Lounge pass & travel insurance

[Madcats]

Do any banks/credit cards (or something else) still do a lounge pass/travel insurance add on?

I've not ventured further than Jersey in the past 5 years. I used to buy a Travel pack from Barclays that gave us insurance/breakdown and enough international lounge passes to get us through a short-haul and long-haul holiday. This seems to be paused.

Thanks in advance

Have a look at Amex, there were a few different cards with lounge access when I was looking yesterday.

Revolution premium has reduced price lounge access, I have RBS platinum with travel insurance.

Coop has this

Yes. RBS, NatWest and AMEX do priority pass. However you might be better off paying for lounge access if it’s a one off as if they’re fully booked you can’t get in anyway.

Thanks everybody. I have some googling to do!

Nationwide has one of their current accounts with a worldwide travel insurance, £13/months but it also has breakdown cover, mobile phone insurance and so far we saved money with it compared to paying for all separately.

It tends to be access to the awful lounges that anyone can pay £20 or so to use. I wouldn’t bother.

Join the BA executive club and collect airmiles so that you can access the BA lounges which are much nicer. I can only speak of the ones at Heathrow and Gatwick, but compared to the rubbish public lounges there’s (IMO): more civilised clientele, free champagne, lots of space and rarely get overcrowded.

You get access by getting to Silver tier on the programme (not that easy to do if you don’t travel with work) or by redeeming airmiles on Business class seats.

I'm not too bothered about UK lounges.

I wanted to get into the Air Mauritius one in Mauritius (as we usually spend our last day on the beach and then shower and eat there before our overnight flight home).

It looks as if I can pre-purchase online for us so maybe I'll just do that.

DH has a Nationwide acct so I'll get him to cost up travel insurance via them.

Update: I managed to do a webchat with Barclays over the weekend to see if it would ever be reintroduced (it seemed odd that they would still advertise it but say "not currently available") and it turned out that their website was having an IT glitch. Insurance and Dragonpass (and RAC) now available for £18/month (min term 6 months).