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ANA Lounge Lisbon Airport Review

The ANA Lounge Lisbon is large. It has a full bar and runway views. However, the lounge is let down by the food selection. Just sandwiches and small items.

It’s a decent place to spend 1 hour before your flight, but no more.

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What I liked

  • Large lounge. Lots of seating
  • Runway views
  • Full bar
  • Swanky coffee machine

What Can Be Improved

  • Food was underwhelming
  • The space was dark

The Entry Requirements

You can pay for entry to the lounge. The cost is €26 for 3 hours. 

I gained entry to the lounge with my Priority Pass Card. 

Priority Pass is the largest Airport Lounge Network in the world. With over 1,600 locations. You flash your Priority Pass card and get access to the lounge. With all you can eat food, unlimited alcohol and free wi-fi. On average, I save €60 when I go into an airport lounge. That’s what I would pay for food, drinks and wi-fi in the terminal. If you drink more alcohol, then you’ll save more!

You can sign up to Priority Pass on this website. This is a special link, that provides a 30% discount. The standard plus membership costs €231. For that you get 10 free visits. So each visit costs 
€23.10.

The Lounge

The ANA Lounge Lisbon is a large space, with lots of seating and high ceilings. It looks out to the runway. Although the view is heavily obstructed by shutters on the windows. These shutters are really annoying. They prevent light from coming in and obstruct the view of the runway. If the windows didn’t have shutters, then the lounge will be a much nicer place.

There was a magazine rack, although not many English options. There was also a smoking room, which is still a fairly common fixture in European airports.

There wasn’t a wide variety of seating options at the Lisbon Airport Lounge. It was mainly low style leather lounge seats. 

The Food

The food at the Lisbon Airport Lounge wasn’t great.

There was a small counter with refreshments. The choice was rather underwhelming. It consisted of the following:

  • Sandwiches
  • Cakes
  • Snacks in a packet
  • Apples and bananas
  • No hot food


The sandwiches weren’t the greatest. I had one ham baguette, some cakes and some snacks. 

I don’t understand why the lounge can’t provide hot food. It’s a big lounge with a lot of customers, and there would be lots of demand for hot food. It can’t be too difficult to make some pizza in an oven, can it?!

I’ve been to a lot of lounges, and there’s so much variation in food quality. I prefer a lounge that has a smaller selection of high quality dishes. I visited the Swiss Business Class Lounge in Zurich at breakfast time. The lounge is tiny, but they had a couple of high quality egg dishes. They also had fresh fruit and breads. 

The drinks

The drinks selection was the best thing about the ANA Lounge Lisbon! The wine selection included Prosecco, and there was a decent choice of beer and spirits too.

There was a separate drinks station, which contained tea, coffee and good range of juices. The coffee machine was quite fancy, and my wife enjoyed the latte she had!

My Take on the ANA Lounge Lisbon

The ANA Lounge Lisbon is ok, but is let down by the disappointing food options. My view is that a lounge should feed you before your flight. We all need to eat! On this area, the lounge fell short. However on the positive side, the lounge is large and has a good alcohol selection.

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I stayed at Intercontinental Estoril in Lisbon. Review here. A lovely 5* hotel, right on the sea. It’s also great value. I paid €140/night. The hotel has an indoor and outdoor pool. The breakfast was great. My room had lovely sea view too.

One of my very favourite lounges in Europe has to be the Air France Lounge, CDG, Paris. The lounge has gorgeous runway views, free spa treatments and champagne bottles everywhere! Check out my review for a great shot of a Delta jet.

The Intercontinental Paris Le Grand is IHG’s flagship hotel in Paris, but I wasn’t impressed with my stay. I got an awful room looking at the interior of the hotel. In addition, they only offer instant coffee in the rooms – no coffee machine! That being said, the hotel design was pretty special.


 

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