be able to see before being refused. If I was you I would get into either one early if possible.
If it was on the way facing "out" of the restaurant people would be able to see before being refused. If I was you I would get into either one early if possible.
Dec 26, 2017, 2:52 am
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Hi GlasgowCyclops, I assume that the restaurant is in the Galleries Club lounge? I have booked a business class ticket with BA but will be flying with AA to Manchester (codeshare), assume I will be able to use the restaurant? I get to PHL around 3pm thus I suspect the Galleries Club lounge will be fairly quiet?
Dec 26, 2017, 2:56 am
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Hi GlasgowCyclops, I assume that the restaurant is in the Galleries Club lounge? I have booked a business class ticket with BA but will be flying with AA to Manchester (codeshare), assume I will be able to use the restaurant? I get to PHL around 3pm thus I suspect the Galleries Club lounge will be fairly quiet?
Dec 26, 2017, 3:09 am
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Rather a long time to be in the lounge! No, as mentioned, the pre-flight meal option is part of the Club World and First products on BA, so as an AA traveller you wouldn't usually get access to the hot food, they have a different product concept to BA. However you're not going to starve on AA and they won't be dimming the lights too soon on the MAN service either, so you may as well eat there. Plus the snack food in the BA lounge isn't that basic: in addition to the sandwiches there are crisps, biscuits, salad items, fruit, cereal bars, dips. But if in the airport for 6 hours then I'd find somewhere in the airport, or even pop into the city itself.