Star Alliance lounge Amsterdam AMS
Mar 28, 2019, 10:40 am
#61
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: North-West Europe
Programs: Flying Blue, BA Executive Club, LH Miles & More, Air Asia BigShot, Les Collectioneurs
Posts: 268
Here right now.
70% occupancy, some hot food like: Beef and vegetarian stew with either rice or mashed potatoes. Some bread with cold cuts, a salade bar and 2 types of cookies.
beer-wise it is by the bottle; Heineken, Leffe and ofcourse Warsteiner. On tap; Heineken.
wine: red, where, rosé and prosecco.
lounge is a bit dark, and lacks natural lightning. Also it could do with some “fingerfood”.
It has better F&B than the non Schengen Aspire Lounge 41, but i prefer the latter because of the runway food and little fingerfood they offer.
70% occupancy, some hot food like: Beef and vegetarian stew with either rice or mashed potatoes. Some bread with cold cuts, a salade bar and 2 types of cookies.
beer-wise it is by the bottle; Heineken, Leffe and ofcourse Warsteiner. On tap; Heineken.
wine: red, where, rosé and prosecco.
lounge is a bit dark, and lacks natural lightning. Also it could do with some “fingerfood”.
It has better F&B than the non Schengen Aspire Lounge 41, but i prefer the latter because of the runway food and little fingerfood they offer.
Apr 2, 2019, 12:58 am
#62
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: AMS/RTM
Posts: 2,827
Finally made my way to the new *A lounge in AMS. Overall an improvement over the old aspire lounge, by no means something one should plan extra time at Schiphol for.
It is quiet though, which compared to the usual zoo that is AMS is nothing to complain about.
It is quiet though, which compared to the usual zoo that is AMS is nothing to complain about.
Apr 3, 2019, 7:35 am
#63
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: RTM, CDG
Posts: 180
Was there for the first time last week as well and I completely agree, it's better than the previous lounge but nothing extraordinary (although I do like that it finally has daylight)
Apr 22, 2019, 3:09 pm
#64
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Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 18,005
I travel to Amsterdam often and looking forward to trying this lounge but am a bit confuse to the location. It seems that it is just for European flights. If I am flying to America on United is it easily accessible or would I still use the Aspire lounge?
Apr 22, 2019, 10:24 pm
#65
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: AMS/RTM
Posts: 2,827
The lounge Is in the Schengen area of the Airport. You can enter security at lounge 1 or 2 (which are Schengen), go to the lounge, then proceed to passport control (which is just below the lounge).
Considering the crapshoot that is passport control in AMS I wouldn't really bother, the lounge is not worth missing your flight or having a stroke trying to make the gate on time.
Considering the crapshoot that is passport control in AMS I wouldn't really bother, the lounge is not worth missing your flight or having a stroke trying to make the gate on time.
Jun 13, 2019, 12:50 pm
#66
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,280
Clearing up already at 2000/8 pm
Hi,
Using this lounge for the first time for the I believe last Star Alliance flight out from AMS (the 2120 flight to MUC on LH). To my shock, arrived at the lounge around 2000/8pm and everything was cleared from the buffet.
I was the first to ask and was pointed towards a pathetic bowl of cold rice and a bowl of mashed patotoes. So just grabbed a couple of dry crackers for the cheese (which was still out). A couple of mins later more people started coming and asking about the food - then they brough back out the soup (which I declined to eat anymore since it was I had no idea where it's been).
Complained but faced with a blank stare, but later someone from management/team leader came in and complained. He too admitted it was too early that they started clearing up, not happy as he just apologized but that was it.
Very badly managed lounge in my opinion - since I am not sure how often this happens. [am going to complain to LH too]
Cheers!
Using this lounge for the first time for the I believe last Star Alliance flight out from AMS (the 2120 flight to MUC on LH). To my shock, arrived at the lounge around 2000/8pm and everything was cleared from the buffet.
I was the first to ask and was pointed towards a pathetic bowl of cold rice and a bowl of mashed patotoes. So just grabbed a couple of dry crackers for the cheese (which was still out). A couple of mins later more people started coming and asking about the food - then they brough back out the soup (which I declined to eat anymore since it was I had no idea where it's been).
Complained but faced with a blank stare, but later someone from management/team leader came in and complained. He too admitted it was too early that they started clearing up, not happy as he just apologized but that was it.
Very badly managed lounge in my opinion - since I am not sure how often this happens. [am going to complain to LH too]
Cheers!
Jun 14, 2019, 7:07 am
#67
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: 42mi from AMS
Programs: UA 1K 1MM, Marriott LT Au, Hilton C, IHG PtA
Posts: 576
TK1956 to IST steals the cake though at 23:15, but that is non-Schengen.
Let's see how their early morning spread is tomorrow morning (I'll bring some crackers from home :P )...
Sep 6, 2019, 1:37 pm
#68
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,161
Just looking at this weeks schedules, SAS has their latest flight to CPH around that same time (21:45).
TK1956 to IST steals the cake though at 23:15, but that is non-Schengen.
Let's see how their early morning spread is tomorrow morning (I'll bring some crackers from home :P )...
TK1956 to IST steals the cake though at 23:15, but that is non-Schengen.
Let's see how their early morning spread is tomorrow morning (I'll bring some crackers from home :P )...
Dec 22, 2019, 12:52 am
#69
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: ZRH
Programs: LX HON***, FB Silver, BA Silver, Bonvoy Gold, Hyatt GP, Hertz Gold, GHA Black
Posts: 830
New style lounge which is nice. However it feels like everything else is just basic. Food is stretched out on the buffet space and it is very basic. Sometimes I feel providing nothing is better than big marketing and disappoint people. The biggest issue for me is that there is not shower. How can you build a star lounge without shower facilities. All in all they want to drive a big Mercedes but inside cost cutting drives them to Lada quality. Bad rating to star alliance from me for this one.
Jan 9, 2020, 10:27 am
#70
Join Date: Jun 2016
Programs: aegean gold , klm explorer
Posts: 508
I was here a week ago for the second ams-cph sas flight.
I agree that it has its shortcomings, but its a verry peacefull place. I mean, compared to the klm lounge its verry tranquil.
Had a few pancakes and sat at the swivelingchairs by the Windows. Only true shame is that they didnt clear the building in front of the windows when redoing the panarama terace.
Sat there fueling up on caffeine for hours.
I agree that it has its shortcomings, but its a verry peacefull place. I mean, compared to the klm lounge its verry tranquil.
Had a few pancakes and sat at the swivelingchairs by the Windows. Only true shame is that they didnt clear the building in front of the windows when redoing the panarama terace.
Sat there fueling up on caffeine for hours.
Sep 6, 2020, 4:59 am
#73
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2020
Posts: 471
My impression is both lounge have got the same caterer. Aspire food is typically a subset of the stuff in the *A lounge.