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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is lounge access so important to you? Especially just for one trip? Goal is to get to the airport in a timeframe where you won’t be sitting around that long before boarding.

I’d focus on a card that prioritizes other useful benefits and points earnings based on your typical spending habits. [/quote]

I am jealous that you don’t experience layovers and travel delays.[/quote]

I’ve never in my life used a lounge before a flight, but they are gold if your connecting flight gets cancelled/delayed. [/quote]

Sometimes yes, but a couple times I have been delayed by weather, and the lounge filled up like crazy as other flights got delayed also and people waited it out.  It got so uncomfortably crowded I just left and found a gate area without any flights for the next couple of hours.

I guess my larger point is that personally they have limited value, and paying hundreds of dollars in costs for a few visits/flights wouldn't be worth it to me.  I do have lounge access as a perk on cards that I have, and use it sometimes, but its purely ancillary value.  For instance, Chase for a long time had a nice additional thing on it's Priority Pass cards that gave you access to restaurants at a number of airports and you could get $50-80 worth of food there.  We used that usually 3-4 times a year.  Then they killed that perk 6 months ago.  So I downgraded the Sapphire Reserve to the Preferred, because the remaining Priority Pass lounges in the US are so weak it wasn't worth it.  This, for instance, is what it gets you at O'Hare.

https://onemileatatime.com/insights/swissport-lounge-chicago/[/quote]

LOLOL I have been to that lounge. THAT lounge at ORD is far far worse than the one at Liberia Costa Rica. Not even a contest. The Swissport lounge is truly depressing.[/quote]

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