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Lewis42 Mar 16, 2016 7:48 am
ORD Lounge
 
Hey Folks,

I will be having a layover of about 5 hours in the not too distant future in ORD before I fly to IST on Turkish Airlines.

I am *G and flying J on TK so I have a large choice of lounges. Which do you recommend is best? I like good food and comfortable seats.

ORDnHKG Mar 19, 2016 10:42 pm
Originally Posted by Lewis42 (Post 26340523)
Hey Folks,

I will be having a layover of about 5 hours in the not too distant future in ORD before I fly to IST on Turkish Airlines.

I am *G and flying J on TK so I have a large choice of lounges. Which do you recommend is best? I like good food and comfortable seats.
I am not sure what do you mean by "large choice of lounges", you do realize in ORD when TK departs at T5, there are only two lounges available to you right ? Either LX or SK, both are small and very basic. TK may have a contract lounge, but that contract lounge is operated by WFS share by a bunch of airlines, which is even worse than LX and SK lounge, as WFS is not even an airline, it is a company handle ground operations like check in, gate, and luggage.

Lewis42 Mar 20, 2016 7:10 pm
ugh, you're right, my mistake.

Do you have any you recommend?

FT Guest xyzpdq Mar 21, 2016 7:50 am
As SK has two flights leaving at 1945 and 2205 - the small lounge is very crowded especially aroun 19h - stay out of the SK lounge around that time

UA1K_no_more Mar 21, 2016 8:28 am
Same question asked three weeks ago.
My reply in that thread:
Originally Posted by UA1K_no_more (Post 26262512)
TK uses the Swissport lounge: http://www.flychicago.com/OHare/EN/A...e-Lounges.aspx
Swissport lounge review

There are also Swiss/Austrian and Scandinavian lounges that you could access as a *A member, but the Scandinavian lounge would be awfully crowded since the TK flight is scheduled right between the two SK flights (one to ARN, one to CPH), and they'd most likely claim there's no room and refer you to the Swissport lounge even if you are *A Gold.
The Swiss/Austrian lounge closes after the Zurich flight leaves at 7pm.

KLouis Mar 22, 2016 12:32 am
Last time I visited these lounges (~3 years ago) I thought the LX/OS one was a little better than the SAS one. Mind you, it is also further away from the gates usually used by TK (~10 minutes walk, vs. 5 for the SAS one).

goodeats21 Mar 25, 2016 3:05 pm
Yes, have to agree about Swiss lounge. Visiting for the first time now.
Very small. Pretty limited offerings for food. Cold stuff only at 4pm prior to Austrian 5pm departure.

goodeats21 Apr 3, 2016 6:33 am
Some pics of the ORD Terminal 5 Swiss Lounge in my trip report. Link to specific post is here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/26412041-post2.html


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