EZE Lounges
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EZE Lounges
We'll be flying out of EZE on LATAM in business class following a cruise and I expect we will have a long time in the airport before our flight. Is either the Admiral's Club/Iberia VIP Lounge or LATAM VIP Lounge noticeable better?
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LA lounge is much more pleasant than the AA lounge. But go to both with all that time. One gets quite noisy and overcrowded in the evening, and even though that same one has warm food items, once you taste them, you'll want to spit most of the items out.
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Thank you.
Cruise ships require us to be off by 9:00 AM and, unless I can find a tour that takes most of the day, time at the airport will be exceedingly long. The ship offers a short tour/transfer but that gets us to the airport at 1:30 and our flight is 9:35. I am looking at options but a full day (7-8 hour) tour costs about $600. So unless I can find someone also on the cruise, we will have about 8 hours to kill. With any luck, I will find someone to share a tour and we can arrange to get to the airport around 5:00.
Surprising (and disappointing) about the quality of the food. I remember from previous trips that the food was quite good. I expect anything related to airlines to fall a bit below that standard, but still edible. I guess I have to lower my expectation of food on the LATAM flight to Miami.
My experience has been that most airlines have a mystical 3 hours before flight time limit to check bags but I am hoping that it might be a little longer in South America as the pace of life there seems a little slower than in the US.
Cruise ships require us to be off by 9:00 AM and, unless I can find a tour that takes most of the day, time at the airport will be exceedingly long. The ship offers a short tour/transfer but that gets us to the airport at 1:30 and our flight is 9:35. I am looking at options but a full day (7-8 hour) tour costs about $600. So unless I can find someone also on the cruise, we will have about 8 hours to kill. With any luck, I will find someone to share a tour and we can arrange to get to the airport around 5:00.
Surprising (and disappointing) about the quality of the food. I remember from previous trips that the food was quite good. I expect anything related to airlines to fall a bit below that standard, but still edible. I guess I have to lower my expectation of food on the LATAM flight to Miami.
My experience has been that most airlines have a mystical 3 hours before flight time limit to check bags but I am hoping that it might be a little longer in South America as the pace of life there seems a little slower than in the US.
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Thank you.
Cruise ships require us to be off by 9:00 AM and, unless I can find a tour that takes most of the day, time at the airport will be exceedingly long. The ship offers a short tour/transfer but that gets us to the airport at 1:30 and our flight is 9:35. I am looking at options but a full day (7-8 hour) tour costs about $600. So unless I can find someone also on the cruise, we will have about 8 hours to kill. With any luck, I will find someone to share a tour and we can arrange to get to the airport around 5:00.
Cruise ships require us to be off by 9:00 AM and, unless I can find a tour that takes most of the day, time at the airport will be exceedingly long. The ship offers a short tour/transfer but that gets us to the airport at 1:30 and our flight is 9:35. I am looking at options but a full day (7-8 hour) tour costs about $600. So unless I can find someone also on the cruise, we will have about 8 hours to kill. With any luck, I will find someone to share a tour and we can arrange to get to the airport around 5:00.
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Thanks. I appreciate the information and suggestions.
I'm hoping to find at least 2 people to share. I'll pay $300 or so to avoid 4 hours sitting in the airport with luggage, but not $600. I considered the hotel option and it is not out of the question. One issue there is that I expect we could not check in until about noon or later so we'd have to deal with that. But if by spending a little more we can get a full-blown tour and get to the airport around 5:30 or so, that would be my preference.
I'm hoping to find at least 2 people to share. I'll pay $300 or so to avoid 4 hours sitting in the airport with luggage, but not $600. I considered the hotel option and it is not out of the question. One issue there is that I expect we could not check in until about noon or later so we'd have to deal with that. But if by spending a little more we can get a full-blown tour and get to the airport around 5:30 or so, that would be my preference.
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I'd go for a day rate at a relatively inexpensive hotel to use as a place to drop bags and shower, ideally in a neighborhood where you want to walk to sightsee so that you can return easily to relax whenever you want. You do not want to risk being forced to spend hours landside at EZE and even hopping between several lounges (there's also an AmEx Centurion lounge in the SkyTeam area of the EZE airside terminal) would be a very boring and frustrating way to spend a day.
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Thank you for the kind offer. We are getting off a cruise ship and taking a full day tour that ends at the airport at 18:00. So we should not have too long to wait until we can check in and go to thelounge(s).