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The Platinum Card® from American Express gives you not only a Priority Pass membership (free entry to over 1,000 lounges worldwide for you and one guest) but also access to American Express’s own lounges: the Centurion Lounges.
Note that The Business Platinum Card from American Express also gets you into the Centurion Lounges. The Aeroplan version, however, does not.
There are only a handful of them, mostly in the United States or in a few cities abroad, such as Hong Kong, which we had the chance to try.
The lounge sits in the heart of the D gates at Las Vegas airport, near gate D1.
It is open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. You can use it on an outbound flight as well as an inbound one. So we used it twice: arriving in Las Vegas around 11 a.m. (which let us eat after a 5-hour flight from Montreal) and leaving Las Vegas at the end of the day.
The primary cardholder can enter, along with two guests.
You cannot really miss the entrance:
The Las Vegas Centurion Lounge is divided into different areas that invite you to relax, with a view over the apron.
The contrasts of colour and woodwork, common to every American Express Centurion Lounge, are a pleasure.
Some seats let you be relatively cut off from your neighbours:
Screens showing flight status are well spread through the whole lounge.
The lounge is far from full:
There is also a corner more dedicated to work (or to fooling around):
At the centre of the lounge sit the buffet and the bar, naturally.
The buffet is not the most generous… but it is of very good quality! Here for instance is a plate put together at 11 a.m. on our arrival from Montreal (the children are wild about the desserts…!)
It is good that the dining room is properly separated from the rest of the lounge.
And a very generous bar (and free).
As in every Centurion Lounge there is a room set aside for children… and it is much appreciated! American Express understood that well.
You can also sit outside that room to eat while keeping an eye on your children!
And of course American Express has put a changing table for the little ones in the restrooms right next door:
This American Express Centurion Lounge in Las Vegas is surely one of the best of the “Centurion” brand in the United States. Having visited it several times over recent months, I have never found it “packed” the way other Centurion lounges can be.
For holders of The Platinum Card® from American Express, it is a required stop on a trip to Las Vegas!
And you, what did you make of this lounge if you have been? Come and talk about it in the Facebook group!
To get into VIP lounges without paying the $50 day pass every time, see our complete guide to free airport VIP lounge access as well as our ranking of the best credit cards for airport VIP lounges, updated every month by the Milesopedia team.
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