Heathrow 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. The House in Terminal 4 is temporarily closed and is not listed.

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.

The finding that matters: not one Heathrow lounge publishes a single facility aimed at children — no kids’ zone, no playroom, no games. Gatwick has four lounges that do. If you are flying with young children and have a choice of London airport, that is a real difference. Within Heathrow, the No1-group lounges charge about £25 for a child while the Plaza Premium lounges charge the full adult fare — on a family of four that is a £48 gap. See our UK family lounge guide for age limits by brand.

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.

Heathrow beats Gatwick on two things a working traveller cares about. Meeting rooms: the No1 lounges in T2 and T3 are the only two at either airport that publish one. Showers: every Plaza Premium lounge here has them and no Gatwick lounge does — which makes T5’s Plaza Premium, open from 04:45, the obvious choice off a red-eye. If you fly through often enough, work out whether a membership beats paying at the door with our Priority Pass break-even calculator.

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