The Erste Premier Lounge in Prague (PRG) was like a crowded version of the next door Business Lounge, with the same food and largely the same decor.
Erste Premier Lounge Prague Review (PRG)
You will find the lounge upstairs (level three) near the C Gates (adjacent to the aforementioned Business Lounge). It is open daily from 5:00 am to 10:00 pm and accepts Priority Pass (children under 2 years are admitted free).
Inside, an agent scanned my Priority Pass card, followed by my boarding pass, then welcomed me inside.
The seating area includes clusters of four seats facing each other with bead dividers and a couch spanning the length of the lounge with high-backed chairs facing it. Power ports (220-volt) are plentiful and there’s even a “selfie zone”(sign of the times…).
There were also four desks (with privacy dividers and swivel chairs) intended for working. Each one had its own PC.
Finally, there was also a kids’ play area that my daughter would have loved.
The lounge offered a nice selection of food, including Czech Beef Goulash (Hovězí guláš) and several delectable spreads like beetroot. There was also chicken meatballs with tomato sauce, couscous, fried chicken tenders (“schnitzel”, boiled potatoes, salads, sliced meats and cheeses, and even breakfast cereals.
Drinks included coffee, tea, water, soft drinks, spirits (gin, vodka, rum, whiskey, and Becherovka, a Czech herbal bitter with a gingery or cinnamon flavor), beer, and wine.
Restrooms and showers are available, but the restroom was quite crowded so I have no pictures.
I was surprised to see a well-stocked magazine and magazine rack…physical periodicals and newspapers feel like a novelty in this era.
In short, this is a very decent Priority Pass lounge. The food selection is excellent, the drink selection respectable, and even though the lounge was crowded, I did not have any issue finding a seat. If you’re in the mood for one last bite of Czech food, give the beef goulash a try…I can vouch for it.
This used to be the lounge that Czech Airlines used, no? And I don’t mean as their own lounge, juat the lounge they sent their passengers to.
CSA used to have their own lounges on both sides of the terminal, the original one where they had those Dr Claw-inspired grey armchairs facing the apron became the non-Schengen lounge. I’m pretty sure this one used to be their Schengen facility.
I believe that both of the lounges were taken over by MasterCard when the airline got split from the ground operations as the latter were a lot easier to privatise. That’s almost ancient history now though, we’re talking 2008 or something to that effect.
Yeah 2008 was long before I visited so I never got to see their own lounges at PRG.