Know which lounge will let you in before you get to the airport.

Lounge access comes from a program: a lounge network like Priority Pass, an airline club, or a card issuer's own lounges. Every lounge page lists the programs that admit you. Add the credit cards and airline status you hold to your profile, and the lounges you can use are highlighted everywhere on the site.

Premium cards usually bundle one or more lounge networks — that's what the card pages record. Each one shows the networks the card unlocks, any guest rules attached, the annual fee, and how many lounges in the directory it actually gets you into.

Lounge pages show the posted opening hours in the airport's own timezone, and an open-now badge computed against that timezone. Hours change without notice, so treat them as the schedule the lounge publishes rather than a promise.

Each lounge is scored 1 to 5 on individual metrics — food, drinks, showers, seating, quiet, and the rest — and its overall rating is the average of the metrics that have been scored. They are editorial scores, not an average of user reviews.

Yes. Browsing the directory needs no account. Signing in only adds your cards and status so the site can tell you which lounges will let you in.