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hey everyone this is uh Tony from trophy
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travel experiences today I'm at YVR
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Airport and we're just going to do some
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Lounge uh reviews this is all the three
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international lounges that you can be at
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when you travel internationally from YVR
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so I'm going to go to the new uh Plaza
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premium lounge and then I'm going to go
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to the Sky Lounge and then finally the
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air cannon Lounge just check them out
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and see what they have selection it's
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early in the morning today so I'm going
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to see their breakfast ction so the
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first Lounge I'm going to go to is the
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plaza premium lounge and this is near
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this brand new Lounge just open I think
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in this year of January
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2025 and so it's near gate 59 or 67 and
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that's where it
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is so first impressions that this is a
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brand new Lounge that's just open in
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January of 2025 the first impression is
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it looks great I guess probably because
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there's no one here in the morning but
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they also have I'll show you right now
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when I pan through they also have a u
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first class Lounge I guess for you have
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to pay a little bit more for a first
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class Lounge but this is the regular
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lounge and I'll take you through it's
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really nice uh well welld designed so
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when you come in you get the F this
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reception area there's a first class
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Lounge that um they can go into I guess
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you have to pay an extra bit and this is
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the new Lounge so it goes through
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and it actually looks very nice I think
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it's in the morning so right now it's
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really quiet so this is excellent I
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guess uh but it looks brand new so it's
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excellent and look at this this is so
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nice I can just walk around and um kind
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of look at this let's look at the food
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selection this is again remember this is
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just breakfast so can't expect
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too much but you got your eggs spinach
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and cheese
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frada then you got PE
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potatoes pork
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sausages they got a little gu an omet
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station nice it's around to this side
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it's a quite a nice loue
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area General impressions of this Lounge
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I really like it but it could be because
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it's early in the morning and there's no
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one here you look at the pods in the
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back there I think those are really nice
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because they've got a little hook and
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then they've got um your own desk and
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then also um some plugs for you so it's
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actually quite nice I can see how this
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Lounge could be really crowded in the
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crowded time because it's actually not
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that big uh right now it's quiet but you
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know when it gets full up I can see it
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being really crowded and a totally
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different experience but I liked it so
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the next Lounge I'm going to is going to
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be the sky team Lounge I see there's a
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little bit more lineup and I'll just
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mention I get access to both put these
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Lounge through the ax Platinum cart so
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let's check it out so this Lounge
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Services um quite a few Ain It's Kind
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much busier but actually it's later in
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the day so as you can see um it's got a
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nice bar area here so that's got uh nice
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lers and as you came through here um it
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is busier but again it could be just
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because it's later in the day so a bit
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more narrow say it's is slightly bigger
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than the uh a premium
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lount it's just to film the uh food area
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so actually they went to the lunch
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already so kind of
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neat with cookies
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here this is a little extra they
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actually have a noodle bar and that
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happens at 11:
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a.m. so overall impressions of this
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Lounge pretty busy but again it's a
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little bit later in the day so maybe
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that's why but it does service quite a
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few uh Airlines I didn't take the food
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area because it's just too busy with
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people and so what it's like there's got
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a nice selection they've got spaghetti
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they've got like meatballs they got some
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sandwiches I said but it's uh much
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busier so I probably would stick with
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the um pyan Plaza or the priority Plaza
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Lounge um and then next stop we're going
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to go to the air can Lounge see how that
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works so I guess this is the advantage
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of being Air Canada you get the lounge
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so it's right after the gates in IND
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special this is the lounge here so you
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just walk in through here and You' got
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the elevator that goes up to the
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lounge so I'm here at the Air Canada
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Lounge so this is a Signature Lounge
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I'll show you the it's quite a big
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Lounge actually um it is busy but I
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think it's actually still better than
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the Sky Lounge um so it's nice and
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comfortable got a nice seat here they do
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have quite a bit of um place here and
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then they also have a signature Suite
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upstairs if you're full business class
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then you get to have that in this
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situation I was upgraded to business
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class so then I don't get access to that
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Suite so as you come through the
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entrance you will actually get the
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there's a signature Suite so that's for
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people that have business class tickets
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and then when you come in here it's
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actually quite a nice open
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space it's quite a nice lounge and then
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this is the food area it's nice small
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but um still good it's got enough food
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for everyone to eat so quite nicely laid
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out I see there's some nice um kind of
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things here that's little nice and then
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if you roll around here that is the main
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part of the lounge quite a bit big
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Lounge so I quite like it actually nice
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bar area also a closer look I'm really
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impressed with their food selections
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they do have a noodle station that you
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can kind of go to here and then this is
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their lunch serice so maybe that's why
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I'm a little bit more impressed so it's
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got the um
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meatballs then we've got some
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vegetables and also some
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broccoli you turn over this side this is
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also nice they've got a little self-
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served salsa and uh chips station with a
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little bit dessert and then going over
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to this side they got full-on soft
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drinks beer wine so lots of things by
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the tap they've got all these things by
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the top and then their um lunch
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selection has got a lot of
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salad
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samosas so this is the bar area look at
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this little bit it's got a great
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selection self sered you can do what you
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like final thoughts I think the um Sky
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Lounge is probably the place you don't
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want to go to it's got a lot of uh
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airlines that it supports so it's a bit
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more crowded um I think the plaza
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premium Lounge is very nice it's a new
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Lounge it's quite spacious it's a little
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bit on this small side I guess my pick
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if you did have a choice is Air Canada
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Lounge so a lot of people have access to
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that um through I guess either you've
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got a business class ticket or you've
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got a status or so I think this is the
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best Lounge in fact of all the lounges
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um it's got the best food selection it's
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got the most uh comfortable seating and
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also if you're flying business class or
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a regular ticket then you can use their
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Signature suites I've got another video
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on that uh which I'll put at the end of
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this video so hope you've enjoyed this
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video until next time safe travels