KDS777

The shower tangent is getting silly.

If you need to be in a specific physical and mental state for a certain known event at a particular time and day, take the flight that allows you to do so.

It's not the airline's responsibility to provide you with quasi-hotel facilities at N/C at any terminal, and doing so certainly does nothing for your already accelerated burnout going forward. I traveled weekly for almost 6 years, and never once had to put myself in the situation being discussed here.

milepig

Xyzzy

THIS!

Just like Lufthansa has three levels of lounges, UA now has two -- and it nly sells memberships to the bottom level.

CDSEA

I believe you're using my quote out of context. I was trying to make the point that there are multiple solutions to the "shower requirement" for non business class passengers (which I find silly) aside from just giving access to a Polaris lounge.

IAH-OIL-TRASH

VoiceActor

Gah. Yes. Thank you for finally understanding my post. I don't need access to a Polaris lounge. I don't want access to a Polaris lounge. I don't feel I should have access to a Polaris lounge unless I'm flying Polaris. This is NOT about my wanting to get into a Polaris lounge. Had United built out a Polaris lounge at EWR I would happily pass it by on my way to one of the 2 regular UC in C. BUT, United took a regular lounge out of commission permanently, thereby crowding the remaining one to the point where members who've spent hundreds of dollars a year for access can't get in. THAT is what my issue is. Maybe what IAH....stated will play out that way and half the upstairs lounge will empty out when Polaris is in full swing. We'll have to see. Meanwhile, I feel UC may not hold the value for me it had previously and was hoping for suggestions on other options.

Thank you. It appears you have to have Silver *A at a minimum on the *A website. You're not able to search unless you select a status. I'll check out lounge buddy. My first flight in Jan this year I did get access to the SWISS lounge in Zurich on my way to EWR without status. No *A at AGP or MAD. Interestingly, AGP has an arrangement with SWISS but even though I flew into AGP on Polaris via a connection in ZUR on SWISS they wouldn't let me in the lounge to freshen up. They said lounge access was only for DEPARTING business class flights, not arrivals.
I have 4 hours in MUC on the way to MAD later this week and am hoping to find something there.

spin88

I've asked, and the showers are at SFO because Delta is putting them into all clubs that have "DeltaOne" service. SFO gets DeltaOne from JFK, so it has showers. As to who uses them? It is mostly those on red-eye flights out of SFO and some early arrivals into SFO (who left JFK, ATL, etc early in the am and slept on the plane).

There is some connecting traffic, but not that much, mostly because there is no inside security transfer at SFO from T1 to the A gates, so you have to go outside of security and change terminals. I would expect connecting traffic to pick up some when the New T1 and airside connector open up c2021.

IAH-OIL-TRASH

katan

To further reinforce these points, all of us had to suffer the UC decline while Polaris was being built. The fact you can use Polaris today is not material. As a *G and UC Member, I have extreme difficulty with how they handled the migration. But as someone who usually flies Polaris, I will go in there and expect that they maintain the high standards for access. None of us are winners during the period of UC capacity reductions to support the transition to Polaris.

HNLbasedFlyer

Have you actually been to the EWR UC lounge the past few days after Polaris opened? I was there about 1pm to about 2:30pm the other day going back to SF and it didn't seem crowded to me (although I never really found it packed when I went pre-Polaris) - but I don't know the peak times.

When do people not get in?

VoiceActor

I was there end of April and was handed a VOUCHER to leave the club and go to a restaurant because they were over capacity. I went in anyway and fortunately snagged one of those booth/desks just as someone was leaving. The lounge was PACKED. I didn't even go up to the bar because it was 2/3 people deep all across. I was there in March and while it wasn't as packed as in April it was still very full. Same in January. I'm off end of this week again and will see if Polaris opening has made a difference.

IAH-OIL-TRASH

theboss7593

EWR is my home airport so I've been in every lounge here (except Polaris since it just opened). While Arts and Lounge isn't a pretty lounge, they are always serving hot food, usually 4 choices and have a self serve bar. (also a bartender if you want). I always get a steak burrito from Currito's the best FAST FOOD burrito money can buy (I've been to MMEX and KSAT) many times so I know a good burrito. (blows Moe's, Chiplote and Qdoba out the water by 10 miles) and walk in with my PP membership have myself a nice drink and relax. Yeah I have to clear security after but it's not a bad club by any stretch. I think Delta's lounge takes the cake at EWR domestically.

SS255

LAX is the exemption during the Polaris build, but we sure took it in the shorts for about 18 months while the new UC was being built. I recall that when the new LAX UC was first announced, it was going to include showers and a Global First lounge. Then the plans changed. GF was killed, and the showers never materialized. By the time the LAX Polaris Lounge opens, it will probably be around 3 years since the demise of the LAX GF lounge, and the beginning of all construction.

At least we do have the option of using the *A lounge at TBIT if we are not flying Polaris and really want a shower!

uastarflyer