The 8 worst airport lounges in Spain and Portugal: 2026

This is a list of eight, not ten, and the reason is worth saying up front. I started from every lounge we rate in Spain and Portugal, kept only open lounges whose score rests on at least eight rated metrics, and left out nap suites, spas and restaurants (there were none to remove here). That leaves 33 lounges. The bottom of that pile is crowded with small Aena and ANA rooms at holiday airports, and most of them don't have a photo on the site yet, which a list page needs. After the eighth photographed lounge, the next ones up are in Madrid and rate 4.2 and above. Calling those "worst" would be silly, so I stopped at eight. The ones I had to leave out are named at the end.

Scores are close. Six of these eight sit between 2.9 and 3.1, so the order inside that band is decided by the weakest individual scores, not by any big gap. Treat ranks 2 to 8 as "ordinary, with specific weak spots" rather than a strict league table.

Lisbon: three of the eight#

1. ANA Lounge, Lisbon, 1.8. The clear floor of the region. It's the airport operator's own lounge, about 900 m² on Floor 6 of Terminal 1 near Gate 22, airside but before passport control, so Schengen and non-Schengen passengers all end up here. It's also where Priority Pass and DragonPass send you, and that shows in the ratings: 1 for crowding, quiet, restrooms, showers and workspace, 2 for food, drinks, coffee and seating. Wi-Fi at 4 is the one bright spot. Stays are capped at three hours and showers cost extra.

Go instead to TAP Premium Lounge Tejo (3.1), also in Terminal 1, if you're flying TAP or Star Alliance business or hold Star Alliance Gold. TAP also sells entry, from EUR 28 according to its lounge record. If all you have is Priority Pass, I don't have a better answer at Lisbon: neither TAP lounge takes it.

5. TAP Premium Lounge Atlântico, 3.0. TAP's non-Schengen lounge opened in 2024 and is a perfectly calm room: 4 for quiet, crowding and seating. It sits this low because of a 1 for views and a 2 for restrooms. It's the only lounge after passport control, so the alternative is the 1.8 ANA Lounge before the border. Stay put.

8. TAP Premium Lounge Tejo, 3.1. TAP's flagship on the Schengen side has a staffed bar, a 4 for drinks and service, and runway views that score 5. Quiet, restrooms and showers all score 2. It's on this list and it's also the best Schengen lounge in Lisbon, which says more about Lisbon than about Tejo.

Porto: renovation pain#

2. ANA Lounge, Porto, 2.9. Floor 3, next to gates 31-32, with runway views that score 4. It loses points for crowding, exclusivity and restrooms (all 2), and the restroom score has a plain cause: the lounge is being renovated in 2026, stays open during the work, and its own toilets are closed, so guests use the public ones on Floor 0. I'd expect this score to move once the work is done. It's the only lounge at Porto on our site, so there's no alternative; with Priority Pass or DragonPass it's still a seat and a glass of port before your flight.

Spain: Aena's ordinary middle#

Almost every lounge in Spain is an Aena Sala VIP, and they are remarkably alike: self-serve drinks, a buffet, a three-hour cap and a long list of access programs. None of the Spanish entries is bad in any dramatic way. They're 3s with a couple of 2s.

3. Sala VIP Mediterráneo, Palma, 2.9. Module C, Level 0, open 05:00 to midnight. Threes across the board apart from 2 for crowding and exclusivity. If you're flying outside Schengen, Sala VIP Llevant in Module A rates 3.3 and takes the same cards, but its record says it closes from November to late March. Sala VIP Mestral in Module B rates 3.1 and only takes DragonPass.

4. Sala VIP Pau Casals, Barcelona T1, 3.0. Barcelona's main Schengen lounge, on a mezzanine above gates A to C. A split record: seating, restrooms, cleanliness and workspace score 4, while food, power, crowding and exclusivity score 2. Nothing in Terminal 1 rates higher on enough metrics to compare. Sala VIP Canudas rates 3.3, but it's in Terminal 2 and on only six metrics, so it's only an answer if you're already flying from T2.

6. Sala VIP Joan Miró, Barcelona T1, 3.0. The non-Schengen counterpart at the D and E gates. Seating, workspace and showers score 4; drinks, exclusivity and views score 2. Priority Pass lists shorter hours (06:00 to 21:00) than Aena does, so check before a late departure. It's the only rated lounge after passport control in T1.

7. Sala VIP Costa del Sol, Málaga, 3.0. In T3 behind duty free near the D gates. Cleaner (4) and with better Wi-Fi (4) than most Aena rooms, with 2s for crowding and exclusivity, and Priority Pass warns that entry may be limited at peak times. It's the only lounge we list at Málaga, so it's this or the terminal.

Also low, but not on the list#

These rooms rate just as low but have no photo on the site yet: both Faro ANA lounges, Schengen and non-Schengen (2.5 each); Sala VIP Cap des Falcó at Ibiza, Sala VIP Guacimeta at Lanzarote and Sala VIP Valldemossa at Palma (2.9 each); and the Aena rooms at Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife Norte (3.0). Most are the only lounge at their airport, and a small island lounge scoring 3 is mostly a lounge being small, not broken.

For the wider picture, see the Europe list in this series and, for the other end of the scale, the best airport lounges in Europe. How the scores are built is explained in our methodology.