Garuda Indonesia Business Class Lounge ( Domestic - Jakarta, Indonesia )

Airport code : CGK
Airline : Garuda Indonesia
Terminal : 3 Ultimate

At the time of this short lounge review, I was flying with a morning flight. I arrived at the airport at around 5 am. And the lounge was packed. It was difficult to find a seat for 4. The lounge is noisy. frequent flyers knew how difficult it is to find a seat at Ga’s domestic lounge during peak hours 🤪

For me, the space of the lounge is quite small. For the fact that Garuda Indonesia operates flights to all cities / provinces around Indonesia, and the increase of business class passengers. Plus, it is the homebase, government owned, Should give them more power, authority and right for more space eh?

Who can enter this lounge? Business class passengers & ( If I’m not mistaken ) BNI Emerald cardholders. Do note you cannot use Garuda Citibank CC to enter this lounge.( perks of having this CC is extra baggage allowance of 20kg and other perks check their website for more info )

I think that it should be more private as it is not a shared or joint lounge like owned by an alliance and used by all its member’s passengers. But then again, I think the space is quite small.

For the design of the lounge itself, just decent, nothing spectacular but not bad either :) we all know what to expect from airport lounges, except First class lounge teehee

There’s leather sofa too. And one thing I observe from Garuda is that they sell onboard duty free products on the ground at their lounge as well. So their staff go around the lounge and pushing a cart with many duty free products. Perhaps to increase duty free revenue? Anyways i think its a nice act as long as theyre not pushy and not block the way, ofcourse.

Regarding the lounge food, for me its decent. Not much variety, but they do have live egg station, Indonesian option, and salad station.

I do apologize I didnt take any photos of the food options. I will update this article again next time I fly with GA.