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Star Alliance Lounge Sao Paulo: Sleep, Eat, Shower

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The Star Alliance Lounge Review Sao Paulo is part of the South America & Africa Points Heist Trip Report.

What do you do when you have a twelve hour layover in Brazil? The answer, if you do not have a visa, is to stay in the lounge all day. The lounge opens at 7AM and I arrived 7 minutes before that. I entered using my Priority Pass card because I did not have a boarding pass yet for my business class flight on South African. Note: If you go in the Priority Pass way, you have to pay for the shower. a sign on a wall

The Seating
With no one in the lounge, I was free to take pictures of all the seating and find a restful spot where I would spend my day. ‎I settled for a lawn chair which was next to a power outlet. I slept there, semi-comfortably, for five hours after a bad breakfast.

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The Breakfast
How were the eggs cold when the place just opened? That was not the way to start the lounge marathon.a shelf with liquor bottles and a dispensera refrigerator with cans of soda and water a table with food on it a trays of pastries on a counter a tray of food in a container a table with food on it a buffet with food on the counter a plate of food and a bottle of juice

The Lunch
After a bad breakfast and a long nap, I went for lunch. The lunch selection was much better. It included hot dogs, rice, curry, and pasta.two bottles of wine in a bucket of ice a group of wine bottles on a tablea buffet with food in containers a table with plates of food a buffet with food in containers a group of white ramekins with yellow liquid in them a table with food and drinks

The Wi-Fi
Unlike the Priority Pass SCL, this lounge had Wi-Fi. It was very slow making me wonder how this nomad lifestyle will ever be possible.

The Shower
I had to walk to the end of the terminal to get a boarding pass in order to not be charged for a shower. After the wine tasting in Colchagua, the lounge and flight to GRU, it was worth the walk.a bottle of liquid and soap

Overall
It’s a very nice lounge, one that reminded me of the Air China Lounge in Beijing because it is above the terminal. While breakfast was bad, everything else was good.a large airport with many people walking around

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2 COMMENTS

  1. About a year ago, I spent the day in this lounge. Like you, I didn’t have my South African boarding pass yet, but told them at check in and showed my on-phone reservation. There’s an agent later in the day who prints your boarding pass for you, and in the meantime you have full access to the lounge and shower. I agree the food was uninspired. I lived on water, coffee and some nibbles, and enjoyed the peace and quiet til getting on towards flight times

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