The Denver United Club on the B Concourse near gates B43/B44 is huge at around 35,000 square feet across multiple levels with about 600 seats. This is the largest United Club.
There are self-scan entry gates and agent on demand kiosks inside, leaning into the airline’s technology and labor-saving initiatives.
Access is for premium Chase Club Card cardmembers traveling same day on United and its partners, Star Alliance Gold members departing on same day Star Alliance flights, as well as business and first international cabin passengers on United and and its partners. Day passes are sometimes accepted.
There are two bars and two buffets with fairly standard United Club fare, which is to say it’s food but not anything you’re going to crave, a bit more than an Admirals Club but not as robust as a Sky Club.
Decor in the lounge is Colorado-inspired: they went for a ski-lodge vibe, with a pinecone sculpture as focal point, local art, concrete floors, and exposed ceilings. It was a huge transformation from the old lounge, and now is among the airline’s best United Clubs – stylish and warm, with fireplaces and wood accents.
It features conference rooms, wellness rooms, TVs and power outlets throughout. There are also private bathrooms.
Views of airport operations from the lounge are a plus as well.
There really aren’t plus features here, like gamerooms or other premium offerings, despite the size. And even as United’s largest club it does get crowded.
I think I like the B44 lounge more than the A concourse United Club, but not so much that I’d choose one over the other for any reason other than being closer to my gate. A has more empty seats up on the top floor, because it’s not as convenient to get up there, and it’s brighter. The newly-renovated B32 lounge is nearly as large.
It’s good that they expanded this because the old one used to get so packed that people would be sitting on the floor in the lounge, regularly over-capacity, probably a fire-safety issue. Was there recently and preferred the food at the Centurion (in C), but it’s nice (if you have access) to have options closer to the United gates when flying with them outta B.
Fantastic pictures as always — 35,000 sq ft wow. When the crowds are as when you went it must be very pleasant, the interior spacing seems good. Food looks decent too.
Excellent photos, Gary.
Contra @L737, I don’t always find the photos to be “fantastic.” Quite the contrary, many are blurry. And, I don’t like how people’s faces are plainly visible. Miss me with the lame excuse that people have no expectation of privacy in “public.” Regardless of whether that is legally true – it’s plain common decency not to show these people on this blog which is frequented by nutcases (as evidenced in comments)
I doubt @1990 was actually “there recently” or anywhere recently other than chronically online as I seem to find his comment at or near the top of literally every post published at any time of day. I also find him extremely responsive to others’ comments. That level of 24/7 responsiveness rivals even the hardest grinding associate at top law firms.
@Erect — Master class in being a contrarian. Are you the same guy at DoC using Chinese names and making similar comments (like today, on the Citi Strata thread, ‘阴道炎’?) If so, please do take some credit for your fine ‘work.’
Earlier this week, I flew Lufthansa (a380 biz, actually a very good flight) DEN-MUC and camped out on the top floor of United’s club near A25. For an entire hour, me and my wife were the ONLY passengers there. I’ve had similar experiences in the past flying from DEN. Just fantastic. Does that lounge also get crowded or is it always rather empty?
In United news that matters, The Port Authority of NY NJ has released traffic stats for June and, to no one’s surprise, UA continues to lag DL in passengers carried with DL carrying 33% more passengers overall and 50% more domestic passengers.
ATC issues have compounded the traffic reductions with 4% fewer flights (14% for UA) across all 3 airports and 4% fewer passengers.
AA is seeing the largest percentage increase but is still just over half the size of DL from NYC. B6 carries more passengers from NYC than AA does.
UA desperately wants to do a deal w/ B6 but the chances of anything more than a simple codeshare involving the #2 and #3 carriers in any market are slim to none
I was just in DEN in the B44 lounge at about 11am on Friday (at the time when you can grab the tail end of brekkie and maybe the first bits of lunch). It was absolutely slammed. One seat available downstairs but the power outlet didn’t work. Upstairs was almost as crowded although I did manage to find a single in a corner away from screaming babies. The lunch was exactly as photographed above, and it was very much not impressive. (I’m a vegetarian so if you eat meat YMMV.) It was absolutely the worst lounge I’ve spent time in in years. Just because you’re big doesn’t mean you’re all that great. DEN has never been one of my favourite airports and the United Club at B44 is another reason why.
In other other news, government superset data is out for Q1 2025 in NYC market (EWR/LGA/JFK).
UA had 39.4K pax/day 28.4K local only for 81% LF. DL had 29.9K, 23.1K local for 82% local.
Seem like DL is lightyears behind UA in the NYC market.
Oh, and, UA had a stage length adjusted PRASM of 16.6 to DLs 15.4. I’m sure UA is just quaking in their boots….
I disagree that this lounge is “now is among the airline’s best United Clubs” – to the contrary, it doesn’t compare to the United Club at EWR Terminal C which has a coffee bar, showers, and elevated food generally. It’s also pretty large as well.
@Daniel M — Are you referring to the Polaris lounge? If so, that’s a different category, altogether.
Admittedly, United had done a decent job renovating and expanding its regular United Clubs at EWR Terminal C, near gates 74 and 123. Also, the new one at Terminal A is excellent, too. And, for the NYC area, LGA Terminal B also has a decent, relatively new UC.
We have enjoyed both the new A and B UA lounges at DEN, but prefer to avoid DEN altogether if possible because of its extensive spread and often tight connection times. This is particularly true when returning to the US because the TSA lines are so long, even with Pre. On the other hand, it’s relatively easy to get my 10,000 steps in, plus hours of standing, while connecting through DEN. ; )
PSC,
you do realize that we are now in the 3rd quarter and 2nd quarter data was when UA’s mishandling of the EWR runway project resulted in the DOT slapping EWR with massive capacity cuts.
For June, the last month of the SECOND quarter, UA lost 15% of its flights from NYC on a year over year basis.
DL carries 50% more domestic passengers on 33% more total flights from NYC.
and DL’s average international flight carries 20 more passengers (172 to 152) than UA’s. I am sure DL is loving the notion that UA is going to plop XLRs into the EWR market to tie up its few remaining flights while DL keeps adding 339s while retiring 763s
@Tim Dunn — When I saw @PSC’s comment, I knew you’d be on-the-case! The 339s will be nice. Have never seen any DL 359s at JFK; is that because few Asia routes from NYC with DL? Other than TLV (and planned return of India), I cannot think of any other DL routes to Asia from JFK; otherwise, they rely on SkyTeam partners like KA to get to East Asia. Meanwhile, for NYC area, United flies nonstop to Tokyo (NRT and HND). Why has DL abdicated these routes? You’d have to connect to DTW, MSP, SEA, LAX, ATL to reach East Asia nonstop with Delta. Is it that DL would rather use its slots for mostly Europe?