Are you the kind of person who spends a lot of time in airports and wants a more luxurious way to pass that time? Maybe an enclosed space to get away from lots of other exhausted travelers, where you can get some food and relax in a separate area? Along with lounges offered by particular airlines, there’s also a Priority Pass airport lounge service, and as reported by Travel + Leisure, they’re currently discounting their pass.
The company offers three categories of membership, Standard, Standard Plus and Prestige. Right now, the Standard annual membership is discounted from $99 to $69 (plus a $35 visit fee each time), and the Standard Plus from $329 to $279 (you’ll get 10 free visits before the $35/per kicks in). This represents a 30 percent discount. For either category, if you bring a guest, they must pay $35/visit as well.
So what does this investment earn you? You’ll have access to a network of more than 1,300 airport lounges and experiences—such as perks at airport spas or restaurant credits—worldwide. There are more than 150 lounges in the U.S. and Canada alone. In these lounges, you can rest on a comfortable sofa, enjoy complimentary refreshments and email to your heart’s content with free WiFi (although many airports offer that already).
For instance, at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, the lounge you can access with the Priority Pass is the Swissport Lounge in the international terminal with couches so long-bodied you could definitely catch a few discreet Zzzz if you needed to.
And at New York’s JFK airport, you have a lot of options at various terminals. For instance, international travelers at Terminal 1 can visit the lounges for Air France, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, KAL and Primeclass lounges and visit the Be Relax spa for a brief massage of 15-30 minutes (included in the membership plus $35 visit fee). At Terminal 2, you can visit the lounges for Virgin Atlantic or Air India and the Primeclass Lounge, as well as stay one hour at the Minute Suites where you get a daybed in a private mini-hotel room. Terminal 5 visitors can get a massage at Be Relax and possibly avail themselves of several retail offers (the website has broken links). Finally, visitors to Terminal 8 can eat at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse where $28 will be taken off their bill.
It’s travel porn to peruse the website and look at the lounges and their offerings. This is definitely not your average, stressed-out layover!