The lounge just consisted of one long, rectangular room. Size wise it was perhaps most comparable to the Amex Centurion Studio Seattle.
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The lounge was quite small, smaller than any full US Amex Centurion Lounge. The agent had to manually enter my card info and also scan a copy of my boarding pass. It even had the same signature “plant wall.” The check-in process seemed overly complicated and took a few minutes. The exterior looked similar to a US Amex Centurion Lounge. I was admitted based on my US Platinum Card® from American Express, which is one of the best premium credit cards with lounge benenits. I assume most people accessing the lounge have the Australian version of the Platinum Card, which has a 1,200AUD (~850USD) annual fee. I had a few minutes before boarding was scheduled to begin, so I figured I might as well pop in and see how it is. It’s one of my favorite lounges in the world.Īs I walked to the gate I noticed there was an American Express Centurion Lounge as well. Now, the downside is that word has spread about how awesome these lounges are, and they’ve become quite popular, to the point that they’re extremely crowded. So they’re still great, but at some point American Express has to do something to control the crowding, in my opinion (however, I wouldn’t want to be tasked with figuring out how!).Ī few days ago I was flying from Sydney to Auckland on Qantas, and could use the Qantas First Class Lounge Sydney, which was of course fantastic as usual. Still, the US Centurion Lounges feature real food, complimentary cocktails, and the ones in Dallas and Miami even offer complimentary spa treatments. If these lounges were outside the US, they probably wouldn’t seem as impressive, since the alternative lounges would be much nicer. Perhaps part of the reason they’re so awesome is because they’re so much better than everything else offered by US airlines. I’m talking specifically about the American Express Centurion Lounges in Dallas, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. The bright spot among US airport lounges are those operated by American Express. Generally speaking US airport lounges are among the least impressive in the world, unless the metric of quality is the quantity of processed cheese and near-stale cookies on offer. “Boy, I wish this were as nice as a US airport lounge…” Please check out our advertiser policy for further details about our partners, and thanks for your support! Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of the bank, credit card issuer, airline, hotel chain, or product manufacturer/service provider, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities. These are the best publicly available offers (terms apply) that we have found for each product or service. In the interest of full disclosure, OMAAT earns a referral bonus for anyone that’s approved through some of the below links.
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