GVA lounges... [merged Geneva lounge thread]
Jan 4, 2012, 4:10 am
#151
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Thank you, I never knew you could do that! I guess I'll give it a go at check-in and see what kind of bewildered faces I get. Won't I miss out on the whole US immigration 'pre-flight' screening though, possibly causing an issue?
Jan 4, 2012, 9:02 am
#152
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Location: Geneva
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Hadn't fully realized LX22 is the JFK flight
BA could clear your ESTA if your flights are combined under one PNR and maybe even if they aren't. If they don't then it may still be easier at the gate. If you can't OLCI then you'd have to go to checkin probably.
If you are in C then zou can use the priority lane for security.
BA could clear your ESTA if your flights are combined under one PNR and maybe even if they aren't. If they don't then it may still be easier at the gate. If you can't OLCI then you'd have to go to checkin probably.
If you are in C then zou can use the priority lane for security.
Jan 4, 2012, 9:25 am
#153
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Posts: 443
Hadn't fully realized LX22 is the JFK flight
BA could clear your ESTA if your flights are combined under one PNR and maybe even if they aren't. If they don't then it may still be easier at the gate. If you can't OLCI then you'd have to go to checkin probably.
If you are in C then zou can use the priority lane for security.
BA could clear your ESTA if your flights are combined under one PNR and maybe even if they aren't. If they don't then it may still be easier at the gate. If you can't OLCI then you'd have to go to checkin probably.
If you are in C then zou can use the priority lane for security.
Thanks for your help
Where? I have never seen it...
Jan 4, 2012, 12:26 pm
#155
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It is to the far right .... But then you will mix with the "non priority pax" just before you go through the scanners..... Nothing much of a priority lane if you ask me..... But then again, others might have a better experience with the priority lane at GVA...
Jan 4, 2012, 3:37 pm
#156
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It is to the far right .... But then you will mix with the "non priority pax" just before you go through the scanners..... Nothing much of a priority lane if you ask me..... But then again, others might have a better experience with the priority lane at GVA...
One to the far right and another to the far left.
I honestly cannot understand the nothing much of a priority lane remark. It brings you all the way to the front of the line.
GBM
Jan 4, 2012, 3:47 pm
#157
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Make sure to not go through passport control in GVA for your JFK until you actually want to enter LX22. The lounge is BEFORE that checkpoint, I once made the mistake, cleared passport control and was in the gate area with too much time to wait for the flight. I went back "outside" and entered the lounge but I had the feeling the passport agents didn't like that too much 
Feb 11, 2012, 10:06 pm
#160
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I didn't want to start another thread so I'm posting in this one. I'll be flying HNL-(DEN-IAD)-GVA next week and I was wondering if there are shower facilities either in one of the lounges or elsewhere in the airport?
Also, when I leave GVA is the lounge airside? Is the order:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Passport check
4. Lounge
Or is it:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Lounge
4. Passport check
One last question, I'll be staying at Hotel D'Angleterre and plan to get there by taking the train from Geneva Airport Station to Geneva Station. Are there taxis at Geneva Station that will take me to the hotel?
Thank you.
Also, when I leave GVA is the lounge airside? Is the order:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Passport check
4. Lounge
Or is it:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Lounge
4. Passport check
One last question, I'll be staying at Hotel D'Angleterre and plan to get there by taking the train from Geneva Airport Station to Geneva Station. Are there taxis at Geneva Station that will take me to the hotel?
Thank you.
Feb 11, 2012, 11:59 pm
#161
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Geneva
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I didn't want to start another thread so I'm posting in this one. I'll be flying HNL-(DEN-IAD)-GVA next week and I was wondering if there are shower facilities either in one of the lounges or elsewhere in the airport?
Also, when I leave GVA is the lounge airside? Is the order:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Passport check
4. Lounge
Or is it:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Lounge
4. Passport check
One last question, I'll be staying at Hotel D'Angleterre and plan to get there by taking the train from Geneva Airport Station to Geneva Station. Are there taxis at Geneva Station that will take me to the hotel?
Thank you.
Also, when I leave GVA is the lounge airside? Is the order:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Passport check
4. Lounge
Or is it:
1. Check-in
2. Security
3. Lounge
4. Passport check
One last question, I'll be staying at Hotel D'Angleterre and plan to get there by taking the train from Geneva Airport Station to Geneva Station. Are there taxis at Geneva Station that will take me to the hotel?
Thank you.
On departure, for those flights that have a passport check, this is after you leave the main terminal area where the lounges are, so your second one: checki in, pass security, spend time in lounge, then go through passport control before you board.
Taxis are available at the station. They may not like to take you for a 500 meter ride but as it is currently minus 10 C they will.
Jul 13, 2012, 1:52 pm
#162
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Location: PHL
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Geneva Lounges - Are there Showers?
I will be flying into Geneva on UA in F transfering to FRA on LH or LX. I am Stae Gold. Will I be allowed to use the F Lunge and get a shower, or the Senator, and does it have showers?
Thank you
Thank you
Jul 13, 2012, 2:40 pm
#163
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Your Star Gold status gives you access to the Senator Lounge but not to the First Class Lounge since you are arriving on UA in F. Not sure about showers but swiss.com does not mention them.
Jul 12, 2013, 11:46 am
#164
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Location: Wayne, NJ USA
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Which lounge best in Geneva?
Flying Swiss business class GVA to JFK. I am *Gold as is my wife. Also have two children. So each of us could bring one child into the *lounge.
But which lounge is better: I assume all 4 of us can get into the Swiss biz lounge:
a-SWISS Business Lounge Miles & More Frequent Traveller
Business Class
b-SWISS Senator/ Gold Lounge Miles & More Senator/Star Alliance Gold
Many thanks!
But which lounge is better: I assume all 4 of us can get into the Swiss biz lounge:
a-SWISS Business Lounge Miles & More Frequent Traveller
Business Class
b-SWISS Senator/ Gold Lounge Miles & More Senator/Star Alliance Gold
Many thanks!