Great Space: United Club LAX

The United Club LAX Lounge is a behemoth, spanning 29,000 square feet with commanding views. It’s no surprise, considering that United Airlines has a massive hub in Los Angeles Terminal 7.

Not all United Clubs are equal, this particular lounge just feels better designed. An expansive, open space that seamlessly flows from one chic, minimalist seating area to another, culminating in a sleek bar at the far end. It affords great views all over and a delightful outdoor terrace as a cherry on the top!

Location & Access

This lounge is located near gate 71A at Terminal 7 of Tom Bradley International Airport

It is fairly easy to find your way with sign-posts right after security pointing you in it’s direction.

Eligibility of entry is as follows:

Class Of Service

• United Business (Polaris) Class
• United First To Canada
• Premium transcontinental flights ( LAX-New York Newark only )
• Star Alliance Carrier First Or Business Class

Star Alliance Gold Status

• Via United then must be flying same day international Star Alliance flight
• Via other Star carriers with same day Star Alliance carrier flight (note the difference here if you are Star Gold via another Carrier like Singapore/Turkish etc then you can access even if flying any domestic flight! )
• Both category above are permitted one guest as long as they are on same flight

United Club Membership

Customer with United Club membership including via MileagePlus Credit Card membership are eligible to use lounge with up-to 2 guests.

United Club one-time passes, can be used also.

Others Granted Access

• Active U.S military personnel with travelling family members
• Air Canada Maple Leaf™ Club membership
• Virgin Australia Velocity Frequent Flyer members that are Velocity Gold or above with same day international flight.

United Club LAX Lounge

After going past the reception where staff check you in, you have to take these long escalators up..

Straight up the first thing you see is this well thought out refreshments area with cold juices, tea/coffees and some fruits..

Then you turn left into the main lounge area which is one long space with full floor to ceiling window views!

Everything here is minimal with a good dose of United Blues complemented by the grey leather seating and yellow hues of the lamp creating a more relaxing vibe.

There are restrooms on the other side of this space. As you continue walking in you will find some partitioned areas if you want to sit somewhere to work/without facing anyone else..

There are then more refreshment areas with more snacks and a row of flight display screens

Immediately after this you have the self service buffet area and then more spaces around the bar..

Where ever you chose to sit, there are side consoles and power outlets ( in most places )

Right past the bar you have a smaller room very good views of aircraft in the tarmac..

This space felt somewhat more quiet. These leather swivel chairs are as stylish as they are comfortable. However while most seating spaces had accessible power outlets, there weren’t any in the middle for those chairs..

Perhaps not the biggest of deals as you have work area right behind the wall with sock galore. The view out though, is certainly worth swooning over..

United Club LAX Catering

I arrived at this lounge slightly past 9:30 am for a later morning flight and thus the catering was breakfast.

The self service catering area is one long space along the back of the lounge pretty much running parallel to the bar. What the meant was you won’t likely be bumping into other folks as much.

I’ll cover the main highlights of the offering, starting with some fruits..

followed by cut pineapple, melons, blueberries and various condiments you can make a continental breakfast of sorts with..

To go with that, you have plain yogurt, low fat Greek yogurt and then some overnight oats and Egg salad all added into the mix

You also have some hot cooked oats within the Oatmeal bar area

There were various pastries, muffins and bagels

and finally perhaps the main hot dish was a make your own breakfast burrito

There was a good guacamole mix here as one of the condiments.

I had some fruits and then made myself a breakfast Burrito which I very much enjoyed!

United Club Los Angles Bar

The bar itself is centre piece of the back side of the lounge and it again had a stylish look with the oval ceiling area marking it’s perimeter within..

Being reasonably early in the morning there were no many passengers using the bar. But I did have a soft drink there however.

As usual with other United Club and Delta SkyClub bars, only select soft drinks and alcoholic beverages are free. Anything else more premium you have to pay for. Unfortunately they do not seem to have a fixed menu for this.

United Club Lax Outdoor Terrace

The best feature of this lounge may just be this, it has a outdoor terrace! When I ventured out into it, there were a few people there so I decided not to take any pictures as I didn’t want to capture them.

I then forgot to go back for pictures but here is what they look like courtesy of LoungeIndex:

I can imagine this would be a very nice space to relax/have a drink out over sunset!

Overall Thoughts

I had an enjoyable time here in this lounge and it honestly felt a world away from some of the other lounges I’ve been in like the Club in Denver or many Delta SkyClubs. I think they may be one of the best United Club lounges alongside the newly renovated United Club Chicago, which I briefly visited earlier in the year too.

The main difference in why this is a more relaxing lounge compared to some Delta SkyClub may be that United even restricts Domestic First Class customers from access this!