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Lufthansa Business Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA) – How Does This Compare to Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge?

Byinvisibletiger

After visiting the Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge, we decided to head over and do more lounge hoping to the Lufthansa Business Lounge and see how this lounge compares.

Lufthansa Business Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA) – Entrance

The entrance to this lounge wasn’t clearly evident as it was in the middle of a circular area with gates all surrounding it. As you walk around though, you will see the sign and a winding staircase that leads up as well as the elevator. I think it was due to them having these temporary wall panels blocking the view that we didn’t see it at first.

Lufthansa Business Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA) – Location

Address:

  • Lufthansa Business Lounge
  • Flughafen FFM 1, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Lufthansa Business Lounge Frankfurt Airport (FRA) – Lounge

Once you pass the check-in below and get upstairs you are warmly greeted by the staff up top to enjoy your stay. The lounge itself is fairly modern, bright with lots of windows for about 300 degrees and very large. There are many different types of seating here just like the Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge which you can read here.

This lounge even has a kids play area and glass stalls for you to make private phone calls without disturbing other people. In addition, they have showers but they looked rather old looking and could use an update like the ones in the Maple Leaf Lounge.

Welcome to Lufthansa Business Lounge.
Regular eating tables and chairs in the middle.
The outer edge is floor to ceiling glass allowing lots of light while the center is where the food and drinks are located.
On the backside is the business area with bar stools and charging ports.
Not too much privacy here but then again, it wasn’t too busy at this time.
You get your North American power outlets and a couple of European outlets.
It was pretty quiet at this time, about 4pm, so you can have any seat you want.
The large lounge chairs were nice.
You can see that the lounge was quite large.
Yes, those black spots on the consoles are supposed to be wireless chargers but none of them worked.
It was a very nice atmosphere here, relaxing and quiet.
TV’s with the news channel was on.
You can even grab a newspaper from the rack.
Don’t bother with the wireless charger as it didn’t work, I tested several around the lounge.
These stations had a bit more privacy for you to work.
These telephone booths were provided so you can keep prying ears away.
If you wanted to, you could work here as well in these telephone booths.
Lockers were also available for your convenience.
You can stash your kids away here.

Lufthansa Business Lounge – Food

The food choices were better here than the Maple Leaf Lounge, they just had more of everything from hot foods, soups, bread, drinks and snacks.

Good hearty hot foods.
Some amuse bouche to start.
Who can resist a pretzel?
More breads and pretzels.
The salad bar.
A couple of hot soups.
The Chef’s Delight of the day.
A couple of cakes for dessert.
If you’re not full yet, you can still have these snacks.
Lot’s of booze to choose from.
The fully automatic coffee machine with Lavazza coffee beans.
A decent selection of teas.
Cold bottled beer.

Lufthansa Business Lounge – Washrooms and Showers

This was one area that was less impressive than the Maple Leaf Lounge. The washrooms and showers could certainly benefit from a renovation as they looked about 20 years old. They were still kept clean though but this area is dated.

The main washroom sinks, quite an old style.
The shower was not too impressive looking and only had the one shower head, no hand wand.
Just the overall look of this shower facility is a blast from the past. However, on the plus side, it’ll do the job.
Counter space was also sparse and the hair dryer looks like something from a motel in the 90’s.

Conclusion

We definitely liked the Lufthansa Business Lounge more than the Maple Leaf Lounge. The setting and seating areas were just more comfortable and the temperature and air quality was much better here. Food and drink choices were also greater and they seemed to have much more staff taking care of everything.

So if we had a choice and needed to take a shower on a layover in Frankfurt, we would go to the Maple Leaf Lounge and shower there, once all washed up, we would head to the Lufthansa Business Lounge to enjoy the food, drink and atmosphere. So neither is perfect but they are both good lounges in many aspects.

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