Amazingly generous special offer: AMS Lounge access for only 35!
May 3, 2020, 12:57 pm
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Amazingly generous special offer: AMS Lounge access for only 35!
KLM had reduced the AMS Crown Lounge entry fee for non-eligible pax.
Given that the catering amenities have been reduced to next to nothing, I'm not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to pay for access. As the entire airport is deserted, finding a quiet place to sit should be easy enough, and 35 should be more than plenty to buy something to eat and drink at Grab & Fly.
Johan
Given that the catering amenities have been reduced to next to nothing, I'm not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to pay for access. As the entire airport is deserted, finding a quiet place to sit should be easy enough, and 35 should be more than plenty to buy something to eat and drink at Grab & Fly.
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May 3, 2020, 2:18 pm
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KLM had reduced the AMS Crown Lounge entry fee for non-eligible pax.
Given that the catering amenities have been reduced to next to nothing, I'm not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to pay for access. As the entire airport is deserted, finding a quiet place to sit should be easy enough, and 35 should be more than plenty to buy something to eat and drink at Grab & Fly.
Johan
Given that the catering amenities have been reduced to next to nothing, I'm not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to pay for access. As the entire airport is deserted, finding a quiet place to sit should be easy enough, and 35 should be more than plenty to buy something to eat and drink at Grab & Fly.
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May 3, 2020, 2:36 pm
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May 5, 2020, 3:49 am
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And someone actually gets paid to think about that and take the decision to do that.
I wonder if KLM will make back the investment of this bold decision.
Such a decision proofs that the people who discussed this and took the decision are boventallig.
I wonder if KLM will make back the investment of this bold decision.
Such a decision proofs that the people who discussed this and took the decision are boventallig.
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May 5, 2020, 5:12 am
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Interesting that AMS lounges are still open.
What about Paris? When I left a few hours before the "confinement" the lounge in 2E was open, the full catering was there, but it was served by one of the staff rather than self-service. Everything else in the airport was closed, with the exception of the newsstand.
I think also that in other airports lounges tend to be closed, but not sure.
What about Paris? When I left a few hours before the "confinement" the lounge in 2E was open, the full catering was there, but it was served by one of the staff rather than self-service. Everything else in the airport was closed, with the exception of the newsstand.
I think also that in other airports lounges tend to be closed, but not sure.
May 5, 2020, 7:36 am
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Only the non-Schengen one.
Aspire, BA and Star Alliance lounges also closed.
One of the two Privium lounges remained open for a few weeks, but then it closed too. I'm not surprised, when I visited late March I was the first guest to arrive in several hours, and the only one there for my entire stay.
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Aspire, BA and Star Alliance lounges also closed.
One of the two Privium lounges remained open for a few weeks, but then it closed too. I'm not surprised, when I visited late March I was the first guest to arrive in several hours, and the only one there for my entire stay.
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May 5, 2020, 12:02 pm
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Interesting that AMS lounges are still open.
What about Paris? When I left a few hours before the "confinement" the lounge in 2E was open, the full catering was there, but it was served by one of the staff rather than self-service. Everything else in the airport was closed, with the exception of the newsstand.
I think also that in other airports lounges tend to be closed, but not sure.
What about Paris? When I left a few hours before the "confinement" the lounge in 2E was open, the full catering was there, but it was served by one of the staff rather than self-service. Everything else in the airport was closed, with the exception of the newsstand.
I think also that in other airports lounges tend to be closed, but not sure.
or has something improved since my last visit late March ?
May 6, 2020, 5:03 pm
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KLM had reduced the AMS Crown Lounge entry fee for non-eligible pax.
Given that the catering amenities have been reduced to next to nothing, I'm not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to pay for access. As the entire airport is deserted, finding a quiet place to sit should be easy enough, and 35 should be more than plenty to buy something to eat and drink at Grab & Fly.
Given that the catering amenities have been reduced to next to nothing, I'm not sure why anybody in their right mind would want to pay for access. As the entire airport is deserted, finding a quiet place to sit should be easy enough, and 35 should be more than plenty to buy something to eat and drink at Grab & Fly.
May 14, 2020, 3:42 pm
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I would not at all be surprised if the fact that one of the lounges is still open is due to Sodexo's insistence on their contract being honoured, rather than this being a "decision in KLM" being made by "Dutch people"....it's quite easy to imagine a contract being concluded between the parties that had absolutely no provision for a week- or months-long shutdown as KLM may have done had it been totally in their hands still, as I doubt KLM ever envisaged a scenario in which they would wish Sodexo to shut up for an extended period.
As such, this may be more a "French decision" than a "Dutch decision"...
(Sodexo caters in a lot (if not all?) Dutch prisons, but many of their catering contracts are likely to be inoperative right now, so I would expect Sodexo to push for any cash that it can. If Sodexo insists on still being paid by KLM, then KLM may as well insist that they actually run the lounge for the duration!)
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May 15, 2020, 1:44 am
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May 15, 2020, 1:55 am
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I wonder if Vermaat is responsible for "Blue" (the KLM press release about Vermaat refers to "live cooking" and that "In future, it will also be possible to order and pay for additional premium products in advance"), while Sodexo does the regular slop you don't have to pay for?
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https://news.klm.com/vermaat-to-supp...iphol-lounges/
May 15, 2020, 3:41 am
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I wonder if Vermaat is responsible for "Blue" (the KLM press release about Vermaat refers to "live cooking" and that "In future, it will also be possible to order and pay for additional premium products in advance"), while Sodexo does the regular slop you don't have to pay for?
May 15, 2020, 7:39 am
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