If you’ve got Priority Pass, and you’re in the international departures area of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), you’ve got heaps of choices for so-so lounges. Yet only after a recent flight from there, I noticed that the Turkish Airlines Lounge BKK, formally known as the Turkish Airlines Star Alliance Gold Lounge, was also available to visit.
In fact, the only reason I wandered over was because the Air France – KLM Lounge had some Japanese jerk videochatting without headphones, and the Miracle Lounges were quite busy.
Located in Concourse D by Gate D8, the Turkish Airlines Lounge BKK is open 24 hours. For those unfamiliar with the airport, lounges are mostly located a floor below where the dining and shopping are; I say mostly because there are a couple of two-floor lounges.
Although I had never visited this lounge before, I had been to TK lounges in Istanbul (the old airport’s version was superior) and Washington Dulles. Whereas hoping for something like the homebase lounge was a ridiculous ask, if they had a small but edible variety of vegetables and mains like the Dulles one, that would’ve been a start.
Check-in was fast since there was no one else around.
Walking in and facing the check-in desk, to your left will be a small luggage storage area and FIDS (flight information display system):
Apparently, everyone else had opted for every other lounge in the airport, for there was only one other passenger at the time.
On that note, did the fare fare fair? (yeesh, languages are weird)
Not much choice for food. At least there were vegetables — and lots of them. Along with the produce were bowls of instant noodles, some way too sweet Thai desserts, a couple of mains, and some mysterious crust-less sandwiches.
As for drinks, alongside bottle water, sodas, and regular coffee was this unique discovery to the BKK lounge scene:
Turkish coffee! If you’ve never had the pleasure, it’s mud with a kick. Lacking sleep for most of my time in Bangkok, I found it the one consumable + to the Turkish Airlines Lounge BKK.
But wait … there was a health benefit to being in the lounge, too:
More helpful would be a shrill multilingual voice berating people for placing their feet on chairs.
There really wasn’t much else to the place. Showers did exist, but I forgot to ask if they were in operation. Nevertheless, it was a quiet place to wile away my 15 remaining minutes before boarding my flight to Shanghai.
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