LoungePair Guide: Access Airport Lounges for Less

Prefer to wait for your flight in the comfort of an airport lounge?

There are several ways to get into airport lounges. These include:

• With a Business or First Class ticket,
• If you hold frequent flyer status with the airline you’re flying (or one of their partners),
• With a Priority Pass membership,
• With an airline lounge membership (e.g. Qantas Club or Virgin Australia Lounge membership), or
• Through your credit card.

But if you don’t qualify through one of the above criteria – or perhaps you’re travelling on an airline that you don’t normally fly – another option could be to buy a lounge pass.

Many airport lounges offer single-entry passes for a fee. Although you can often buy these directly from the lounge operator, you might be able to get a better price using LoungePair!

What is LoungePair?

As the name suggests, LoungePair is a service that connects travellers with airport lounges around the world. Through LoungePair, you can buy access to hundreds of airport lounges – often at cheaper prices than you can get anywhere else.

To buy airport lounge access through LoungePair, you don’t need airline status or a Business Class ticket. You can use their partner lounges regardless of the airline you’re flying or the type of ticket you’ve booked. You just need to show your lounge access voucher and a same-day boarding pass at the door.

Why use LoungePair?

LoungePair is not the only place where you can buy one-time airport lounge passes. But it’s often the cheapest – and even if it’s not, you can easily check this because the LoungePair website also shows you the other places where you can buy a pass for the same lounge! The prices for all options are listed, and if it’s cheaper to buy elsewhere, you can simply click out to the other website.

You don’t need a membership to buy lounge access through LoungePair, as you would with the likes of Priority Pass.

After buying your pass from LoungePair you’ll receive it straight away. The pass is transferable and valid for six months.

There’s also a special discount available for AFF members! See below for details.

Which airport lounges partner with LoungePair?

LoungePair directly sells passes for around 440 lounges in approximately 250 airports around the world.

This includes the following five lounges in Australia:

Their website also lists options to purchase access to many other lounges that sell access, even if LoungePair doesn’t directly sell passes – so you can see all the available options. You can find the full list on the LoungePair website.

The most popular lounges

LoungePair sells the most passes to Australians for access to the following airport lounges:

• Delhi (DEL) – Encalm Lounge
• Taipei (TPE) – Plaza Premium Lounge
• Phuket (HKT) – The Coral Lounge

Worldwide, LoungePair’s best-selling airports are Cancun (CUN) and Delhi (DEL).

Bid for sleeping pods

LoungePair also lets you bid for access to the sleep ‘n fly sleeping pods and showers at Dubai (DXB) and Doha (DOH) airports. This works a bit like bidding for an upgrade to Business Class on an airline. You can name your price for the use of a sleeping pod at a particular time, and if sleep ‘n fly accepts your bid then it’s yours.

Discount for AFF members

We’ve teamed up with LoungePair to create a special offer for AFF Silver, Gold and Platinum members!

AFF Silver members can get a 16% discount off airport lounge passes bought directly from LoungePair. AFF Gold and Platinum members get an even more generous 21% discount.

To claim your discount, visit the AFF Member Lounge and ensure you’re logged into your AFF account. If your AFF membership level gets you access to discounted LoungePair products, you’ll be able to click “Get your discount” in the LoungePair section under “Member Discounts”:

You’ll then be asked to fill out a short form. Once we’ve verified your details, you’ll receive a unique one-time coupon code by email.

As an AFF Silver, Gold or Platinum member, you can use the LoungePair discount as many times as you like. However, you may only request one code at a time. Each coupon code is valid once, for a single purchase.

Matt Graham

The editor of Australian Frequent Flyer, Matt's passion for travel has taken him to over 90 countries… with the help of frequent flyer points, of course!
Matt's favourite destinations (so far) are Germany, Brazil & Kazakhstan. His interests include aviation, economics & foreign languages, and he has a soft spot for good food and red wine.

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