Review: the refurbished Aspire lounge at Liverpool John Lennon Airport

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• iain wilson says:

  14 Aug14 August 06:37

  your link at the top seems to take me back to the front page?

• Len Orford says:

  14 Aug14 August 07:40

  Visited this lounge last week. Extremely impressed. Goes into the top 5 of my lounges visited, and I have visited a fair few.

  • Ken Middleton says:

    14 Aug14 August 07:42

    Not so. All the articles are lounge reviews.

    • Ken Middleton says:

      14 Aug14 August 07:44

      Sorry. Answer to the previous question.

  • Boris says:

    14 Aug14 August 18:21

    A fair few third party lounges? Proper frequent flyers – at least the ones that refuse to fly Ryanair – know that this could not possibly be in the top 50 or even 100 of lounges across the world. It might qualify for being best third party lounge in UK But will be spoiled by the Scouser element.

• Bill says:

  14 Aug14 August 08:16

  Sorry I was in a rush and o literallyonly had time to take the photos. I don’t think the service offering has changed too much. It’s very bright in the lounge due to the low ceiling and LED lights. As you will see the bar is much bigger now.

• Steven says:

  14 Aug14 August 08:28

  I have used this lounge recently and the service was really good. It’s a shame that from it’s current home you don’t get a direct view of the runway! Re food – Two hot meals (pasta/sauce/meat type) were avaliable and a soup.

• Brian says:

  14 Aug14 August 08:53

  In its previous layout it was one of the better Aspire lounges, with a pretty decent offering. Although Rob mentions that only ‘light bites’ are available, I wouldn’t say it was any inferior to other Aspire lounges and much better than the Aspire at T1 in MAN, which I think is soulless, has far too many open spaces and generally wasted space. The coffee and food are pretty dire too.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    14 Aug14 August 08:58

    Hard to think of a single thing that Manchester does better then Liverpool. ;o)

    • Lady London says:

      14 Aug14 August 13:18

      OK, I’ll bite. Football?

      • ankomonkey says:

        14 Aug14 August 16:03

        Yep, Man City are better than Everton.

  • Andy says:

    14 Aug14 August 11:21

    Are you having a laugh? I love LPL airport as it is a breeze to fly through (The VIP Parking to express Security is the best arrangement of any airport I have ever seen short of the Virgin Chauffeur to the private departure and security area at LHR T3). This Lounge in its former guise was terrible and the issue was not the décor and furniture it was the limited poor quality booze selection at an attended bar (with perpetually grumpy staff), terrible food offering and generally crappy ambience.

    Despite having a an unlimited access PP I would always go to the bar (and there is a reasonable choice) and just buy a meal and decent drinks. I rather hope they have done more than just give the place a lick of paint and assembled a few Ikea flatpacks.

    Whilst I also hate MAN with a passion (most especially T3 at MAN) there is no way in which the LPL lounge is better than the Aspire at T1 which has great seating spaces and choices, a fairly decently staffed bar and reasonable food options. At MAN T1 though I tend to pick the Escape Lounge as an all round better choice despite the lack of runway views.

    • Mark1980 says:

      14 Aug14 August 13:43

      Hi Andy, do you ever have any issues getting access to either of the T1 lounges at MAN with a PP?

      • Andy says:

        14 Aug14 August 14:19

        I haven’t ever had that problem and usually I am in around peak times, I have had a few issues at T3 though at the Escape Lounge which I prefer to the BA Lounge when I am in T3.

• Alex says:

  14 Aug14 August 10:49

  I just had a look at flying up there for Macca in December, but apparently there are no flights between London and Liverpool… Train it is. Are there any priority pass lounges at the station ? ;-D

  • Andy says:

    14 Aug14 August 11:26

    There is a Virgin Trains Lounge at Euston accessible to first class ticket holders which gives free drinks to Frequent First Class Travellers (who get a card), whilst Liverpool is one of the better VT Regional Lounges and has a decent snack selection (certainly better than that in the Aspire at LPL in my past experience), there is no bar.

• S**mo says:

  14 Aug14 August 11:53

  OT/

  Just rung up to cancel my SPG Amex, was offered an 1 point per £1 spent for 3 months.
  Am I getting confused with this? or is that just really poor offer?

  Has the earning rate changed with the Marriott Merger?
  Was the original earn 1 per £1? moving to 3 per £1 after the merger?

  Have a £1k purchase to put through, but obviously would rather 3,000 extra instead of the 1,00 old rate.

  • Rob says:

    14 Aug14 August 11:58

    I guess they meant 3 points and the retention offer hasn’t been updated for the SPG / Marriott merge?

    • S**mo says:

      14 Aug14 August 12:18

      Apparently not – I will still only receive 1 point extra (so 4 points…)
      I don’t think this is correct but can’t argue with AMEX any longer….

      When does the new earning rate coming into force?

      • Rob says:

        14 Aug14 August 12:59

        Already has – 1st August.

  • Crafty says:

    14 Aug14 August 18:26

    Which number did you ring? I phoned the number on the back of the card, at roughly 10am, and went through to somewhere abroad, where they told me there is no retention offer.

    Of course there may be no offer *for me*, but I suspect if I can force my call through to Brighton there may well be one…

    • S**mo says:

      15 Aug15 August 11:52

      Just the one from the website:

      Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card: 0800 917 8019
      (from abroad) +44 (0)1273 696 933

• Mike Owen says:

  14 Aug14 August 14:33

  Those photos are clearly photoshopped. Where are all the drunken scousers queuing for their drinks?!?!

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