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Home  >  Air Canada • Lounge Reviews  >  Review: Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge – Toronto Domestic (YYZ)
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Review: Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge – Toronto Domestic (YYZ)

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 4, 2022March 4, 2022 11 Comments

While I was tempted to spend my entire layover in the Air Canada Café nearby, I spent an hour in the domestic Maple Leaf Lounge in Toronto (YYZ).

Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge Toronto (Domestic) Review

If you’re looking for a heartier warm meal or alcohol, this is a better lounge than the Air Canada Café.

Hours + Location + Access Requirements

This lounge is currently open daily from 5:00AM to 12:00AM. It is located in Terminal 1 (domestic terminal) on Level 4. If you are entering via the security security checkpoint, the elevators are immediately on your left.

Access is reserved for Star Alliance business or first class passengers as well as Star Alliance Gold status holders traveling on a Star Alliance flight. United Club and Maple Leaf Lounge members also have accesss, as do Aeroplan 35K members (which are Star Silver, not Star Gold).

Seating

Upon entering and scanning your credentials, you can proceed left or right where there is seating (the area to the right, however, was closed during my visit). This lounge reminds me of the transborder lounge with a mix of tables and chairs overlooking a rooftop outside. Like other lounges, most seats do not have power ports, which is annoying if you want to charge your devices.

Charging Station

I made the mistake of leaving my iPhone charging cable at home, which is pretty deadly for a 24-hour trip that involved a lot of photos. Thankfully, I did not even have to buy a new cord because most Maple Leaf lounges have a charging station in which you can charge your mobile phone. These seem almost like quaint relics of the past in 2022, but really saved he day for me.

Food + Drink

Beverages in this lounge are self-serve, with beer, wine, spirit, soft drinks, juice, tea, and coffee available. The alcohol was locked until 11:00am, which was about the time I departed the lounge.

The food menu includes a buffet with pre-packaged items like salads and sandwiches as well as chips and cookies.

An a la carte menu with a limited selection of hot items was also available. Every table in the lounge has a sticker with an individual QR code to designate your table number. The hot @ la table food is brought directly to your table.

The menu section included tacos, meatballs, pasta, and pizza.

I tried both the pizza and buffalo chicken taco. Neither were tasty, with the chipotle mayonnaise overwhelming the small amount of chicken in the taco and the pizza quite soggy and greasy.

Air Canada has a lot of potential for this @ la table menu concept, but I found the quality of the food quite lacking.

Restrooms + Showers

Restrooms and showers are available. Shower stalls were locked and I did not see any attendants, so ask at the front desk if you wish to take a shower.
 

PressReader

The days of large magazine and newspaper racks in airport lounges are drawing to a close. As much as I love a printed newspaper, Air Canada offers over 7,000 magazines and newspapers with PressReader, which you can easily access over the lounge’s wi-fi network.

Service

I did not interact with the lounge staff except to scan my boarding pass to get in. The agents were gabbing with one another and did not bother to greet me, but were pleasant enough.

CONCLUSION

While I greatly prefer the nearby Air Canada Café, this is a large lounge that includes plenty of space to spread out as well as hot food and alcohol options.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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11 Comments

  1. ptahcha Reply
    March 4, 2022 at 11:52 am

    The really important question: Are Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars still there? They were hiding in plain sight, in a chest freezer in the middle of the lounge.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      March 4, 2022 at 11:57 am

      If they were there, I totally missed them! (also in Montreal and Vancouver)

  2. Steve Gatto Reply
    March 4, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    I was in the Domestic. Maple Leaf lounge over family day weekend ….

    Horrible experience…..furniture needs updating,
    Food served in cardboard boxes and no flavour, 1 channel available on all tv….CBC….how dreadful
    Bathrooms needed a good clean….

    Next time avoid completely!

    • Maureen Reply
      March 5, 2022 at 3:58 pm

      Nothing worse than seeing their 24/7 government propaganda channel.

      • DavidB Reply
        April 24, 2022 at 4:30 pm

        Better than Fox News in all US airline lounges?

  3. Jerry Reply
    March 4, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    That plaza premium lounge usually puts out a really nice curry, and has bar service. It’s an above average contract lounge.

  4. Maureen Reply
    March 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm

    While you had a somewhat empty experience the lounge is really overpacked most times. And shows its age. I really don’t go out of my way to go there. The Plaza lounge is much better. Even spending time at the AC Cafe is better!

  5. Scott Reply
    March 11, 2022 at 9:43 pm

    Funny story, had the opportunity to visit both US trans-border and Domestic lounges for the “same” flight a few years ago.

    Moving forwards, back again years later and while quite the same, I seem to recall the disappearance of a soft-serve ice cream machine.

    The “right side” is the less populated area, hopefully it will reopen soon.

    Saddened to hear about the demise of the printed matter. I would always grab extra for the flight or resort reading.

    Also hopeful that Covid-friendly food will soon be gone.

    At least if my next visit is not up to snuff, I have a backstop of Diners Club access to an alternate lounge.

  6. Richard Farrell Reply
    April 12, 2022 at 10:18 am

    The Vancouver Transborder Maple Leaf Lounge is not worth the price of admission or joining. The food options at 7AM are stale grocery store carrot muffins and cardboard cookies. There is coffee and soft drinks but really not much else. The furniture is worn, there are very few outlets to charge your phone, and there is not a staff member around that knows anything. They advertise table service but it is not available for three more hours. I am leaving and going to Tim Hortons.

  7. DavidB Reply
    April 24, 2022 at 4:32 pm

    Good to see the AC and CBC haters out in force.

  8. Ethan Reply
    June 7, 2022 at 5:37 pm

    Toronto domestic is pretty good but food is just horrible. If you are going to spend money to buy ingredients for the meals you might as well replace the cook (no way on earth it is a chef). The broccoli soup was so disgusting I had to pitch it right away. I stick with the cookie and a latte which I honestly enjoy. Montreal domestic was very crammed, food is better than TO but still needs improvement. I was able to eat the smoke meat sandwich which was decent. Kid enjoyed pasta with tomato sauce but said it was literally cold. Non-alcoholic drink options are very limited and had no cookies. Best AC lounge I experienced was in Calgary domestic.

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