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Amex lounge las vegas airport1/25/2024 ![]() ![]() I don’t mind airports so I can usually find an empty gate area and sit, watch planes and people, work or just veg out. The last thing I want to do is add lining up, crowds, noise and more chaos to the start of my journey. I have a Plat card but do not consider the CL as a perk or added benefit. Please, stop trying to convince yourself that lounges aren’t shitty…because they are, and you know it! You only stand in the line because if you don’t, you’ll really feel like an idiot for spending $695 a year for Walmart+, the Disney channel, and an ugly pair of socks that you didn’t want from Saks to justify the stupid $50 credit. So again, tell me what is so great about your current lounge situation that makes it soo much better than sitting at a gate? Also, chances are if you really want to be away from folks, more times than not, you’ll be able to find an empty or almost empty gate. The food is slightly above Golden Corral. With so many folks, the restrooms (at least the men’s) have piss splatter everywhere. You’ll hardly find a seat so please don’t claim that you can get some work done in a lounge. To all the folks that say that they’d rather stand in a line as if they’re being herded like animals or walk around aimlessly waiting for a text to gain entry, is better than sitting at a gate, please tell me you don’t believe your own bullshit. paying for a toll lane on the way to airport, expedited security, not checking luggage) than the airport lounge. Your money is much better spent on reducing the margins of airport uncertainty (e.g. Nobody that travels that much and are in their right minds would be paying out of pocket for Sk圜lub membership these days. ![]() I suspect these people are the people that only fly 1x per month or less and have the benefit through the credit card. After like 3 times of this, I was like, wait what? Why? When I first started flying 2x weekly, I went to the airport early to experience the lounges. Travel perks, in general, wear thin when you do enough travel. Be ok with getting to the airport closer to departure time and booking tighter connections and there’s no point to the lounge. The 2-hour thing is BS, despite the scare tactics of the TSA lines going into the parking garage or whatnot. Even without the wait, why would you want to spend extra time in a lounge? For like a couple drinks, a worn out chair, and some carrot sticks? Unless the airport terminal is incredibly crowded (like CLT), I find it’s better to pay the $25 for a real meal when I need to kill time.īetter yet, is just stop spending so much time at airports. I have never understood the appeal of lounges, especially domestically. Maybe American Express – and Capital One – could offer Platinum cardmembers a couple of ‘skip line line’ priorities per year? And a decade on even the design feels dated. They were producing food at a smaller scale and with what seemed like a bigger budget per head.īack then there were no limits on how far in advance you could arrive at a Centurion lounge, and no lines to get in.Ĭredit card premium lounges are a victim of their own success, attracting more customers (which detracts from the experience) and driving up costs (which lead to cutbacks in the experience). Those managing the budgets hadn’t quite anticipated that when you open a nice lounge, more people will show up, stay longer, and eat more. When American Express first opened Centurion lounges, the food was fantastic and lounges weren’t overrun. I’d even wait near my gate or in a food court if there’s a power outlet. I’d rather camp out in a restaurant with $28 Priority Pass credit and my laptop if there’s no wait (neither American Express nor Capital One-issued Priority Pass cards honor those credits anymore). However, Delta for years has promoted the idea that ‘when everyone’s elite, nobody is.’ When there are so many cardmembers traveling through airports that there are lines to get into their lounges, the lounges cannot in any way be considered ‘elite’. And sometimes it’s useful for lounge access I wouldn’t have otherwise. It pays for itself with credits against spending I would do anyway. The whole point of an airport lounge is not to wait in the terminal. Capital One could still improve, letting you add yourself to any queue virtually. And they also don’t pack people in as much, once inside it feels busy but not overrun (so there’s little queueing for food or at the bar). You don’t have to stand around like an idiot waiting. The Capital One lounge puts you on a list and text you when it’s your turn to enter. It’s crowded, too, but they manage queuing better.We did visit the Capital One lounge there! When I took my cousin on a seven hour tour of DFW airport while he was connecting enroute home to Australia, about the only thing we didn’t do was stop into the American Express lounge. ![]()
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