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About Lounge Frog

A free airport lounge guide. Check access rules, compare editorial ratings and read traveler reviews before you fly.

472 airports · 1,633 open lounges · 226 airlines · 48 lounge programs · 57 credit cards · 64 airline status programs

The short version

What this is

Lounge Frog is a free tool for travelers, built to make it easy to find airport lounges, see what access options get you in, and compare what a layover is actually like before you get there. There's no cost to use it and no account required to browse.

Why we built it

Lounge access is scattered across airline programs, credit card perks, and paid memberships, and it's rarely clear which one actually gets you into a given lounge.

Lounge Frog pulls that information into one place so you can plan a layover instead of guessing at it.

Everything behind the door

What it covers

Sign in and save the cards and statuses you hold, and the lounges they get you into are highlighted as you browse. Set up your wallet

Patrick Karsh

Founder

Who's behind it

Meet the founder

  • FAA commercial pilot since 2011
  • UC Berkeley
  • 14 years building products
  • New York

Patrick Karsh is the founder of Lounge Frog, a free directory that helps travelers understand airport lounge access. Based in New York, he builds software at Hi Energy AI and has fourteen years of experience turning business problems into working products. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned an FAA commercial pilot certificate for single-engine land aircraft in 2011. At Lounge Frog, his focus is making lounge information easier to find, compare, and use.

Patrick Karsh on LinkedIn

No pay to play

How the ratings work

  1. 01

    Scored on fixed metrics

    Lounges, airports, terminals and airlines are scored 1–5 on a fixed set of metrics by the Lounge Frog team.

  2. 02

    Averaged, never weighted

    The overall rating is the average of the metrics that have been scored.

  3. 03

    Readers kept separate

    Reader reviews are shown separately and never change those scores.

Access lists are a guide, not a guarantee. How we rate lounges explains every metric, the exclusivity score, closures and corrections, and our editorial standards cover independence, how we make money, and how to quote and cite our pages, including from an AI assistant.

One account, four sites

Our sister sites

Cruises Frog does for cruises what Lounge Frog does for airports: every cruise line and the ships they sail, rated the same way, with each ship's home port and the airport you fly into. Both sites share one account and one wallet, and every Cruises Frog ship page links back to the lounges at its home port's airport here. Airport pages here list the ships that sail from nearby, too.

Follow along

We post lounge reviews, new features, and travel notes on social media.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or feedback? To fix something on a particular page, the “Report an error” button on that page sends it straight to our corrections queue.

founder@loungefrog.com

Who publishes Lounge Frog

Lounge Frog is owned and operated by Travel Frog AI LLC, a New York limited liability company founded by Patrick Karsh. It is independent: no airline, cruise line, bank, studio, party or other company we cover owns it or reviews our pages before they are published.

How we are funded. We earn money through advertising and affiliate partnerships. Some links are affiliate links: if you click one and make a qualifying purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Advertisers and partners do not determine our editorial opinions or ratings.

Contact. Questions, corrections and press requests go to founder@loungefrog.com. See also our privacy policy and terms of service.

Our publications

Lounge Frog is one of seven sites owned and operated by Travel Frog AI LLC. Each has its own subject and its own pages.

  • Cruises Frog

    Plan the sailing that fits your travel style.

  • Points Frog

    Make your points and memberships go further.

  • Seats Frog

    Pick the best seat on your next flight.

  • 567politics

    Independent news. Every side examined. Sources and data linked.

  • 567 Business

    Independent business news. Every number checked. Sources and data linked.

  • 567 Movies

    Independent film and TV news. Every claim checked. Sources and data linked.

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