What Are The Best Airport Lounges In The United States?

There’s no denying that the general standard of airport lounges in the United States isn’t great. If you think of airport lounges, you might think of crowded rooms with outdated furniture, stale snack mix, and cheap chardonnay.

Fortunately not all lounges are created equal, so in this post I want to share some of my favorite airport lounges in the United States. Separately, I’ve written about the world’s best first class lounges, the world’s best business class lounges, and the world’s best oneworld Emerald lounges.

However, I’m not going to do a numerical ranking, since access requirements are so different between lounges. Instead, I’m just going to highlight what I’d consider to be among the best lounges in the United States, across a variety of categories. Essentially, these are the lounges that stand out to me as being special, in one form or another.

With that out of the way, below are some of my favorite airport lounges in the United States, in no particular order. Note that I’m only including lounges that I’ve visited, and if you click the reviews that I link to, you can see all the access policies for these lounges. Also, while we’re at it, the Swissport Lounge Chicago (ORD) is my least favorite lounge.