Amex's Newest Centurion Lounge Opening Tomorrow! (Sneak peek)

Hey Credit Warriors, welcome to the show. Now, the Amex Centurion Lounge is a very popular perk of the Amex Platinum and Amex Centurion cards. And American Express just announced the opening of what they call their 29th Centurion Lounge tomorrow at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airfield, or DCA. In this video, we are going to go through all of the details and show you some photos. So let's get going. So the lounge is in Terminal 2, past the South Security Checkpoint. So it's going to be around here, close to the Delta Sky Club. The lounge is 12,000 square feet, which is a pretty good size. It'll be open from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, except for Saturdays when it closes a little bit earlier at 7 p.m. Here is a statement from the head of Amex Travel about the lounge. The Centurion Lounge is one of our card members' favorite travel benefits, and the new location at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport offers card members the premium amenities they love in an airport they frequently travel through. With a menu created by three award-winning chefs, dedicated workstations, access to complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi, quiet nooks for relaxation, and more, there is something for every type of traveler to enjoy. So that was a statement in their press release, but now let's actually show you some photos of the lounge. So this is what Amex put out in the press release. Here we have the seating area with their famous dog, and I think it's an impressionist style. Then we have the bar and buffet area. Then we have a bit of a better shot of the bar, with what looks like an interesting chandelier on the ceiling. Then we have another seating area with armchairs, a lot of interesting art, and also this kind of like wooden trim on the wall that looks very traditional. It's kind of interesting as well. Amex says what is unique about this lounge is that travelers can actually enjoy food from three award-winning chefs from Miami, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. It also features floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the airfield, and there are some other blogs already online with more photos from, I think they might have had a preview tour, for example, The Points Guy has some good photos. If you want to see more of the lounge, maybe I'll put a link to his article down below or something. But how do you get in? Well, you will need the Platinum or Centurion card for access. Centurion card holders get free guests. Platinum card holders do not. They have to pay $50 per guest up to $2 unless you've spent over $75,000 a year on the card. Delta Reserve card holders, that is the top-level Amex Delta card, also get access to the Centurion lounge when they are flying Delta, and they have the same restrictions as Platinum card holders when it comes to guests. I'll put links to all of the cards that have access, well except the Centurion card because it's invite only, but the Platinum and the Reserve card. I'll put links to them below because you can use those to access the Centurion lounges. So if you are interested in picking up one of those cards or just learning more about it, do click the link down below in the description. In my opinion, it looks like a really good lounge and it is the first credit card branded lounge to open at DCA Airport. The other airport in the Washington DC area, IAD, has a Capital One lounge and a Chase Sapphire lounge already. Now, I have been to DCA once and my flight was delayed for an hour, and at that time I remember not being able to get into a lounge. Okay, there was no lounge that I actually had access to, so this would have been really handy. After this one opens, next year there will be two more opening. One is at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, and the other is at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, which serves the New York City area, and that just happens to be my local airport, so I'm really looking forward to that one. All right guys, that is the video for today. Let me know what you think of the new lounge, and we'll see you in the next one. Bye-bye.