London (LHR) airport lounges — which credit card
gets you in
Heathrow Airport runs 12 lounges we can put a source under. 58 of the 107 cards we track open at least
one of those doors
— 32 of them only if you clear a spend or tier gate.
Below: every door with its terminal, hours, stay cap, guest fee and the exact cards that walk
in. No "check with your bank".
12 lounges2 access networks1 A-grade of 12 graded
Which card gets you in
Lounge access is not one thing — it is 2 different machines at this airport, and your card is on some of them and not others. Each block below is one
machine: the doors it opens here, and every tracked card that carries it. A card in more than
one block gets in more than one way.
Priority Pass
12 of 12 doors · 55 cards
A membership your card carries. The kit arrives by post, the door reads the membership — not the card.
Opens: Plaza Premium Lounge ×2 · No1 Lounge · Club Aspire Lounge · Plaza Premium Lounge (Departures) · No.1 Lounge · My Lounge · Clubrooms · Plaza Premium Lounge (Arrivals) · Blush Lounge by Plaza Premium Group · Evergreen Bar & Restaurant · The Globe Pub & Kitchen
° The access is spend- or tier-gated: hover the card, or open its page for the exact
trigger. A gate you miss is a door that does not open, whatever the brochure said.
Every lounge at LHR, door by door
Terminal, side of security, operator, hours, stay cap, guest fee, walk-in price — and the
cards that walk in. Each door carries the document we read it from.
The busiest PP lounge at Heathrow — pre-booking is effectively mandatory; no longer T5's only PP room now that Plaza Premium's T5 Departures lounge has joined the network.
PPG's smaller bar-style second room in T4 — PP's live listing now shows morning hours only (07:00–10:30), so it covers the breakfast bank and nothing else; the full Plaza Premium nearby is the all-day seat.
2 doors here publish a
walk-in price. Pay it and you are in, card or no card — the prices are the operators' own
published rates, and desks quote higher at peak. Everything else at LHR is
cards-and-invites only.
Plaza Premium LoungeT2£44
No1 LoungeT3£40-55
Worth doing the arithmetic before you swipe: a ₹3,000 walk-in is a bad trade against a card
whose whole annual fee buys a season of visits — that comparison is exactly what
the lounge-card ranking computes.
This is one airport out of 119 with a page of its own — the full
map, every airport and every railway lounge we hold, is on
the lounge map.