EVERY holidaymaker knows the pain of the airport gate: battling for a single plug socket, sad soggy sandwiches and expensive pre-flight pints.
Luckily, this travel trick lets you skip that dread entirely, letting you kick back in a glamorous lounge with complimentary food and booze instead.
Skip the expensive airport bars and relax in a private lounge with complimentary drinks with this travel trickSource: Getty
Bag 30% off a Standard Priority Pass membership in the Black Friday sale
The key to bagging yourself a luxurious lounge pass for cheap is by signing up to Priority Pass.
Now’s the perfect time to bag a bargain, too, with 30 per cent off standard memberships in their early Black Friday sale.
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The membership gives you access to over 1,900 airport lounges around the world, which means no more painfully stuffy airport gates.
With so many lounges under one roof, it immediately solves the problem of signing up for one specific lounge brand, then having to hope they have one wherever you go on holiday.
85% of the world’s top 100 airports are covered by Priority Pass, so chances are you’ll be sorted.
In the lounge you can help yourself to free food, drinks (including alcohol) and relax on comfy sofas that are worlds away from those hard plastic chairs.
Depending on the airport you fly from, you could even be taking advantage of hot showers, quiet zones and private sleep pods to catch up on rest after that gruelling early morning alarm.
The VIP perks also extend beyond the buffet and lounge experience.
Priority Pass members get access to Be Relax spa treatments at participating airports, meaning you can treat yourself to a pre-flight massage or a fresh manicure to show off on your hols.
You also get a takeaway freebie to use at home: complimentary access to the WithU Fitness app.
You can enjoy free food at all of the lounges included with your Priority Pass membershipSource: Supplied
Bag 30% off a Standard Priority Pass membership in the Black Friday sale
This freebie workout app is worth £79.99 a year, and creates you a personalised exercise programme to use in the gym or even your living room.
This means that for one yearly price you’ve got all your glamorous travel and fitness plans taken care of, so you can live that luxurious lifestyle on a budget.
The Priority Pass Standard membership normally costs £69 per year, but the Black Friday sale shaves 30 per cent off this plan.
That drops your year-long membership fee to just £48, which works out at £4 per month.
When you tot up how many expensive airport meals and pints you can rack up over only a few holidays a year, then £48 becomes totally worth it.
Once you are signed up to the Standard membership, you pay a flat £24 entry fee each time you visit a lounge.
When you factor in the sky-high prices of standard airport bars and restaurants, that £24 easily pays for itself through the complimentary food and free-flowing alcoholic drinks available inside.
Alcoholic drinks are included with your airport lounge visitSource: Getty
All Priority Pass member benefits
Priority Pass members get access to the following:
Complimentary food and drinks at ALL lounges
Sleep pods and showers at select lounges
Be Relax spa treatments at select airports
Bring along a guest (£24 Guest visit fee)
Discounts on more airport dining and extra spa treatments
The option to re-book selected lounges for a supplementary fee
Free membership to the WithU Fitness app (worth £79.99 per year)
Bag 30% off a Standard Priority Pass membership in the Black Friday sale
Priority Pass plan options
Here are all the types of plan you can sign up to with Priority Pass.
Standard Plan is on a pay-as-you-go basis – all lounge visits are charged £24 at the time of usage to your payment card.
£69 £48 for first year (30% discount) / £4 per month
Standard Plus includes 10 free visits during your membership year, visits after this will be charged £24 to your payment card.
£229 for first year / £19.09 per month
The Prestige Plan is unlimited free member lounge visits. Under all three plans members can take accompanied guests into the lounges for the visit fee stated which is charged to your payment card.
VICKY Pattison left jaws on the floor as she showed off her stunning figure in a monochrome bikini this weekend.
The 38-year-old looked sensational in snaps she shared from a romantic spa break with her husband Ercan Ramadan.
Vicky Pattison looked sizzling hot as she showed off her figure in a monochrome bikiniSource: vickysvacays/InstagramVicky has been showing Ercan around her home city of NewcastleSource: vickysvacays/Instagram
Vicky and Ercan kicked back and relaxed at Serenity Spa, just outside of Newcastle.
In true Vicky style, she soaked up the rays of the autumn sun as she posed up perched on the edge of the spa hot tub.
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Bare-faced Vicky looked gorgeous in the purple patterned two-piece, which accentuated her toned physique.
The brunette beauty told fans she’s on a mission to convince Ercan to one day move back to her home city of Newcastle.
The loved-up pair have been open about their struggles to expand their familySource: vickysvacays/InstagramThe 38-year-old kicked back and relaxed at a spaSource: vickysvacays/Instagram
She wrote in the caption of her post on Instagram: “Newcastle Diaries… I’ve been down in London for about 12 years now.. and whereas I love this little life we’ve created here, the friends I’ve made, my wonderful job, Erc’s lush family…
“I miss my home town so much! I don’t know if it’s because we’re trying to grow our family..
“And the thought of not having my mam and sister close by as a first time mam is daunting or if it’s just because I’m genuinely a bit homesick.”
“We filmed escape to the country in the summer… (no spoilers I promise.. but it was fab! And it’s out at Christmas!!) anyway, since then I’ve been on a mission to make Ercan fall in love with the north east,” continued Vicky.
“So last weekend I tried to show him so much of our gorgeous region… spent a day at @serenityspa.seahamhall.
” A day eating everything in sight at @stacknewcastle and generally just showed him that there’s so much more to my wonderful little pocket of the country than @greggs_official (not that I don’t LOVE a pasty mind).
“Operation make Ercan fall in love with the toon is a go.”
Vicky, who rose to fame after appearing on Geordie Shore, revealed that she didn’t think she’d be this age “without a baby or a family.”
Speaking on the BBC’s Sort Your Life Out Unpacked podcast, Vicky confessed: “It’s just the way the cookie crumbles and how life sometimes like presents you with different things and different opportunities and stuff.
“And I’ve never really felt ready until now.
“It’s wild but like something just clicks, and the minute you feel ready it’s like you need a baby straight away.”
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