Exclusive Entry: Sip $150 Champagne at Paris’s Extime Lounge, Courtesy of American, British Airways and El Al [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • With the American and British Airways lounges still closed at Paris Charles de Gaulle, a lot of customers have gotten to know the Extime lounge (it’s being by several oneworld airlines, plus air baltic, Air Serbia, El Al, and a few others as well). It’s hardly an exceptional lounge but one thing seems especially notable… $50+ retail champagne, that would cost $100 to $150 or more in a restaurant:

  • Short-term rental host, “did you forget to clean the oven?” Charges $150 fee for that, and because the unit’s towels became discolored when the guest did the wash using the detergent provided.

    Got charged $150 in additional cleaning fee
    byu/Dustythecockatiel invrbo

  • North Korea to reopen for international visitors, tour operators say

  • Debating the rules of the buffet.

  • Fourth time ever on a plane. The Hawk Tuah girl isn’t one of us.

  • Happy 10th anniversary from Chase Ink, via Paul H. Nice!

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. That “hawk” girl has a dumb dumb look … and that security lady sort of overdid the pat-down .

  2. Back in the day, Casino “security” would have dragged that idiot out back and broken both of knee caps and finished off with a good wood shampoo. We really need to return to the times when there were consequences for your actions – That’s why we can’t have nice things.

  3. The 2B Extime lounge was a much better lounge than I expected. Good food, not crowded. It even has kosher food for El Al flights. Did not notice that about the champagne, though. Also, I wish it was on the other side of passport control.

  4. Why are you stopping at the $150 bottle of champagne? The Mera lounges in CUN have $800* bottles of tequila and vodka you can sip courtesy of Amex and Capital One!

    *It’s Patron and Grey Goose, but at Las Vegas nightclubs bottle service for those is $800 with tax and tip! Or maybe you could just use retail prices rather than try to be a tabloid. I like a lot of your articles, but running these clickbaited headlines is just disappointing.

  5. @Alert
    So what’s the proper facial expression when getting molested during security theater? That’s probably her first molestation if she’s only flown 4 times. I giggle because I’m ticklish.

  6. @H2O … The more a girl is tickled , the louder she laughs , and twists and turns wildly . Not her dumb-dumb look .

    That said , she could have given security a slight push , by accident of course .

  7. When I see a name like Haliey, I wonder if the parents were trying to be cute or just can’t spell.

  8. She is supposedly a redneck girl social media influencer out of Tennesee.
    Befitting her mode, she likely chose not to go through the scanner, because aliens or some shit.
    As a result, her followers had the pleasure of posting many racist memes and comments.
    You’ll see that if you click through.

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