How to get airport restaurant discounts using DragonPass and Priority Pass

A valuable way to utilise unused lounge passes

Both Priority Pass and Dragonpass offer benefits beyond airport lounges. Priority Pass allows you to use any complimentary lounge entry passes that you have and instead get a discount at a restaurant. Dragonpass goes one better: you can use a pass to get a cash discount, or you can keep your pass and get a % reduction on your bill.

What are lounge pass restaurant discounts?

They’re when a lounge pass service allows you to use one (or sometimes more than one) of your complimentary lounge access passes to get a discount at an airport restaurant instead.

You may prefer to dine in a restaurant rather than go to a lounge, or you may struggle to get access (and use) your lounge passes. Swapping them for a discount on a restaurant will give you real, and somewhat useful, value.

The discounts are actually generous, and just about enough for a drink and a meal.

Priority Pass can give you a £18 discount per lounge pass
Dragonpass can you an £18 discount per pass, but, optionally a 10% – 15% discount if you don’t want to use a pass.

The Dragonpass approach is extra generous. You can use your membership to reduce your final bill if you don’t want to use a complimentary pass.

How do you use the passes to get discounts?

Both Dragonpass and Priority Pass make it easy to get the restaurant discount. There’s nothing to print out or sign up for. You just follow the process below.

Dragonpass – how to get the restaurant discount

Simply go into the Dragonpass app, then find the restaurant you want to dine at.

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Tap the “Redeem GBP 18 Off” button, and a QR code will be shown on the screen. Show the screen to the server when you’re ready to pay your bill, and they will scan it. (I have blacked out the QR code in the screenshot below, so you can’t steal my lounge pass).

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Priority Pass – how to get the restaurant discount

With Priority Pass you have to present your card to the server before you dine, along with your boarding pass. There’s nothing you need to do in the app itself, other than make sure that the restaurant you’re dining in is listed.

Which credit cards give you lounge access?

If you have a Barclays Premier account, or a Barclaycard Avios Plus card you will get a level of Dragonpass membership. If you have BOTH the Premier account and the Avios Plus card, then you’ll get four free lounge passes per year. That’s £72 of value if you use them to discount a restaurant bill.

If you have an Amex Gold (personal, not business) card, then you get four free Priority Pass passes each year. If you have the business card, you do not get any lounge access. Platinum Cardholders get unlimited lounge access. However, with Amex you cannot swap your lounge passes for every restaurant in the Priority Pass scheme. The range of restaurants is limited, with just three in the UK: Pizza Express at Gatwick South, Juniper & Co at London City and The Camden Bar at Stansted.

Capital On Tap’s Pro plan (the one that’s £299/year) gives you two free guest passes per annum with Priority Pass.

If you have the HSBC World Elite card, you can swap a lounge visit for a discount at any of the Priority Pass restaurants below. Just be mindful that Priority Pass has a policy that you shouldn’t visit a lounge and use a restaurant discount on the same trip.

Similar to the HSBC card, the Lloyds World Elite Mastercard allows you to get restaurant discounts via the Priority Pass included with that card.

Which restaurants can you use your Dragonpass or Priority Pass at?

I’ve listed every UK airport restaurant that will discount the bill if you have a Dragonpass or Priority Pass card. Remember that Amex has an extremely limited number of restaurants that are supported.

London Heathrow

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
T2	Leon	£18 / 10%
T2	Jones The Grocer	£18 / 15%
T3	The Curator	£18 / 15%
T3	Spuntino	£18 / 15%
T3	Giraffe	£18 / 15%
T3	Evergreen		£18
T4	Joe’s Coffee	£18 / 15%
T4	Wild Olive	£18 / 15%
T5	Giraffe	£18 / 15%
T5	Globe Pub & Kitchen		£18

London Gatwick

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
North	Brewdog		£18
North	Juniper & Co		£18
North	Sonoma	£18 / 15%
North	Sussex House	£18 / 15%
North	The Breakfast Club		£18
North	Tortilla		£18
South	Giraffe	£18 / 15%
South	Joe’s Coffee	£18 / 15%
South	Pizza Express		£18 (works with Amex)
South	Wondertree	£18 / 15%

London Stansted

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Camden Kitchen		£18 (works with Amex)
Main	The Perch	£18 / 10%
Main	Sunny Side Cafe	£18 / 10%
Main	Terracotta	£18 / 10%

London Luton

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
T1	Avalon Coffee		£18
T1	Big Smoke Taphouse		£18
T1	Hawker Bar	£18 / 15%
T1	Nolito		£18
T1	Sanford	£18 / 15%
T1	Smithfield	£18 / 10%

London City

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Juniper & Co		£18 (works with Amex)
Main	Soul & Grain		£18

Manchester

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
T2	Amber Ale House	£18 / 10% with Dragonpass
T2	Apiary	£18 / 15%
T2	Archies	£18 / 15%
T2	Bridgewater Exchange	£18 / 10%
T2	Evergreen		£18
T2	Giraffe	£18 / 10%
T2	KFC	£18 / 10%
T2	Pot Kettle Black	£18 / 10%
T2	VIT	£18 / 10%
T2	Wrapchic	£18 / 10%

Birmingham

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Giraffe	£18 / 15%
Main	Indian Brewery	10%
Main	Shelby & Co		£18

Bristol

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Frankie & Bennys	£18 / 15%

Aberdeen

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass
Main	Bocco	£18 / 15%
Main	The Distilling House	£18 / 15%
Main	The Granite City	£18 / 15%

Glasgow

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Bird & Signett	N/A	£18
Main	Caledonia	£18 / 15%
Main	Frankie & Benny’s	£18 / 15%
Main	Tennent’s Bar	£18 / 15%
Main	William Beardmore	£18 / 15%

Edinburgh

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass
Main	Brewdog	£18 / 15%
Main	Icons	£18
Main	Pizza Express	£18
Main	Seoul Bird	£18

Cardiff

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Y Castell		£18

Newcastle

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Aster & Thyme		£18

Belfast City Airport

Terminal	Restaurant	Dragonpass	Priority Pass
Main	Samsons	£18 / 15%