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.
![Turkish Airlines Star Alliance Gold Lounge Bangkok (BKK) entrance](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-7-scaled.jpg)
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):
![luggage storage and FIDS](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-8-scaled.jpg)
Apparently, everyone else had opted for every other lounge in the airport, for there was only one other passenger at the time.
![Turkish Airlines Lounge BKK main seating area](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-6-scaled.jpg)
![second seating area](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-2-scaled.jpg)
![BKK exterior view from the lounge](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-5-scaled.jpg)
On that note, did the fare fare fair? (yeesh, languages are weird)
![salad bar](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-3-scaled.jpg)
![drinks](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-9-scaled.jpg)
![fruit and sweets](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-4-scaled.jpg)
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](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-10-scaled.jpg)
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:
![not-so-clean air purifier](https://noworkalltravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Turkish-Airlines-Lounge-Bangkok-BKK-1-scaled.jpg)
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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