News: Heathrow T3 lounge news, Berlin lounge news, £200 easyJet Holidays / Amex offer

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• Martin says:

  15 Nov15 November 04:08

  Thought pizza express took over the grain store in gatwick south… clearly I’m getting old as getting north and south confused..

  Might help me though in identifying if I live southeast or southwest when filling in forms..
  Can never find the Southampton or Portsmouth option, let alone the Isle of wight.!!

  • Rob says:

    15 Nov15 November 07:53

    No, I’m getting old 🙂

• PaulC says:

  15 Nov15 November 05:05

  We are currently in Berlin and flying home Sunday. Looking on the Priority Pass app earlier in the week it wasn’t clear we had any options at all. Hopefully we can make use of the Tegal Lounge with my American Express version pass.

  • Alexander says:

    15 Nov15 November 06:42

    It’s confusing to find as it’s situated in the schengen area and BA flights depart from the non schengen area. Ask for directions BEFORE passport control.

    • LittleNick says:

      15 Nov15 November 10:47

      Is the Tegal lounge and Moevenpick cafe near each other? Will be visiting early December. You can walk airside right from the BA terminal to T1 albeit long?

      • Rob says:

        15 Nov15 November 11:17

        Moevenpick, IIRC, is on the side with the Tempelhof lounge so I suspect, no, they are not close together.

        • LittleNick says:

          15 Nov15 November 17:34

          Ok. Thanks

        • Bagoly says:

          17 Nov17 November 16:31

          Correct

    • ee says:

      16 Nov16 November 10:28

      The signage in BER is awful. We ended up passing through passport control on the way to the lounge and were then stuck. Not only that, the plane then picked up a 2 hour delay prior to leaving London on the outbound.

      There are LCDs showing the walk time to certain gates but they all seemed to show the same times regardless of position relative to the gate.

      • Bagoly says:

        17 Nov17 November 16:29

        Last month I made the mistake of going through passport contro while the Tempelhof lounge is accessing landside.
        But I did manage to find a flight of stairs at the south end, went down a level and found an immigration gate ( I guess it is where those making non-Schengen to Schengen connections go)
        So the situation can be retrieved.

    • Bagoly says:

      17 Nov17 November 16:32

      And remember that Schengen (A, B gates) is the same level as security, with non-Schengen (C, D gates) on the floor above (so ‘planes can use the same physical gates)

• Nick G says:

  15 Nov15 November 07:05

  I was at Berlin about 3 weeks ago. Flew Ryanair and by the time I was in Terminal 1 after walking through I realised the movenpick cafe was 15 mins after I asked how far it was, so I gave up. The PP app was only showing the cafe not the NU cafe/bar as well at the time. Glad there’s finally a lounge I can use at BER if flying FR.

• Gordon says:

  15 Nov15 November 07:31

  I liked the Tempelhof lounge, reviewed by hfp.
  We it Used last November on a BA flight back to LHR T5, there are some great floor to ceiling windows, with chilling loungers to view the planes etc, and you exit the lounge through a different door to the entry, through a passport control booth, and the gate for BA993 was a 30 second walk.

• Alan says:

  15 Nov15 November 07:41

  Re T3 that’s annoying. We’ve just taken a Platinum card and got a BA flight to Toulouse that departs at 6:25. With Centurion not opening until 5:30 we were really restricted to the 2 ‘outside’ lounges. Even though we’d get there like 5am opening I can see them not taking any walk ups.

  Hey ho

  • Nick says:

    15 Nov15 November 12:32

    Lounges aren’t busy at opening time. They’ll accept you based on your flight time rather than turning you away – you’ll be gone by the time they get busy and it’s easy money for them to let you in for 45 mins.

• Doug says:

  15 Nov15 November 07:44

  ‘I am only flagging this because I know what is going to happen and it is interesting, ‘
  Well, tell us then!

  • danstravel says:

    15 Nov15 November 08:22

    Bets on it being turned into an alliance lounge?

    • Can2 says:

      15 Nov15 November 08:24

      Would that be interesting?

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    15 Nov15 November 08:39

    Further roll out of the Aspire ‘suites’ product first rolled out at Newcastle last year meaning those who are willing to pay more for an at seat dining experience in the lounge can get it

• Richard says:

  15 Nov15 November 09:35

  I like the Tempelhof lounge, and have been using it about once a month. Last time my flight (BER-LCY) left from Gate D19 (rather than the usual closer C gates). It’s about as far as you can get from the lounge, I think it was about 1km walk to the gate.

  • john says:

    15 Nov15 November 09:48

    Good to get the blood flowing before you have to sit down for long periods! I have no issue with walking in an airport terminal, it should be encouraged.

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  15 Nov15 November 11:51

  There are some long walks at BER and only limited travelators.

  To access the Tegel lounge you need to turn right after exiting security and walk right down to the end of the B gates

  When you want to get to the C/D gates you then need to walk back to the central area and take the escalators up to passport control to access the non-schengen C/D gates.

  Allow plenty of time!

  C/D gates are ABOVE the A/B gates not a separate part / pier of the airport.

  • The Original David says:

    15 Nov15 November 19:09

    There’s a passport control out of the back of the lounge that lets you straight through to the C/D gate corridor.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      15 Nov15 November 19:34

      Templehof yes but not Tegel!

      • Bagoly says:

        17 Nov17 November 16:37

        Names have historical references but really pretty confusing, especially starting with the same two letters.
        And the north-south relationship between the lounges with those names is the opposite of the former airports they are named after.
        We will all be getting old!

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