Dublin Airport Lounge- Which would you recommend?

I’m back in today and you can actually see planes from the window seats

I presume this BA tail is parked up at the 335 gate ?

(The dinnertime food spread today is impressive,quite a few hot options and delicious plus a sandwich spread and an awful lot of cakes,the draft Guinness and Rockshore you do not pay for at the bar either,just the cocktails which are €8)

Booked it on the €25 offer for one of my flights next month. Will see what its like

I've got a two leg journey on BA coming up - the first in economy to LHR, then business class onwards from there. Both on BA flights and not codeshares.

Has anyone gotten into any of the Dublin lounges on a similar itinerary? Google is telling me that since my second leg is business class on the same calendar day, and on IAG, I should have access to the Aer Lingus lounge, but it doesn't seem too definitive.

edit: I just found this on the oneworld site for anyone else in a similar situation:

"Connecting between oneworld marketed and operated flights: First and Business Class customers connecting on the same day of travel can access the lounge when travelling between an international long haul (a oneworld international long haul flight is defined as an international flight marketed and operated by any oneworld carrier with a scheduled flight time longer than 5 hours) and an international short haul or domestic flight (and vice-versa)."

My second flight is only 4 hours but I'll chance my arm I guess, hopefully they have some flexibility.

They are accepting the dragon pass on Revolut ultra,no problem

Martello has never accepted dragon pass,nor has it been offered as an available lounge

Here’s what appears on mine as options

+1 on this, I’d be surprised if they let you in. They’ve become very strict on these things.

+1 on all of that.

IMHO - That is correct and exactly what they are doing. They want to sell as many entries as they can from their own website etc and basically happy then to stop pass holders getting in but then again happy to milk pass holders (as they get paid anyway for every pass holder visit but just a little less as they are group discounts) when the airport is quiet late in the evening etc. It's basically DAA running an airport to fleece people as much as they can and not worry about providing quality service or customer support. A properly run airport will have enough lounge capacity to cope with peak demand and it should value any form of pass holder as they are likely quite regular flyers. But this mentality is typical of the DAA, customers are there to be milked and treated like cattle. Even in many of the UK airports which are quite busy and notoriously crowded lounge access I think is easier. I often access lounges with a business ticket but also have a Priority Pass and Dragon Pass through card schemes. I was in Edinburgh on business recently and Edinburgh airport is quite old and had access to THREE lounges via Priority Pass for example and they have in total 4 lounges in a terminal which carries fewer passengers than Dublin Airport Terminal 1 does annually !! And they are all large lounges. Just checked the Priority pass app there now and it shows no lounges available in Dublin Airport Terminal 1 and the tiny 'Liffey Lounge' which is a really poor small lounge as the only option in Terminal 2. I understand Priority Pass may be at fault here too but do wonder is the greed of the DAA a core factor too.

The core issue here looks to me that the DAA just haven't got enough lounges or even close to it due to years of bad management and planning and that the view in the DAA is just to use lounges to milk whatever they can from passengers and not give a toss about providing a quality service. They are happy to run them at full capacity permanently with no regard to frequent flyers.

Don't disagree some of the UK lounges can be bad and busy too but my general experience is Dublin is pretty much up there with the very worst places for lounges and I travel a lot. It is consistently bad in Dublin and getting worse IMHO. I don't think we should be aspiring to be as good as the worst UK airports !! Do think the simple lack of lounge capacity in Dublin Airport is the primary cause and that ultimately is the DAA at fault.

I meant to write the liffey lounge. Yes they are accepting dragon pass when they aren't 'busy' which for two weekends in a row they were

must be the €25 offer currently on

Though it’s hard to imagine the phoenix so busy that you can’t get a seat

Its a single ticket, not two independently booked ones. But the first flight to LHR is economy and second flight is in business.

The oneworld site does say the scenario would be fine as long as the second flight is over 5 hours. So we'll see I guess, I'm not a huge amount off that time-wise. And its not a peak time of day so fingers crossed.

it seems to be up to the mood of whoever is on the desk these days.

I hope you get it, what I’m saying is don’t go EXPECTING it and then you won’t be disappointed if you don’t.