An Airport Lounge Drove Me Insane 🤪

Scene: Atlanta airport (ATL).

I found myself with a 3-hour layover en route to Las Vegas.

For such a large airport, ATL’s food options are sparse. Especially at 8 AM.

There are only two lounges in ATL. As I didn’t have the right AMEX card to get into the Delta lounge, I ended up at ATL Club Lounge.

I like airport lounges.

There’s free wifi.

Clean bathrooms.

Friendly staff.

Clean seating and tables.

Free food and drinks.

It’s worth the $50 entry fee.

Usually.

This one in Atlanta had the wifi and bathrooms part handled.

The staff was… tolerant. Not friendly.

It wasn’t very clean.

The food sucked.

The mini-buffet table had some parfait / yogurt dish, scrambled eggs, and muffins.

No, no, and no.

I got on my laptop and cleared out some e-mail. Wrote some articles. Made a few calls.

During my 90 minutes in the lounge, I walked through the mini-buffet three times and looked at the same stuff.

Guess I was hoping the food would magically become better if I looked again.

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