"Star Alliance Gold card holders and one guest, have access to any lounge around the world that is identified with a Star Alliance Gold lounge sign when departing on a Star Alliance flight, no matter which class of service they travel in. Just look for the Star Alliance Gold sign outside the lounge and present the ticket for your same-day Star Alliance flight, your boarding pass and your frequent flyer programme card featuring the Star Alliance Gold logo. Guests must enter the lounges with an eligible Star Alliance Gold member and must depart on a Star Alliance member airline, but may travel on a different flight."

Does it matter if i put my miles with a star carrier other than my gold carrier? I was once refused access by SQ during 55555 because i was putting the miles with SQ and my gold status was with UA. The projected route is BJS-ICN_SYD on Asiana when the person has gold with CA and wishes to put the miles with UA.

Should not matter. But you will need to show your *G card to get entry to the lounge (as it will not show on the BP).

so it would be safe to put the UA number in the PNR? or safer to leave it out altogether and claim miles retrospectively? I was thinking the person could just leave it out and if challenged, say he hadnt decided which ff prog to put them with yet.

Credit to whatever airline you prefer, it doesn't matter. All you need is the card.

Except in many cases, even though the *A rule is clear, even though the lounge will feature the *A Gold logo and one has the *A Gold card, lounge dragons will direct you to some other lounge. Especially in CDG! But certainly not the unique exception.

*A website should stop making false advertisements.

The OP's case might get tricky if it is a contract lounge instead of a *G lounge.

Last November I was flying LHR-DAM on BD. After hanging out in the BD lounge for a while I wandered over to T2. The LH gatekeepers wouldn't let me in saying I was in the wrong terminal and that you had to be flying in T2 to use your *G rights in a T2 lounge

I assume they were wrong, but I had no proof

Of course they were wrong if you didn�t wanted to enter the SEN lounge as they will you not let you in in LHR.

F.R.