Gatwick Airport lounges compared

Every lounge side by side

Sorted by terminal, then price. Prices are each operator’s own published from-rate. Book goes to our booking partner where they sell the lounge, and to the operator where they don’t.

Best with young children

Two things decide a family booking: whether the lounge will take your children at all, and what a child actually costs. Child prices below are Lounge Pass’s published child rate, which is the only child pricing published consistently across these lounges.

Gatwick is the better London airport for families and it is not close. Four lounges here publish something specifically for children — games rooms at both My Lounges, a kids’ zone at the Plaza Premium in North and a kids’ zone with a playroom at Plaza Express — against none at Heathrow. My Lounge in North Terminal has the cheapest child rate at either airport at £21. Both Clubrooms are 12+ only and cannot be booked for a child at any price. More on age limits by brand in our UK family lounge guide.

Best for business travellers

Sorted by opening time, because for a 06:00 departure that is the only thing that matters. Work facilities list only what the operator’s own page names — where it says nothing, we say nothing rather than assume.

The one at Gatwick worth doing the maths on is Clubrooms: £44 in either terminal with Fast Track security included in the booking, against £38 for My Lounge without it. Once you price Fast Track separately the gap closes to a few pounds, and you get hosted table service for it. The trade-offs: no Gatwick lounge publishes a shower or a meeting room, and Clubrooms does not open until 05:00 in North and 06:00 in South. If you fly through often, our Priority Pass break-even calculator works out whether a membership beats paying each time.

Been to a lounge at Gatwick? We’d like to publish real visitor experiences alongside these picks — email kieran@clubairside.co.uk and tell us what it was actually like.