Which Lounge at Birmingham Airport?

[blueg33]

Simple question.

Trying to work out which is the best lounge at BHX. I won't be able to access the Emirates lounge but looking for somewhere peaceful with reasonable food offerings early afternoon. Flying with jet2 if that makes any difference. maybe they use gate 1 so a lounge near gate 40 may be an issue?

The choices are:

Aspire Lounge £36.99
Aspire Lounge (South) £36.99
No1 Lounge £34.00
Clubrooms £34.00

Is it case of you get what you pay for? the Clubroom is near gate 54 so may be miles away from where we need to be, but describes itself as the "Most Premium Lounge at Birmingham"

I appreciate that none of these are the Concorde Lounge!

[MatteAva]

Out of these Clubroom is superior for me.
Not sure if it is worth £30+ but you can find reviews for all of them here
https://www.headforpoints.com/uk-airport-lounge-re...

[JBW11]

When I used to use BHX every week my preference was No1 lounge, Aspire (South) then Aspire - I never used Clubrooms as I didn't have free access - but it did look pretty nice when I wandered past to board my flight.

[Baldchap]

Certainly one of the Aspire ones is awful (or was a few years back when I used it). We actually left to get some food.

There's a big restaurant/pub with a decent bar off the main bit at BHX, I forget the name but all the edge tables have power etc. If I'm flying without a lounge I tend to hole up in there these days. Caveat: I don't travel in school holidays unless I can help it - it might be absolute chaos at those times.

[SP_]

Clubrooms is best for that price. Then, the No1 lounge.

[blueg33]

We are going at the beginning of September, just outside the school holidays so it maybe ok. I was hoping to find something that is marginally better to eat than the main eateries airside as they are pretty rubbish. We will need to get lunch before our flight.

I didn't find the online reviews that helpful TBH, hence asking here.

[Waffles16]

Not Birmingham but used Aspire at Heathrow this year - had a Bronze BA card so did not pay to go in. It was horrible. The 'free' food was a couple of lettuce leaves, sad looking sausages and slices of plain, sad looking pizza. I guess the drinks were 'free' but watered down coke I can do without. I really felt for the people who had paid to get in. We ended up leaving and having breakfast with the hoi polloi and it was much better and less crowded.

[Mikebentley]

Just been through Birmingham twice in the last 10 days. On the outbound with a departure time of 0730hrs I was shocked at the lack of seating anywhere. I would absolutely always book a lounge for the family in future so would like to hear how you get on.

[SP_]

Also Clubrooms is only around the corner from the No1 lounge, Birmingham is not a huge airport so the locations of them all are fine IME

[acer12]

blueg33 said:

Simple question.

Trying to work out which is the best lounge at BHX. I won't be able to access the Emirates lounge but looking for somewhere peaceful with reasonable food offerings early afternoon. Flying with jet2 if that makes any difference. maybe they use gate 1 so a lounge near gate 40 may be an issue?

The choices are:

Aspire Lounge £36.99
Aspire Lounge (South) £36.99
No1 Lounge £34.00
Clubrooms £34.00

I appreciate that none of these are the Concorde Lounge!

None of those are worth anything more than £20

[blueg33]

Thanks all

We have concluded it’s just not worth it.

We will have lunch at the Malt Shovel at Barston before going to the airport and just hang around with the masses at the airport.

Ps. I can highly recommend the Malt Shovel, it’s about 15 mins from the airport.

[Regbuser]

Yes it's good, as is the Fox at CdB

[-Cappo-]

I used to be a frequent flyer and had access to most of the "standard" lounges. Going back 15 years, they were somewhere quiet to sit but you weren't going to get fed and watered particularly well. Since the advent of Mr & Mrs Chav and their 6 offspring being given "free" access with a token from their box of chicken nuggets, they're pretty much somewhere to avoid at all costs.