The flagship business class lounge for EVA Air at its Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport hub in Taipei is by no means a bad lounge, but it’s also a disappointment, especially when compared to the phenomenal product offered onboard in Royal Laurel class.

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EVA Air Infinity Lounge Taipei Review (TPE)

EVA has four lounges at TPE, including:

EVA Air The Infinity Lounge – open to all EVA Air business class passengers + Star Alliance first and business class passengers
EVA Air The Star Lounge – open to all Star Alliance Gold members
EVA Air The Club Lounge – open to all Star Alliance Gold members + Infinity MileageLands Silver members
EVA Air The Garden Lounge – open only to Infinity MileageLands Diamond members

Location + Hours + Access

The lounge complex is located in Terminal 2 just past the security checkpoints. I stopped at this lounge after visiting the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Lounge, but it is not the easiest lounge to reach if you are connecting and signs are not clear.

The lounge is open each day from 4:30 am until 11:30 pm.

Inside, Star Alliance Gold members traveling in economy class are directed left into The Star Lounge and business class passengers are directed right into The Infinity Lounge.

Seating

As you enter the lounge, you’ll turn right and encounter a large seating area on the right (with bathroom, showers, and food on the left) and a more seating in the rear of the lounge. It was fairly crowded when I arrived at 6:00 pm but emptied out a bit over the next hour as many of EVA’s transpacific flights departed.

I took a seat at the counter along the window (which has no natural lights, but looks down at the terminal check-in area two levels below) and was able to work efficiently.

Newspapers + Magazines

Digital magazines (via QR code) are available while using the lounge’s Wi-Fi network.

Lockers

If you care to leave your larger carry-on bag, there are 14 combination lockers near the entrance in a side room.

Food + Drink

The lounge has a large buffet area with hot and cold Western and Asian food items, a salad bar, soups, and sweets. The evening selection included:

Stir-fried chicken with oyster mushrooms
Stir-fried pork with vegetables
Fusilli with “German Sausage tomato sauce” (uh, no thanks)
Asparagus with mixed vegetables
Stir-fried rice vermicelli with vegetables
Stir-fried mushrooms with sesame oil and soy sauce
Dim sum
Chinese noodles with beef
Salad bar
Soup bar
Cookies
Bagels
Croissants
Cake
Yogurt
Ice cream (from Häagen-Dazs) [self-serve scoops with four flavors]
- Blueberries & cream
- Vanilla caramel brownie
- Coffee
- Strawberry cheesecake

Drinks included soft drinks, juice, water, tea, coffee, beer, wine, and spirits: all self-serve.

I had already eaten in the Singapore Airlines Lounge, but made myself a flat white ahead of my long flight (as long as I use a single shot of espresso and not a double shot, it really does keep me awake) and also had a glass of cold-pressed strawberry and guava juiced (suspiciously sweet, but good).

Restrooms + Showers

This lounge has four shower suites, each with a different name (Metro Forest, Smile Zone, Fantasy Flow [okay…], and Star Drops). All were occupied during my visit.

The restrooms were also crowded so I only have a picture of the toilet…that was a Toto with a bidet.

CONCLUSION

No, this is not my favorite lounge and I find it fairly underwhelming for a flagship business class lounge at EVA’s hub airport. It’s especially lackluster considering the above-average product you will experience when flying on EVA Air in business class. That said, there was a respectable selection of food and drinks and I was able to get a lot of work of done ahead of my flight. So I would not arrive early to use this lounge and prefer the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Lounge, but it’s also not a bad lounge.