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#252659 by easygoingeezer
06 Jan 2008, 15:37
Considering spending some of my miles ( actually I want to get rid of them ) on a trip and want to try the clubhouse at heathrow, it appears Mia flight departs 9:20ish, what time does the new clubhouse open?

Is the BA clubhouse comparable to it
#430861 by RichardMannion
06 Jan 2008, 15:49
Originally posted by easygoingeezer
Is the BA clubhouse comparable to it


Not in the slightest. I'd compare the Terraces complex to a Priority Pass Lounge, just above a ServisAir Lounge. A VS CH is miles ahead of any BA Terraces facility.

I think LHR CH opens at 6:30am, not been there that early for a while.
#430862 by locutus
06 Jan 2008, 15:52
From VH:

Opening hours: 7am - 10pm
#430867 by Guest
06 Jan 2008, 16:24
Originally posted by easygoingeezer
Considering spending some of my miles ( actually I want to get rid of them ) on a trip and want to try the clubhouse at heathrow, it appears Mia flight departs 9:20ish, what time does the new clubhouse open?

Is the BA clubhouse comparable to it


By reading your numerous postings on theDIBB it seems your are a regular visitor to the VS LGW Clubhouse. One may say the VS clubhouse at LHR is similar but larger and superior in most every way to hte LGW offering unless, like me, you like the intimate atmosphere and service one finds at LGW. Personally, I would not liken either of them to the current inferior BA Terrace lounges offering as Mr Mannion as pointed out in an earlier reply. BA Lounges are promised to change when T5 is opened - especially if flying FIRST or a EC PREMIER.

Regards,

HG
#430869 by RichardMannion
06 Jan 2008, 16:42
Originally posted by hackneyguy
BA Lounges are promised to change when T5 is opened - especially if flying FIRST or a EC PREMIER.

Regards,

HG


I'm intrigued to visit them when they open in March, as the article I read in the BA inflight magazine left me confused and wondering if they will be on par.
#430872 by Guest
06 Jan 2008, 16:56
Originally posted by RichardMannion
Originally posted by hackneyguy
BA Lounges are promised to change when T5 is opened - especially if flying FIRST or a EC PREMIER.

Regards,

HG


I'm intrigued to visit them when they open in March, as the article I read in the BA inflight magazine left me confused and wondering if they will be on par.


Me too - I was invited and attended a review in November but it was more like a building site and very little info was shared with us - a total waste of a day really. All the subsequent EMails and snail Mail I have received seem to point to a great experience that awaits us but I remain to be convinced.

Yours hopefully !!

HG
#430885 by VS045
06 Jan 2008, 18:57
CH wins hands down.

45.
#430965 by slinky09
07 Jan 2008, 17:36
Originally posted by RichardMannion
Originally posted by hackneyguy
BA Lounges are promised to change when T5 is opened - especially if flying FIRST or a EC PREMIER.

Regards,

HG


I'm intrigued to visit them when they open in March, as the article I read in the BA inflight magazine left me confused and wondering if they will be on par.


When VS opened the new UC security channel one of the things I was talking about to a staff member at the time was how wonderful it was to be able to get to the CH from check-in in 5 minutes. She, rather gleefully, said that according to VS research it could take as much as 50 minutes at T5 to get from arrival through to the lounges - partly because the terminal is so vast and the lounges are all as far as they can be from check-in, to give good views! Be interested to see this tested.
#430967 by RichardMannion
07 Jan 2008, 17:43
Originally posted by slinky09
Originally posted by RichardMannion
Originally posted by hackneyguy
BA Lounges are promised to change when T5 is opened - especially if flying FIRST or a EC PREMIER.

Regards,

HG


I'm intrigued to visit them when they open in March, as the article I read in the BA inflight magazine left me confused and wondering if they will be on par.


When VS opened the new UC security channel one of the things I was talking about to a staff member at the time was how wonderful it was to be able to get to the CH from check-in in 5 minutes. She, rather gleefully, said that according to VS research it could take as much as 50 minutes at T5 to get from arrival through to the lounges - partly because the terminal is so vast and the lounges are all as far as they can be from check-in, to give good views! Be interested to see this tested.


Lets hope when they get there, that a limited service isn't in action. Remember eggs only have a shelf life of 1 day.... muppets.
#430968 by jimbob247
07 Jan 2008, 17:45
First time I tried the new CDC check in the barriers were broken.

Took 25 mins, not 10 as advertised.

Still not bad though.
#431052 by Darren Wheeler
07 Jan 2008, 23:31
50 minutes!!! Will BA be providing a Segway for their J pax?
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