Porto airport lounges: the one lounge, who gets in and what it costs

If it is free with your ticket or your card, always. If you are paying, it depends on the time you have. The lounge lets you in from 3 hours 30 minutes before your boarding time and asks you to leave after three hours, so it suits a long wait more than a quick one. The food is a counter of sandwiches, snacks, fruit and yoghurt rather than hot dishes, and you may have up to three alcoholic drinks free per entry, which the rules ask you to enjoy in moderation.

For a short wait, the terminal does the job: Porto is a one-terminal airport, and a glass at the wine bar or a coffee at one of the cafés costs less than a lounge visit. Where the lounge earns its fee is the dawn departure, when it opens at 04:00 with coffee, seats and a runway view, and the long afternoon wait, when a sofa and Wi-Fi beat a gate seat.

Yes. Priority Pass lists the ANA Lounge as its Porto lounge, airside after security on level 3 near gates 31 and 32, open 04:00 to 21:00, with children under 1 admitted free. The airport also accepts DragonPass and Diners Club International cards, and for those members entry is either free or discounted depending on the membership.

On TAP, the lounge is open to business class passengers, TAP Miles&Go Gold and Navigator members, Star Alliance Gold members and Silver members flying an intercontinental TAP flight. Holders of the TAP Platinum Visa card get in on TAP and TAP Express flights from Porto, provided their TAP customer number is on the booking. Passengers of the other partner airlines, British Airways, Lufthansa, United and Air France among them, get in according to their airline's own rules on class and status, so check with the airline before you assume entry.

They can, but check the price. The lounge's rules of use, updated in April 2026, charge for children over 3. Azores Airlines, which sells access with its tickets, lets children under 3 in free, and Priority Pass states that children under 1 are free. Parents of children who cause significant disturbance to other guests may be asked to leave, and the airport lists no family room or play area in the lounge.

For a family with young children, the better bet airside is often the airport's own playground for children aged 2 to 7 on floor 2, on both the Schengen and non-Schengen sides, with baby-changing in every toilet block. The lounge is best kept for older children who will sit happily with a book or a screen and headphones, which the rules require for any device with sound.

No. The ANA Lounge is a departures lounge, after security, and there is no arrivals lounge or shower lounge at Porto. After a night flight, the Park Hotel Porto Aeroporto is a 3-minute walk from the terminal with a 24-hour reception, and our city hotels are typically 20 to 30 minutes away by road.

The lounge closes at 21:00 and may close on 24 and 25 December. Evening departures after that wait in the terminal; fast track runs until 23:00, so you can still save time at security. The airport also has a CIP Lounge on the third floor before security, but it is a business meeting room with projector and Wi-Fi hired for meetings, not a waiting lounge for passengers.

Yes. The airport says the lounge is being improved and, while the work goes on, its own toilets are closed. Guests use the signed toilets on floor 0, next to the stairs that lead up to the new lounge area and its reception. Allow a couple of extra minutes for that, and check the airport's page before you fly, as it is updated as the works progress.