LHR Revivals Lounge access with a SkyMiles award ticket?
Feb 10, 2017, 6:35 pm
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LHR Revivals Lounge access with a SkyMiles award ticket?
It's been 22 years since I last flew VS (and 23 since I last flew VS in UC), so I'm a newbie around this neck of the FT woods.
I've recently used DL SkyMiles to book UC tickets for BOS-LHR for next June. I see that our G fare class doesn't qualify for ground limousine transfers (which is understandable), but does it qualify us to use the Revivals Lounge on arrival? I remember that, in the early years of LHR arrivals lounges (in the '80s, IIRC), it varied as to whether PA or BA would let their C award passengers into them.
I've recently used DL SkyMiles to book UC tickets for BOS-LHR for next June. I see that our G fare class doesn't qualify for ground limousine transfers (which is understandable), but does it qualify us to use the Revivals Lounge on arrival? I remember that, in the early years of LHR arrivals lounges (in the '80s, IIRC), it varied as to whether PA or BA would let their C award passengers into them.
Feb 10, 2017, 8:13 pm
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Oh and as you are on a G then you can use 17.5k miles to book a car for any of the legs of your trip. Though that may not be the best use of miles.
Feb 13, 2017, 8:10 am
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Feb 13, 2017, 4:04 pm
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Thanks for the input. No, I'm not inclined to blow a quarter of the mileage cost of a transatlantic UC ticket on getting from LHR into Bloomsbury . . . but it is good to know that we will have the option of using the Revivals lounge if we so wish.
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Feb 25, 2017, 2:23 pm
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Another arrivals lounge question...We are arriving 10am and our hotel has a check in time of 4pm. This lounge is landside. We will need to utilize the train from T3 to T5 eventually. Am I correct in assuming that we must stay airside...meaning that we cannot use the lounge because we will need to use the train to get to T5?
Feb 26, 2017, 12:00 pm
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Ok thanks. Assume you are staying at the Sotifel?
Yes you can do all of that - clear UK immigration, collect luggage and clear customs and visit revivals - then take the train from T3 to T5.
To be clear if you were doing T3-T5 airside then you would be using the airside buses and not going anywhere near the train which is the landside connection route.
Yes you can do all of that - clear UK immigration, collect luggage and clear customs and visit revivals - then take the train from T3 to T5.
To be clear if you were doing T3-T5 airside then you would be using the airside buses and not going anywhere near the train which is the landside connection route.