Repooc17

It is that simple. You would be landside upon clearing immigration and custom, and you don't have a same day ticket to re-enter.

PTahCha

Yes - you can't get into secured area with next day's BP, unless you are departing early morning (say 1am).

Kacee

And UA will not hold your bags overnight.

Some have reported Polaris access the following day, so you could give it a try.

SFO_LOW_CLOUDS

Yes

Yes

UA_Flyer

Not sure if my experience below is even relevant, but just sharing as a data point:

I often do SIN-SFO-EWR-FLL leaving SIN at 10 pm and arrive SFO at 8 pm on the same day. Pending on transit time, I may or may not use the SFO PL.
After arriving at EWR on the red-eye flight (next day morning arrival), I have no problem access EWR PL, where I ususaly have more than enough time to shower and eat a breakfast before boarding flight to FLL.

UA_Flyer

Thanks. I was focusing on bringing in the guests with the Polaris passenger who has access. I guess I am naive to think a Polaris passenger would guest someone in when he/she is not there.
The current control of checking ID/passport seems ineffective based on the situations described by others in this thread.

Other than SFO PL, i often do not have my ID/passport checked. May be one out five times in other PLs they ask for my ID/passport.

IAH-OIL-TRASH

Seriously, how much of a hassle is it??? It's not stopping "the one in a billion scammer who has a fake boarding pass and non-passport ID" - they might get through. It's stopping the non-fake-ID-holding scammers, which is probably most, if not all, of them.

Doppy

Reported above was not only that they wanted to see ID, but moreover, they were demanding to see passports, not other forms of government-issued ID. With the supposed justification being that people were traveling around with not only fake boarding passes, but fake drivers licenses (fake in the sense of not belonging to the person trying to enter). That just seems like an insane level of delusion that this scam is happening enough to worry about.

What is the hassle? Every time you fumble with your ID there is the chance of misplacing it. I keep my passport, specifically, somewhere it is not likely to get lost or stolen, which is harder to access, and don't want to take unnecessary chances. Especially when some officious clerk demands to not only see the ID, but personally handle it themselves.

Half the time I use Clear, it is not because it is saving me any time (often it is not), but because one less time futzing around with ID is one less risk I'm taking.

I'd rather take the minute chance that there is some guy in the Polaris lounge swilling Jim Beam on a fake boarding pass and ID than be guaranteed to be hassled and take a chance of some mishap with my ID at the start of a trip. The Centurion Lounge check-in carnival is similarly annoying.

I've had occasions at hotels where everyone gets distracted and everyone forgets about the passport before you leave the desk, and believe me it is not a good feeling to realize you don't have your passport later. If you travel enough, eventually you will experience everything that is possible to experience, just by random chance.

The irony of the "hordes of people are scamming their way in to the Polaris Lounge to hit the salad bar" argument is that half the posts in this forum are from people complaining that the food quality in the lounge has declined to the point where it is literally "inedible."

uanj

In this case are you seeing that the last segment BP still says "INTERNATIONAL" on it? I have noticed that when I have a domestic connection which is not same-day with the international trip (either beginning or end) and it does not say INTERNATIONAL I am not getting the beep. In all cases my tickets were booked through as connections but for whatever reasons sometimes that first or last leg BP will not say INTERNATIONAL when it is not the same day as the international flight. Maybe has something to do with the fare consturction.

Until a year ago I was always waved through. But since about August it is a hard NO at SFO or IAD. Again, this is only when when I do not have INTERNATIONAL printed on the BP no problem.

JimInOhio

If some guy from Mongolia shows up at the PL with his driver’s license, how is the lounge agent supposed to know what it is, if it belongs to him, or even if it’s actually an ID? Heck, it could very well be in non-recognizable characters. The agent can read anyone’s passport no matter where they’re from.

moondog

https://www.driverslicenseguide.com/book-intl.html

IAH-OIL-TRASH

I sincerely doubt you turn around and leave if asked for an ID

IMissThe747

Why bother with a convoluted drivers' license verification manual? Would just make getting in take even longer.

Polaris is for international flights, and in nearly all (I said nearly) cases, entrants will have passports. I appreciate efforts to control access. If a person isn't equipped to show their boarding pass and passport to enter an international business class lounge, what exactly were they planning to do to get through immigrations at their destination?

FWIW I usually get asked for my passport each time in SFO. Never in EWR.

moondog

Since nearly all people have passports, minimal time thumbing through reference books is required.

Kacee

Yeah, it really doesn't bother me. "Hassle" is Amex CL, where they require boarding pass, Plat card, and ID.