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IBERIA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE "SALA VIP" REVIEW  - BRUSSELS AIRPORT

Review by : Jan Willem Pronk

Date :   21 September 2009

Very quiet, comfortable seating but a bit dark. Plenty of reading material, OK drinks selection but no real food, cookies and nuts. Secluded and not unpleasant though. No free internet access.

IBERIA SALA VIP BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE REVIEW  - LAS PALMAS AIRPORT

Review by : James Slocombe

Date :   5 May 2009

VIP Sala lounge again disappoints. The general condition of the lounge is still average, with a large seating area and a view (albeit obscured) across the runway. Some of the furniture is worn, especially the chairs in the popular locations (near the windows). The TV, despite being a large LCD, is never really utilised - being tucked away in a corner on channel TVEspana without sound. When I asked to hear the TV (the normal lounge lady wasn't on duty today), the new lounge staff didn't speak English so I had to convert to Spanish. My Spanish is pretty good, but I do expect the airport staff - especially lounge staff - to understand English and respond to me in that language if that is the language of my choice. It didn't set us on the right footing. I was told that sound would disturb others, so she couldn't change the volume. So what is the point of the TV then?, I asked. I got shrugged shoulders. I expressed my displeasure and walked off for a coffee. The coffee was cold. So I went back to the lounge staff. She solved the situation by taking my coffee to the kitchen and (I assume) putting it in the microwave. The cup was too hot to hold! Despite the coffee, the bar/alcoholic drinks selection is superb. Even the soft drinks shine bright - Coke without caffeine, Coke zero, Fanta, milkshakes, fruit juices etc. all being stocked among the usual collection. By far the best collection of cold drinks in one lounge I've seen. However, the food is dire. In fact, it could be described as peanuts. Not even an apple or a rotting banana. Nothing except peanuts and a tea-biscuit. Compare this to the Sala lounge at TFN, a smaller more regional airport serving mostly national Spanish routes, and Tenerife North wins hands down. They even have small sandwiches and a selection of cakes at TFN - but in LPA no!

IBERIA SALA VIP BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE REVIEW  - MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT

Review by : Natalie Edwards

Date :   5 May 2009

A lovely lounge, very spacious. Good range of food and drinks available. Wonderful views across to the mountains. Staff friendly and helpful.

IBERIA SALA VIP BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE REVIEW  - MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT Terminal 4

Review by : N Barnsley

Date :   30 December 2008

Clean, spacious, light, airy and very comfortable lounge, with fantastic views across the apron and on to the snow peaked sierra. Awful catering : at 10.30am, a few "bollos" - sticky buns, some under ripe apples and some packet canape bases but nothing on them! Where were all the delicious things that the Spanish usually do so well for breakfast/mid morning snacks; not to mention something more substantial for passengers having transferred to Barajas through several time zones with body clocks after something resembling lunch or dinner? Staff offhand and indifferent.

IBERIA SALA VIP BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE REVIEW  - LAS PALMAS AIRPORT

Review by : James Slocombe

Date :   14 November 2008

A pleasant open space with comfortable chairs and amenities (washroom etc), but lacking in substance. Catering non-existent, coffee cold, stale biscuits, no internet. Staff tried to be helpful, but English poor. Altogether disappointing.

IBERIA SALA VIP BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE REVIEW  - LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT

Review by : Tony Dang

Date :   3 September 2008

What a disappointment. Used this lounge prior to my morning flight to Madrid. Staff member at the front desk hardly acknowledge you as you walked in. Food selection was extremely poor, nothing more than some stale croissants and some pre packaged mini muffins. Coffee from the machine was horrible. The two computer terminals were both out of order and so were the toilets. Does anything work in this lounge? Lounge was not used much by many of the travellers despite IB having numerous flights leaving around the early morning departure time at LHR, perhaps the frequent travellers knew better than to waste their time.

IBERIA SALA VIP BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE REVIEW  - FRANKFURT AIRPORT

Review by : Roger Stone

Date :   20 August 2008

Used the Iberia business lounge at Frankfurt for their code-share Air Nostrum flights out of Frankfurt. Nice welcome and a good selection of magazines and drinks. I cannot quite get used to the largely European practice of having most washrooms separate from the lounge. At Frankfurt this meant a long precarious walk through an area of terminal refurbishment to a fairly crummy toilet. Surely it would be a good idea to equip business lounges with washrooms! Otherwise, an odd little lounge but a reasonably pleasant overall experience and a place one could work.

IBERIA BUSINESS CLASS GAUDI LOUNGE - BARCELONA AIRPORT

User:    Andrew Ward

Date:   3 November 2007

Visited this lounge on a Sunday afternoon - almost deserted. Comfortable seating and spacious airy atmosphere. No catering to speak of and poor drinks selection. Nothing to read either. Ok place for a bit of peace and quiet but otherwise very dull.

IBERIA BUSINESS CLASS SALA VIP LOUNGE - MADRID AIRPORT

User:    Idat Erdener

Date:   17 September 2007

An excellent lounge, with all imaginable amenities, a silent room with sleeping possibility, huge space, a restaurant for intercontinental passengers who can dine after 9 pm (which could be earlier, I know Spanish people eat late but not everybody does), a wine tasting corner, shower possibilities (great), separate smoking areas etc. Only wireless internet could be also free of charge.

IBERIA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE - BARCELONA AIRPORT

User:    DAVID VLCEK

Date:   15 October 2006

Yet again, after visiting the Iberia Sala VIP lounge at Barcelona airport, it seems that nobody works there.

After arriving in the lounge, tables were overflowing with all sorts of rubbish, glasses were not cleared for couple of hours, lounge was full of smoke.

One of the fridges, which was not working 6 months ago when I was last in this lounge, was still not working this time.