Review: My Lounge at London Gatwick’s North Terminal – how I ended up in the hipster lounge

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• Chelseafi says:

  20 Mar20 March 08:06

  I have a 6.40 am BA flight to Naples Fri week, 4 people,I have amex gold so two passes to use, is it worth me trying to get in lounge & which one? Is it additional £15 pp for extra 2 people on amex gold thanks.

• Peter says:

  20 Mar20 March 08:07

  I understand that the Bordeaux lounge is run by the quoted SSP Group which operates and franchises food, beverage and other concessions at airports. The lounge was already poor when it was run by Bordeaux airport itself, but somehow SSP have taken it to new lows in terms of provision of a range of food, drinks, newspapers, and general overall Customer proposition. It is, in my experience, comfortably (or rather not!) the worst aiport lounge in Western Europe….

• Al says:

  20 Mar20 March 08:08

  The Number 1 lounges at both Gatwick North and South are increasingly unavailable. To be honest I think Priority Pass should do the decent thing and de-list them – based on my last half dozen+ attempts to be let in, it is a fantasy to pretend that No1 want priority pass business.

  Lunchtime and the MyLounge is ghastly. Limited space, full of families with young kid noisely plsuing ganes.

  The MyLounge staff where having a great time chatting amongst themselves – so much more fun than noticing that the limited selection of hot food had run out.

  I left earlier than I had to because on balance the gate area would be more relaxing; vowing that next time I am going to go to the Aspire Lounge as a positive choice. Which is not something that I thought I would ever find myself saying.

  • Olivula says:

    20 Mar20 March 08:40

    I use Aspire regularly only because No1 turns Priority Pass away every time I try. But the Aspire lounge is dreadful too. Half the fridges have had “out of order” signs for months, the food options are dull and uninteresting. I went through the Aspire lounge at Edinburgh last week and was amazed at the Aspire offering there. Real sandwiches and commitment. If this is what Independance can bring….where do I sign? One can only guess why the standards at two of their airports would be so different.

    • Alan says:

      20 Mar20 March 08:43

      Yes the Edinburgh Aspire is a very nice lounge with friendly staff. It has become very popular but thankfully they’re pretty good at restocking things! Definitely a massive step up since the old version – and just to clarify, this is all *without* independence too 🙂

• Waribai says:

  20 Mar20 March 08:28

  Better than no lounge as is the case in Innsbruck and Fuerteventura say….!

• ringingup says:

  20 Mar20 March 08:44

  Raffles, it’s not BA who are building the lounge.

  • Rob says:

    20 Mar20 March 10:06

    Technically true, agreed – but whoever is paying the bill has no motivation to spend much on it unless No 1 intend to use it long term (or Aspire expands across).

    • ringingup says:

      20 Mar20 March 15:51

      I may be speculating, but aren’t No1 missing one of their products at the North Terminal?

• Britbronco22 says:

  20 Mar20 March 08:52

  So you discovered the glorified waiting room called the Bordeaux lounge! At least there is a view of the Tarmac.

  • Genghis says:

    20 Mar20 March 10:37

    The BOD lounge looks awful. I’ll be there in June for the Euros…

  • Anthony Dunn says:

    22 Mar22 March 01:49

    Ha, ha, ha… Yes, the BOD business class drinks dispensing machine is an absolute joke isn’t it! Having managed to track down the key to gain admittance when we were there on a tier points top-up, we were extremely grateful for the fact that we’d had an outstanding lunch and really could not face any of the meagre offerings provided. It was that dismal, we really had to ask ourselves “just why do they bother?”

• Ian says:

  20 Mar20 March 09:08

  “British Airways is currently converting the old Delta lounge, one floor below No 1 Traveller, into a small lounge for First Class and Gold card holders.”

  So Club Europe will still have rubbish then! 🙁

• planeflyer says:

  20 Mar20 March 09:55

  I popped into My Lounge last week for a few minutes. The drinks machine was broken, and there was a solitary can of coke in the fridge. I asked for some diet coke from the lady on the computer by the door. I was told “i’ll get you one”, then carried on at her computer for another 10 minutes until we left the lounge. Would rate it as 2/10. Bonus points for there actually being somewhere to sit, something not achieveable next door. BA have seriously hit a new low here. All fingers crossed the new temp F lounge will be open by my SVQ flight mid-April.

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