Visit lounge 52 while on Schengen flight Schiphol

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Sep 18, 2018, 7:16 am

TLSpace

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Visit lounge 52 while on Schengen flight Schiphol

I always assumed one could not visit the non-Schengen part and thus lounge 52 while on a Schengen flight out of AMS. But I read on a different forum here in the lounge thread that it is in fact possible. Does anybody have experience with this?

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Sep 19, 2018, 12:14 am

Xandrios

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Access the lounge - probably possible. Accessing the terminal where the lounge is located...very difficult if you do not have a flight arriving or departing there.

From landside, with a shengen boarding pass chances are the automatic gates are not going to allow you to enter the security check for non-shengen. Maybe you can first enter Shengen and then go through passport control to enter non-shengen..

Sep 19, 2018, 2:14 am

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The 52 lounge is currently under renovations. As such, it has half less seats, is often almost full, and the catering is even worse than at the Schengen lounge (while the offered canteen is the same!).

Sep 20, 2018, 12:01 pm

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As indicated maybe you could move via passport control from Schengen to non-Schengen and visit lounge 52. But why bother? Takes a lot of time (you have to go back through passport control) and the lounge at Schengen is as good or bad as the non-Schengen one, certaintly during renovations. Side remark - why is this under AF and not KLM?

Sep 24, 2018, 2:41 am

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Definitely not worth the hassle. The offer is strictly the same as in the Schengen Lounge.

Sep 24, 2018, 4:55 am

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Originally Posted by olivedel

Definitely not worth the hassle. The offer is strictly the same as in the Schengen Lounge.

Agreed, but there is one thing you can only do in lounge 52: Huisje deals!

Oct 10, 2018, 10:45 am

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you ca easily move between the two, just need to show your passport the get through. I once went S to NS and back to S when I was meeting someone. Just explained this to passport control who probably thought I was mad

Oct 12, 2018, 11:22 am

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Originally Posted by Dougy Giro

It's a hit or miss, depending on the immigration officer on duty. I once had to move from S to NS to get a vaccination in the travel clinic that's based in the NS area and the really pushed me in getting the vaccination landside instead of airside, having me to pass through security again. I need to admit that passing security sometimes goes way faster than passing border control at AMS, but probably this very immigration officer would also have advised going landside for meeting someone.

If the e-gates are working and you have a passport with a chip you can easily go from S - NS and vv.