The newest Delta Sky Club in Seattle (SEA) in Concourse A near gate 11 provides welcome relief to overcrowding several nice amenities.
Delta Sky Club Seattle Review (SEA) – A11
I visited this lounge during my multi-hour layover while traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago.
Hours + Access + Location
The lounge is located in Concourse A, near gate A11 (way down at the end of the terminal past the United Club). It is open daily from 5:00 am to 10:30 pm and sits one level below the more premium Delta One Lounge.
Access is available to:
- Delta Sky Club members (along with same-day boarding pass for Delta or a partner)
- Lifetime members can access the club regardless of the airline they are traveling on
- Two guests or immediate family (including all children under age 21) are permitted for “executive” members while “individual” members must pay $50 for guests (max two).
- Delta One or SkyTeam premium cabin passengers
- Access only when traveling on a branded “Delta One’ (versus first class) domestically
- Access when connecting to/from a same-day international Delta One flight
- No guests permitted
- SkyTeam Elite Plus members traveling on an international ticket in any cabin of service
- Includes Canada, Mexico
- Excludes Caribbean, Guam, Palau, Saipan
- One guest permitted
- There is an exception for SkyTeam Elite Plus passengers via SkyMiles (no access if traveling in economy class)
- Select credit card holders
- Delta SkyMiles Reserve from American Express
- no access on basic economy fares
- limited to 15 visits per year unless $75,000 annual spending on card
- guests are $50 each
- American Express Platinum / Centurion
- no access for Platinum business cards
- limited to 10 visits per year unless $75,000 annual spending on card
- no access on basic economy fares
- Delta SkyMiles Diners Club card
- Three visits per year (guests are included in this count)
- no access on basic economy fares
- two guests permitted
- Delta SkyMiles TRUST CLUB Platinum/Gold Visa card
- Six visits per year (guests are included in this count) for Platinum, three visits for Gold card
- no access on basic economy fares
- two guests permitted
- Delta SkyMiles Reserve from American Express
- WestJet Business Class passengers
- No guests permitted
- WestJet Rewards Gold and Platinum members
- Access only when traveling on a transborder flight
- One guest permitted
Complicated, to say the least…
You’ll find the lounge on level 3F and can take an elevator or the stairs up to the lounge.
Seating
As you enter the lounge, there is a very attractive seating area next to a flight help desk (that was unstaffed during my visit).
Further in, there are more tables and chairs, couches, and a dining area around the buffet, with seats overlooking the landscape outside.
The lounge felt very spacious, and the natural light and greenery outside the windows quite picturesque.
Here’s a birdseye view from the Delta One Lounge above, which looks down on this lounge:
Notice the lounge wasn’t very crowded, which is quite refreshing (especially for a Delta lounge!).
Food + Drink
A buffet area in this lounge included a generous selection of salads, sandwiches, wraps, crudités, sliced meats and cheeses, soups, and several hot dishes (vegetable spring rolls, sweet chili meatballs, shrimp fired rice, and roasted garlic green beans). Dessert included coconut creme pie, summer berry compote, sliced watermelon, and various cookies (snickerdoodle, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin).
A very respectable selection of food…
While most drinks were self-serve (coffee, tea, soft drinks, juices), a full-service bar offered both complimentary and premium paid alcohol options (I’ve included the menu below).
Restrooms + Showers
Restrooms and showers are available in this lounge: you can reserve a shower using a kiosk near the lounge entrance.
Business Center
Kudos to Delta for maintaining a business center in the lounge…I think being able to print (typically in an unforeseen circumstance) is such a value add.
CONCLUSION
Delta’s done a great job with this new lounge (the A1 Lounge is also nice, but tends to be more crowded). It’s well-appointed and tucked away in the sense that it never got crowded. SEA is not my favorite airport in terms of the comfort of common areas, but this is a great lounge to wait for your light or freshen up after your flight.
I haven’t been through Seattle since this replaced the older Sky Club. Seattle always used to have better food and a better selection than other lounges in the Sky Club system. Just like San Francisco, DCA, JFK and LGA. Now it looks like the selection is the more basic selection found in other lounges operated for Delta by Sodexo, like the DTW lounges and the ATL lounges. The crispy vegan “chicken” squares and diced cold grilled chicken are beyond pathetic. You used to have hot entrees like salmon fillets in Seattle.