A recent discussion created online buzz wondering whether it’s necessary to tip the person who cleans airport lounge showers between each use? The poster prompting the discussion tipped $5 at a Delta Sky Club and felt bad for not tipping $10. This seems to be thinking about the issue all wrong.
Lounges
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The Decline of Exclusivity: A Critical Look at the Centurion Lounge Experience
Lines to get into a Centurion lounge can be just as bad as at a Delta Sky Club. This is what things looked like at 1:45 p.m. on Monday in Las Vegas.
The whole point of an airport lounge is not to wait in the terminal. There’s nothing luxury about queueing.
New Capital One Lounge Denver Opens Tomorrow
Capital One opened its first airport lounge at Dallas – Fort Worth in November 2021. Then they opened Washington Dulles in September. Now their third one – the Capital One Lounge Denver – will open tomorrow – Friday, November 3.
Are Centurion Lounges A Hero Or A Zero? Why Some Would Pay $60 Per Visit, Others $0
Some of the variance is based on how much people spend on airports and save in the Centurion lounge. Others value it as an ideal, a real escape from the terminal and good food and drink and what that might retail for.
The problem is that, as I wrote five and a half years ago, Centurion lounges have gotten so busy nobody goes there anymore. The experience rarely measures up to the ideal where you experience peace, a nice meal, and even a spa treatment.
American Airlines Opens High End Admirals Club In Denver
The new Denver lounge is in terminal C between gate 30 and 32. It’s 6,000 square feet with seating for 114 people, and is open 4:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
British Airways Will Open New Lounge In Miami
Next week a British Airways lease for new lounge space at the Miami airport is expected to receive signoff. The lounge will be 12,973 square feet on the Concourse E-Satellite fourth floor.
Passenger Takes Revenge On Co-Worker Who Bragged About Airport Lounge Access
Access to an airport lounge is supposed to be a refuge from the crowds, a place to get help with your travel itinerary when flights delay and cancel, and a place to work and get something to eat in peace when you have time to kill. But is it a status symbol?
Delta Passenger Calls State Police After Locking Herself In Sky Club Restroom
A passenger in the Boston airport Delta Air Lines Sky Club locked herself in the bathroom when a stall’s handle fell off the door. Surprisingly, despite kicking and banging on the door, no one responded to her calls for help. Desperate, she pulled out her cell phone and placed a call to the police.
Capital One Access To Virgin Atlantic Clubhouses Has Changed
Premium American Express and Capital One customers have been frustrated by getting turned away from Virgin Atlantic lounges in the United States.
American Airlines Shuts Off Eternal Flame In The DCA Admirals Club
Every piece on the new DC lounge highlights the fireplace feature of the lounge. It helps make the space. However American Airlines has shut off the fireplace in the lounge, staff say, ‘for the environment’.