Terminal 2, Frankfurt Airport, Germany

Introduction

Neil Scrivener reviews the Priority Lounge in Frankfurt’s Terminal 2, accessed by Priority Pass.

This is my review of the Priority Lounge in Frankfurt’s Terminal 2; quite interestingly, this is next door to the PrimeClass lounge, which seemingly also accepts Priority Pass.

Visited

June 2024 at 18:30

Opening Hours

The lounge is open daily from 06:30 to 19:30

Entry Conditions

This lounge is ‘technically’ the ‘official lounge’ for Cathay Pacific and Qatar Airways, but there is also the JAL Lounge too – which is also closer to the gate that Cathay and Qatar seem to depart from!

Otherwise, entry to the lounge is can be via Priority Pass, or American Express Platinum Card. Possibly other passes such as Dragon Pass gain you access, but I am not 100% sure.

It is also possible to pay to access the lounge on the door for 3 hours, at a cost of €45.

How to Get There

This lounge is located on Level 3, opposite Gate E8.

You’ll find the entrance to the lounge, which is well signposted.

Layout

To begin with, this lounge was absolutely rammed! I suspect if I had been accessing on a Priority Pass, I would have been turned away. But the lady on the desk did ask if I was Qatar Airways, and let me in!

Seemingly, once a flight to India departed the lounge became quieter.

There are two ‘wings’ to this lounge. Both of them contain almost exclusively dining seating, with some lounge seating.

Usually when I do lounge pictures, I try to avoid taking pictures of ‘people’, and try and do so in the abstract. In the case of the man sitting at the long table, I make a total exception – as he was one of THE most obnoxious knobheads I have ever seen in an airport lounge. He slunk drink after drink, had his phone on speaker at MAXIMUM VOLUME and shouted into his phone like he was in an empty room……and he didn’t seem that drunk either! Fortunately, he left when the flight to India boarded – so good luck on that flight!

Another thing I really like about this lounge is the ‘mini offices’. There aren’t many, and annoyingly people were using them to eat their dinner at – but these are great for working – and perhaps even taking the odd discrete call.

And……..that’s pretty much it!

Food and Drink

Drinks

The drinks in this lounge were a really nothing special.

The usual self-serve coffee machines, coupled with fridges of drinks…. however this was the hottest day of the year in Frankfurt – and the water (and other drinks) were fast disappearing and not being replenished. Likewise, it could have been because my visit was around 18:30, and the lounge closes at 19:30 – but really it’s no excuse.

Food

I’ve said this many many times on this blog, but Germans are not renowned for their abilities to cook……and this is a good example of precisely that.

The offerings were bread, some gross looking frankfurter sausages, some weird hot dishes – and some pick and mix items, with nothing to put them in.

And that was it!

Wifi

Wifi in the lounge did not work! This was very annoying, as I had to do a Zoom call and achieved it be tethering off my phone in the end!

Showers

This was the hottest day of the year in Frankfurt, and with an overnight flight coming up I was very glad that there were showers available and, unlike the Primeclass lounge I wasn’t told it would be €15.

The showers where were decent, and hot. But the towels were about the size of a postage stamp and the thickness of two sheets of paper!

Conclusion

I always find that Priority Lounges are hit and miss…. This was more miss than hit. The food was bad, drinks average but not re-stocked, the Wifi didn’t work, and it was rammed. Small saving graces were in little ‘office’ areas, which I thought were great – and also the shower.

Then…….when I consider that this lounge is technically the Cathay and Qatar lounge, and those paying full price Qatar Airways tickets would be given this as their lounge – it really, at that level, is far from acceptable!