Qantas Lounge Options at Tokyo Narita with Family

[Flyer-MG]

Left Tokyo tonight with my family of four. QF Platinum and find there’s no lunge anymore, just the generic Aspire lounge. Platinum gets one guest, can pay for the two children.

The lounge is open to anybody me who pays, so you might as well say your QF status is just saving $150 off entry. It’s pretty average compared with Qantas FF domestic lounges and not even close to the updated business lounges. If we had the time again, I’d just pay to go into one of the great restaurants here and forget the lounge. Qantas doesn’t exist here.

before anyone asks, yes, I could get into the One World as an Emerald reciprocal member. But only with one guest. So instead of sitting in the JAL First lounge, we’re here in Aspire.

 

[kamchatsky]

Left Tokyo tonight with my family of four. QF Platinum and find there’s no lunge anymore, just the generic Aspire lounge. Platinum gets one guest, can pay for the two children.

The lounge is open to anybody me who pays, so you might as well say your QF status is just saving $150 off entry. It’s pretty average compared with Qantas FF domestic lounges and not even close to the updated business lounges. If we had the time again, I’d just pay to go into one of the great restaurants here and forget the lounge. Qantas doesn’t exist here.

before anyone asks, yes, I could get into the One World as an Emerald reciprocal member. But only with one guest. So instead of sitting in the JAL First lounge, we’re here in Aspire.

I am OW Ruby so no lounges for me and my family at Narita T2 3 weeks ago. Then again, my +1 hates going to lounges as it stopped her from going to airport shops.

We ended up spending at Japan Food Hall for delicious (and fairly pricey) food, plus spend most of the time at Fa-So-La Akihabara. There were a lot of Japanese souvenir food to buy home.

 

[Himeno]

The NRT Aspire lounge is the old Qantas lounge.
Aspire took it over when Qantas closed it in 2020

 

[henrus]

Assuming they go ahead with the flight changes, it's possible by April that Narita won't be serviced by Qantas at all. The slot currently used by Virgin on their CNS-HND is expected to become Qantas BNE-HND.

 

[Flyer-MG]

I am OW Ruby so no lounges for me and my family at Narita T2 3 weeks ago. Then again, my +1 hates going to lounges as it stopped her from going to airport shops.

We ended up spending at Japan Food Hall for delicious (and fairly pricey) food, plus spend most of the time at Fa-So-La Akihabara. There were a lot of Japanese souvenir food to buy home.

That sounds like the way to go. The Aspire lounge is nowhere near as nice as the places to eat at the airport.

 

[surfnwine]

I am tackling this airport tomorrow with the family (wife + 4yo and 8yo). I was thinking to pay entry for one child into Aspire with wife as guest, then duck over to JAL lounge with other child as guest.

Would that work? And probably best use of perks/$?

 

[jamesatfish]

Resurrecting this thread as I ran into this issue myself this week, having not travelled to Japan for a very long time (when QF still had a lounge at Narita).

3 of us flying QF J, myself as P1, my wife and pre-teen daughter SG. Obviously no problems with all of us using the F Lounge in Sydney as Qantas don't treat under-18s as taking a guest allocation.

JL however consider anyone over 2 as a lounge guest, so they would only allow 2 of us into the F lounge. We wanted to stay together so we ended up in the JL Sakura lounge where the food and drink options were worse than the general airport restaurants.

A first world problem of course, but it's certainly frustrating when QF don't operate their own lounge at one of their popular destinations and the available partner lounge has more restrictive access rules.

 

[offshore171]

A first world problem of course, but it's certainly frustrating when QF don't operate their own lounge at one of their popular destinations and the available partner lounge has more restrictive access rules.

I believe this is reciprocal., and QF applies the same rule to JAL.

Ie: Jal FF's or J travellers on JAL flights get only 1 guest at QF lounges, with under 18's counted as guests. (eg: JAL flights out of Sydney where JAL doesn't operate its own lounge)

Qantas does a "special" deal at its own lounges for Qantas flyers where they allow kids under 18 without counting them in the guest tally.

You're certainly right about terminal restaurants - often a better option, particularly out of Haneda. Appreciate it's not always possible to choose Haneda over Narita, but where it's an option, it's the better choice.

 

[moa999]

frustrating when QF don't operate their own lounge at one of their popular destinations

NRT isn't the QF hub it used to be. Only two flights a day to MEL and BNE.

Flight to SYD run double daily from HND, where QF also doesn't have a lounge.

The under 18 issue is common in non-QF lounges unfortunately.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Resurrecting this thread as I ran into this issue myself this week, having not travelled to Japan for a very long time (when QF still had a lounge at Narita).

3 of us flying QF J, myself as P1, my wife and pre-teen daughter SG. Obviously no problems with all of us using the F Lounge in Sydney as Qantas don't treat under-18s as taking a guest allocation.

JL however consider anyone over 2 as a lounge guest, so they would only allow 2 of us into the F lounge. We wanted to stay together so we ended up in the JL Sakura lounge where the food and drink options were worse than the general airport restaurants.

A first world problem of course, but it's certainly frustrating when QF don't operate their own lounge at one of their popular destinations and the available partner lounge has more restrictive access rules.

Give your Platinum to your wife.
Would solve that problem.

 

[jamesatfish]

The under 18 issue is common in non-QF lounges unfortunately.

Yup, I first encountered that when AA considered my then 5-month old daughter as a guest for lounge access purposes at the LAX Flagship lounge.

Give your Platinum to your wife.
Would solve that problem.

Yup, that one came back to bite me. The 3 of us cancelled a UK trip right when the Middle East kicked off earlier this year which would have had both my wife and daughter ticked over to WP in their own right, so I had already gifted that P1 perk to another family member.

This scenario annoyed me a little more than it should because we usually don't have an issue with lounge access when booked in F, as we would have been for this trip if JL hadn't changed their 777 to a 787 for August and we ended up on QF J instead.

 

[I love to travel]

I wish QF had gone ahead and consolidated to HND, NRT is a pain especially when arriving at one and departing from another

 

[moa999]

wish QF had gone ahead and consolidated to HND,

I'm sure they would if they are able to get the necessary slots.