Immediate family
Feb 26, 2012, 7:12 am
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: ARN
Programs: EBG
Posts: 9
Immediate family
Long time lurker, first time poster... Thanks for a great resource for the frequent flyer!
I have a question on SK lounge access policies: I am travelling with my wife, her parents, her brother + his wife. All in all we are six persons. I am the only one with SK status.
Will we be accepted into the SK lounges at ARN and/or LHR with same day SK boarding passes? I can read from the EB pages that the immediate family is accepted, but I can't find any definition of that. I guess we can try with a polite question and a smile, but it would be nice to now what we should expect.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
I have a question on SK lounge access policies: I am travelling with my wife, her parents, her brother + his wife. All in all we are six persons. I am the only one with SK status.
Will we be accepted into the SK lounges at ARN and/or LHR with same day SK boarding passes? I can read from the EB pages that the immediate family is accepted, but I can't find any definition of that. I guess we can try with a polite question and a smile, but it would be nice to now what we should expect.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
Feb 26, 2012, 7:27 am
#2
Join Date: Apr 2009
Programs: SK Eurobonus Silver, DL, AA, AY, US
Posts: 600
Long time lurker, first time poster... Thanks for a great resource for the frequent flyer!
I have a question on SK lounge access policies: I am travelling with my wife, her parents, her brother + his wife. All in all we are six persons. I am the only one with SK status.
Will we be accepted into the SK lounges at ARN and/or LHR with same day SK boarding passes? I can read from the EB pages that the immediate family is accepted, but I can't find any definition of that. I guess we can try with a polite question and a smile, but it would be nice to now what we should expect.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
I have a question on SK lounge access policies: I am travelling with my wife, her parents, her brother + his wife. All in all we are six persons. I am the only one with SK status.
Will we be accepted into the SK lounges at ARN and/or LHR with same day SK boarding passes? I can read from the EB pages that the immediate family is accepted, but I can't find any definition of that. I guess we can try with a polite question and a smile, but it would be nice to now what we should expect.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
In practise... I wouldn't count on it, they might use a different definition there, plus in my experience SK doesn't really know its own policies, I was quite rudely turned down from Scandinavian Lounge access on *A F-ticket, even though there website and customer service clearly indicate access.
Feb 26, 2012, 8:39 am
#4
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: New York
Programs: SK EBD, AA PLT, SPG Gold
Posts: 95
I travelled with wife, two kids, brother and his wife and two kids. We were allowed access into the Scandinavian lounge at ARN with no problems. While we had two *G card holders including one EBG, we only showed one EBG for admission).
Your experience may vary, this is just one data point.
Your experience may vary, this is just one data point.
Feb 26, 2012, 1:22 pm
#5
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: ARN
Programs: EBG
Posts: 9
Thanks for your input everyone. Interesting that the behavior seems quite random. I guess I have to turn on the charm and hope for the best...
I'll try to remember to report back what the results where!
I'll try to remember to report back what the results where!
Feb 26, 2012, 1:39 pm
#6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: CPH
Programs: SK-EBD
Posts: 1,273
But there you could be in the grey zone. I have the impression (from the lounge staff) that in the grey zone, it’s their personal decision, and the lounge load factor at the time could be taken into account.
Feb 26, 2012, 2:44 pm
#7
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Other airline Star Golds don't as reliably get the whole "immediate family" into the SK lounges as SK*G gets -- that is when the whole family is 3 or more persons. Occasional workaround: use refundable tickets booked in the premium cabin for the other passengers.
Feb 27, 2012, 5:10 am
#9
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,935
I can not remember being denied access (as EBG) for my wife and two daugthers in any SAS lounge or any other *A lounge for that matter (UA, LH, NZ, TG and even contracted lounges). The trick is of course to ask nicely - but with confidence.
And have always been welcomed with a smile at the lounges in CPH.
And have always been welcomed with a smile at the lounges in CPH.
Feb 27, 2012, 5:23 am
#10
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: ARN
Programs: EBG
Posts: 9
It seems that wife and kids are typically allowed in the SK lounges for EBG members. I would also assume that since SAS indicates that the immediate family is allowed - I guess you can't get more immediate than wife and kids. However, the little less immediate family (in-laws), seem to be up to the lounge attendants.
If we test it I will report back. However, we're not travelling together for another three months, so it will be a while...
Thanks for all replies so far! If anyone has experience from accessing SK lounges with family members other than wives and kids, I would be interested in your experiences!
If we test it I will report back. However, we're not travelling together for another three months, so it will be a while...
Thanks for all replies so far! If anyone has experience from accessing SK lounges with family members other than wives and kids, I would be interested in your experiences!
Feb 27, 2012, 9:28 am
#12
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: CPH
Programs: SK Diamond *G, LH SEN *G, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 437
I have had my two sisters, my mother and dad as well as my grandmother with me into the Scandinavian Lounge at CPH as well as the lounge at ATH. I have on several occasions had my boyfrind plus one or two friends with me into the lounge at CPH.
It is my experience that at CPH the lounge accepts the rule about the family and actually goes a bit further in accommodating guest, perhaps it has been to the case that the lounge have been more or less empty the times of my visits with family.
It is my experience that at CPH the lounge accepts the rule about the family and actually goes a bit further in accommodating guest, perhaps it has been to the case that the lounge have been more or less empty the times of my visits with family.
Feb 27, 2012, 1:51 pm
#13
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SK at OSLO is the primary place where I have had to play the refundable ticket premium cabin boarding pass game because they make a stink about even U2 children with their own seat. Given I have had four or five *G accounts at the times of the year where I have faced this with immediate family on the same PNR, I could perhaps just add a different *G number for at least some of the passengers, but I don't want my program accounts cluttered with incorrect info in case they mess up the account info substitution.
SK OSL tells me that EBG members are the only *Gs allowed to bring in their immediate family regardless of count.
SK OSL tells me that EBG members are the only *Gs allowed to bring in their immediate family regardless of count.
Feb 27, 2012, 4:59 pm
#14
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: CPH
Programs: SK-EBD
Posts: 1,273
In fact. The (very nice) Swiss lounge at ZRH is the only place (to my knowledge) outside SKs own lounges, where the "immediate family"-rule for G-SK-members is printed in the lounge manual (and carried out that way).
Feb 28, 2012, 1:25 am
#15
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: ARN
Programs: EBG
Posts: 9
I have had my two sisters, my mother and dad as well as my grandmother with me into the Scandinavian Lounge at CPH as well as the lounge at ATH. I have on several occasions had my boyfrind plus one or two friends with me into the lounge at CPH.
It is my experience that at CPH the lounge accepts the rule about the family and actually goes a bit further in accommodating guest, perhaps it has been to the case that the lounge have been more or less empty the times of my visits with family.
It is my experience that at CPH the lounge accepts the rule about the family and actually goes a bit further in accommodating guest, perhaps it has been to the case that the lounge have been more or less empty the times of my visits with family.