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Charming Concept: SAS Café Lounge

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 20, 2017July 20, 2017 2 Comments

SAS offers a charming lounge concept at five smaller airports: lounge cafés.

SAS bases operations out of three Scandinavian hubs: Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, but serves 40 Scandinavian destinations. Some of these cities are too small to support a full lounge but to small or competitive to offer nothing. SAS has found a middle way through a concept it calls lounge cafés, available in the following five airports:

  • Malmoe, Sweden
  • Lulea, Sweden
  • Tromsø, Norway 
  • Trondheim, Norway 
  • Ålesund, Norway 

I had a chance to visit the SAS Lounge Café in Tromsø during a long layover.

The lounge constitutes a small rectangular single room with two rows of bench-style seating and some additional round tables. The only food and drink is a a coffee and juice machine, fresh bread, cookies and cinnamon rolls. It was quite crowded when we arrived in the mid-afternoon but emptied out by late evening. Internet worked well and a single attendant was on hand to restock food and help people who had trouble scanning into the lounge.

Warning: the cinnamon rolls went like Black Friday specials at Walmart. I chuckled that each time the lounge agent brought out a fresh basket of rolls, passengers descended upon them like vultures on a carcass.

Like other SAS lounge, the lounge opens an hour before the first flight and closes 30 minutes before the last departs. Although not explicit on the SAS website, this is Star Alliance Gold lounge.

CONCLUSION

While I naturally would have preferred a full lounge, this lounge represents a charming concept and was far better than waiting in the gate area for my fight to Stockholm.


Read more of my Scandinavia Trip Report:

Review: SAS A330 Business Class Los Angeles to Stockholm
Lounge Review: SAS Gold Lounge Stockholm
Review: SAS Business Class Stockholm to Oslo (Scenic Flight)
Lounge Review: SAS Gold Lounge Oslo
Review: SAS Business Class Oslo to Longyearbyen
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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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2 Comments

  1. henry LAX Reply
    July 20, 2017 at 4:01 pm

    SAS Schengen lounge at Goteborg (GOT) has a similar feel and charm even though it’s billed as a full service lounge. I love flying utilizing SAS and the peaceful oasis’ of OSL/ARN/CPH over the chaos that is FRA.

    on a side note, the 2nd sentence sounds slightly off syntactically.

  2. Gene Reply
    July 20, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    @ Matthew — The FCQ and I have visited the lounge in Tromso. After getting over the horror of the commonness of the lounge, it turned out to be OK. Definitely NOT fit for a Queen.

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