El Al Israel Airlines

✅ Trip Verified | The lounge located next to the A gates on the second floor. You should pass the (stinky) smoking area and a few steps after is the entrance. This lounge is dedicated to El Al only and part of the King David lounge you will find in some countries like JFK, Tel Aviv etc. When you enter the lounge the 80' hits you big time! It's like a call from the past. The furniture is the old version of the Tel Aviv old Kind David and have seen better days. The design is like a big mistake, no showers, slow WIFI. The food is totally uneatable, poor, and old as the look of the lounge. "Kibuts" from the 80' offer better meal and better look. Overall – one of the poorest lounge I've seen.

✅ Verified Review | Nice and basic lounge at the second floor of the B terminal. Serve mostly US, Israel and Golf airline The food is very very basic, same as the drinks. They have two showers in case its needed and the shower kit is nice. This lounge has kind of refurbishment during 2017 so this is much better than in the past but again- still very basic

✅ Verified Review | Located at the 2nd floor of the airport. If you fly international out of the EU you still need to go through passport control on the 1st floor. I was here about a year ago and this lounge had a nice refurbishment, its big enough, lots of seats and nice catering. They have variety of food - salads , risotto, pasta, pizza, sandwiches, fruits and drinks - hot and cold. Overall good place to spend before the flight with a nice view on the runway.

✅ Verified Review | Old and basic. Located at the end of A gate. Basic food like a few cakes. Small sandwiches with meat and cheese. Automatic Coffee machine branded Nescafé and very basic tea options. The place is clean and no additional staff team are located in the lounge.

Mediocre like everything else on El Al. The lounge is okay but kind of run down. The food is okay but not great. The staff is polite but not welcoming. The bottom line is that I would never pay to use the El Al lounge at either JFK or TLV. If the ticket is free then go ahead.

Clean and spacious lounge with a very large food selection. Furthermore shower facilities (not used by me) and even spa facilities (again - not used by me). Computer terminals good view onto the tarmac. Lounge has a large number of El Al staff members on duty which are all eager to help. Much better then the Dan lounge which is used by other airlines in Tel Aviv.

The new Terminal 3 has a large well-appointed King David Lounge in addition to the tired and overcrowded Dan Lounge. (Anybody with a gold credit card can get access to the Dan lounge - regardless of service class.) King David access is restricted to El Al passengers in business class (there is a separate First Class lounge I cannot vouch for) or to members of the King David Club (El Al's upper-tier frequent flyer program also available for an annual fee). I have a King David pass from work and use the lounge whenever I fly out. It is located at the beginning of the "D" concourse to your left - the four concourses are four compass points on the central atrium. There is good food available in the Mediterranean style (kosher dairy and parve) - as well as cakes espresso machines soft drinks. Many seats have power outlets next to them (make sure you have a Euro/Israeli 2-prong plug or adapter) as well as Ethernet ports. There's an upstairs deck if it's too crowded downstairs which also offers workstations with PCs (in case you didn't bring your own laptop) as well as a branch of Carmel Forest Spa (no experience cannot comment). There is also a business center downstairs as well as a service desk. Design is pretty nifty. I haven't seen a huge selection of alcoholic beverages but I'm not much of a drinker so it doesn't bother me. Coffee is as good as can be expected from automated espresso machines.

Dan Lounge is the ONLY lounge at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv regardless of carrier! The lounge is always packed and with Israeli backpackers and whole extended families that are clearly not traveling in First or Business Class! I think they have some kind of deal with a credit card company or something which allows easy access to the airports ONLY lounge. It only has two toilet cubicles that are unisex and one was out of order so men women and children all had to line up to use the one cubicle! The cold food and beverage table seemed more like a school lunch line with children and youth grabbing things and small children playing with the espresso machine. Last but not least airport staff and airline maintenance and ground crew come through to grab food and drinks laid out for the passengers. I witnessed an aircraft maintenance guy come through a back door and with his clearly dirty fingers and overalls finger several pieces of cake till he found one in the middle he liked stuffed it in his mouth leaving the others aside and walked out the same way he came in! Ben Gurion need to open several lounges to meet the need of its passengers and levels and status. Truly the worst airport lounge I've been in. Really disappointing since the new terminal 3 is so nice!