One of my favorite lounges in the world is now available to all travelers at a cost of €149. I cannot imagine this lasting, but it may represent a particularly good deal if you have a long layover between flights.
Purchase A Lufthansa First Class Lounge Pass For €149
After closing for several months, the Lufthansa First Class Lounge in Frankfurt (A Gates) re-opened earlier this month. This week, limited food and beverage service has resumed. While the lounge has not restored its full a la carte menu, buffet, and extensive drink list, it has promised to continue to re-introduce options during the summer.
During the pandemic Lufthansa has grounded its Airbus A340 and A380 fleet and with it, the majority of its first class seats. While the Boeing 747-8 continues to operate with first class seats and Lufthansa has confirmed future deliveries of the Airbus A350 will feature first class, the number of available first class seats is currently very limited.
The First Class Lounges have never been busy, but I can only imagine they are virtually empty now. Recognizing that under-utilized space, Lufthansa is selling first class lounge access at an attractive price of €149 in Frankfurt here.
Lufthansa outlines the limitations of the pass, which amazingly do not include time restrictions:
- Purchasing lounge access does not need any loyalty system membership, membership status or a specific booking class
- Access to the lounge is restricted to the date on the booking confirmation and demands a valid boarding pass for the same day from any airline
- Free access for kids under the age 2 accompanied by an adult
- No access for passengers in airlines uniform
- Lounge access purchase is only permitted for non-entrepreneurial usage
I love that last point: bloggers not welcome! Ha ha.
Note that HON Circle members as well as America Express Centurion cardholders continue to have access to this lounge.
There’s something perverse about “getting your money’s worth” by polluting your liver with more alcohol than you would otherwise drink, but this is not a bad deal at all on a long layover if you do enjoy a full meal, shower, and a nice place to relax.
You can read my full review of the first class lounge here.
Would you purchase a Lufthansa First Class Lounge Pass?
(H/T: One Mile At A Time)
This is going to sound really cheesy, but getting a rubber duck will help me to feel like the pandemic is on its last legs.
I think you can do a lot with €149 so there are many better ways to use that money than at a Lufthansa lounge. I am looking at the angle where most frequent travelers have at least some sort of lounge access (Priority lounge at least) so of course the food won’t be the same but you can eat some decent food at an airport for way lower than that price. Unless you have a 10 hour lay over I don’t see how I would spend that money in a lounge.
If I had a free afternoon/evening in Frankfurt, I’d definitely consider polluting my liver there for €149. I’ve never been and I think it might just be fun.
Surely some blogger is going to report on it. Does LH really have any recourse against them?
A little more than I’d spend unless the layover was for hours. A really rich person (but not private jet rich) wouldn’t blink an eye to pay that and spend only 30 minutes there.
I have flown paid first class very rarely, once on LH. One time, I played rich by checking in close to departure and boarding near the end. My connection was short so I did not experience the LH F lounge. 🙁
Does anyone know when the lounge was created? Even approximate year?
I have visited that lounge (admittedly only once and it was 3-4 years ago). I liked it, but I would absolutely not pay €149 to visit. I suspect Matthew’s assessment (and possibly that of OMAAT) of this offer may be somewhat influenced by his sentimental connections with, and overall feelings for, FRA, LH F etc.
The bar seemed really well-stocked, and I did enjoy the peace and quiet as well as a solid meal. But it won’t win any awards for design innovation, it doesn’t (AFAIK) have private rooms to nap in for a couple of hours, and the dishes were rather pedestrian (more ‘ribeye with asparagus and dauphinoise potatoes’ than ‘octopus sashimi served with fava mousse on a squid ink biscuit’).
The offer may be just about worth it for someone who has many hours between flights, no access to other lounges, and a need to spend some time working on a laptop without noise or other distractions around them. Everyone else is likely better off splitting their time between a SEN lounge and the AC one (assuming it reopens).
They better be serving Lobster and A5 Wagyu on that lounge. Otherwise, no lounge is worth that much money to me.
Well, their filet mignon is pretty darn good on the a la carte menu. Hopefully it returns post pandemic.
This is for a 1-year pass ??
GREAT !!
This is different than the First Class Terminal, or?
That terminal would be an *excellent* deal for EUR 149,-