Mexico City is home to my new favorite American Express Centurion Lounge. I enjoyed a great massage, shoe shine, haircut, and meal between Aeromexico flights. Talk about a productive layover!
The Mexico City AMEX lounges are run a bit differently than most. I visited the Terminal 2 lounge. Food is all a la carte and not complimentary, though Platinum and Centurion card members have access to a special menu.
But massages are free…at least a 15-minute massage for each passenger on a first-come, first-served basis. I was able to snag a massage without much hassle.
I noticed a full salon and asked if I could get a haircut as well. No problem…and it only cost about $8. I’m not posting pictures of my haircut, but I think it came out well.
As I working, a man stopped by table and asked if I would like my shoes shined. Sure, why not? He did a superb job.
Service also shined: a young man named Andreas served as my waiter and was incredibly attentive.
How was the food? I had a bowl of chicken soup and pizza, and both tasted excellent (but yes, the pizza was quite greasy).
Internet worked well, showers were available, coffee was good: I really could not ask for anything more.
CONCLUSION
I will post a full review with more pictures when my trip reports begins later this week. But this lounge surprised me in a very good way and turned out far better than the Aeromexico lounge I would visit after.
Wait – so you had an entire pizza AND the shortrib dish on the Aeromexico flight?
5 hours in between! 😉
I’m sorry…an Amex lounge where you have to pay for food?? I’m used to a high level of cuisine, some of it restaurant quality, in an Amex lounge, and no, a free massage doesn’t make up for it, in my opinion. Besides, there are way too many other lounges in MEX that you can access with Priority Pass for me to put up with paying for greasy pizza and chicken soup. I was actually in that “”Centurion” lounge a few weeks ago and the whole experience was somewhat bizarre. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
I must have been delirious. I thought this place was a dump.
Absolutely agree with regards to this specific lounge, Terminal 1 between gates 17-18, if I’m recognizing the pictures correctly. When I was there it was packed to the gills with people sitting on the ground, as well as messy and chaotic. Far cry from the other MEX Centurion Lounge.
That same day Lounge 19/Grand Lounge Elite was full and had the clipboard team taking names, so I descended to the pit known as the Avianca Global lounge. Raisin bread, crumbs, and empty bottles of booze were all they had to offer (oh and did I mention the elevator didn’t work so guests had to carry their bags down that narrow staircase?) Terrible experience overall that day in Terminal 1…
Matthew, might I suggest clarifying which specific AMEX lounge this is in your final review? I’ve noticed many of the Amex lounge reviews online don’t specify this, which can be confusing to the readers that have not yet traveled to Mexico City. Thank you for all of the great content!
I thought I had mentioned T2 in my review. Sorry for that. Yes, this was T2.
@Gene: You visited the old one in T1 or the nicer one in T2?
Lovely fancy nails there Matthew! They look great on you. You have an impeccable taste 😉
Not a great lounge. Got food poisoning there in January. Never going back.
What did you eat?
Which Centurion club is this, aren’t there a few at MEX? Flying out of there in May from Terminal 1 I asked a few airport employees where the club was as I couldn’t find it, it may have been poor Spanish on my end but the response I universally got was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Those fingernails…
Not mine!
Dammit. Came here to make a “nice nails” comment.
“I’m not posting pictures of my haircut, but I think it came out well.”
Pics or it didn’t happen. 😉
I’m not sure what the $150 was for. What am I missing?
Mexico uses the $ for Peso which as of this writing comes out to $7.88USD. He did say his haircut was about $8 USD.