Capital One Lounge Access Changes

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• Does the business version still give access to PP restaurants?

• I just applied for the card yesterday. Luckily for me the lounge access thing is a perk I would rarely used anyway.

• Just to provide a recent DP: an AU of my Venture X brought 3 guests into a PP lounge 2 weeks ago without charge. I actually checked their website after they got in and noticed the limit was already there, so it looks like it's still not yet enforced.

  • Make sure to check your credit card to see if they charged you for the 3rd guest. You can bring in as many as you want, but only the first 2 are free. Guests above the free limit are charged at something like $35/person -- which I'm sure is more than what the lounge gets from Priority Pass for free guests.

• I'm so tempted to PC this card to no AF version. Nerf after nerf after nerf.

  The only thing it has going for it is that AUs can get individual PPs at no extra cost.

  • Soon AU would not be free

  • Every card is nerfing their lounge access, so what are you going to do?

    • Stick with one card only - amex schwab plat. But so far I'm keeping Venture X too due to free AU cards.

  • This card is basically no af and au getting pp I'd say that's pretty big

    • Only if you think $300 travel credit to be used in their portal is the same as actual $300.

      It was basically no af back when $300 was a statement credit. But of course they nerfed it.

  • Bro name a premium card ($400 AF or more) that hasn't nerfed their lounge access in the past two years.

    • Bank of America Premium Rewards Elite

  • What on earth are you talking about nerf. Most still get PP access and for the ones that don’t, I promise you they already had a sign out front saying “no xyz access due to capacity constraints” or some bs meaning you couldn’t get in with VX regardless. If you home base in DC especially this card is a no brainer for lounges.

    • What exactly are you saying? That pulling Plaza Premium lounge access is not a nerf? Or it's not a nerf because it doesn't impact you personally?

      Not all Plaza Premium lounges are part of Priority Pass and they can easily pull out of Priority Pass in future.

  • Once they start charging AU I’m downgradin

• @2 this table needs to be updated maybe?
  it doesn't include bank of america premium elite card
  and hilton aspire no longer offers priority pass
  https://www.doctorofcredit.com/credit-cards-offer-priority-pass-memberships-compared-differences

  • Yes it's in dire need of an update.

• Plaza Premium lounges are terribe anyways.

• Charge the AUs

• Wayback Machine from June 26, 2022 shows the PP guest limit was 2 on the VX landing page: https://web.archive.org/web/20220626093202/https://www.capitalone.com/credit-cards/venture-x/

  • I looked into this in the fall when I had a family member that wanted to take four people. One place on the website said 2, another didn’t reference any limit. They were able to take all four with no issues at the time.

  • How many times are you gonna spam this?

    • STFU

    • Why does it bother you?

• Priority Pass is not limited to 2 guests for Venture X. It is unlimited guests, subject to space restraints at each individual lounge. Trust me (Capital One direct source). No one from Capital One is allowed to publicly comment on this to avoid us looking like we contradict each other.

• There was never a limit on Guest in the past to Priority Pass through venture. There was only a two guest limit for access to the Capital One lounge and Plaza lounges with the venture card. I definitely scanned in six people multiple times to Priority Pass lounges. No extra charges.

  • There was a limit of 2 guests at PP lounges since at least June 26, 2022 according to the wayback machine.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20220626093202/https://www.capitalone.com/credit-cards/venture-x/

    The issue was that the verbiage was confusing. If you check a few links from wayback machine from May 2022 and June 2022. You can see the verbiage changed multiple times.

    So it looks like it was never actually enforced consistently.

    • Actually, no. The problem here is that Capital One lumped its partner lounges together, despite having different guest policies at Plaza Premium (2 guests) and Priority Pass (unlimited guests).
      Despite everyone rushing to say it on the internet this week, there has been no change to the unlimited guests at Priority Pass on Venture X --- subject to any limits imposed at an individual lounge.

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