The 10 worst airport lounges in India: 2026

How I built this list: I took every open lounge in India on Lounge Frog with ratings on at least eight metrics, sorted by overall score, and read each record before including it. Closed lounges are out, and so are spas, nap suites and restaurants. That removed two of the lowest scores: the old American Express lounge in Delhi's Terminal 3, which closed at the end of 2025, and Mumbai's Good Times Bar in Terminal 1B, which scores 2.6 but is a bar, not a lounge. Several scores are close together, especially in the middle of the list, so don't read too much into a tenth of a point.

The surprise is where the failures are. Four of the ten are in Bengaluru, and three of the ten are landside rooms in arrivals areas. India's big departure lounges are mostly fine. Its kerbside and arrival lounges are not.

The landside lounges

1. T1 Lounge (Kerbside), Bengaluru Terminal 1 — 1.3. The lowest score in India by a distance, and no single metric rescues it: it gets a 1 for cleanliness, coffee, crowding, drinks, exclusivity, power, seating, service, Wi-Fi and workspace, and nothing higher than a 2 anywhere. It sits landside outside Terminal 1 Arrivals near Arrivals Gate 13, takes Priority Pass, wants a same-day boarding pass and caps stays at two hours. If you are flying out of Terminal 1, clear security and use the 080 Domestic Lounge (T1, Level 1) opposite Gate 34 instead. It rates 4.1, also takes Priority Pass, scores 5 for food, power and workspace, and allows three hours. There is no better landside option at Terminal 1 on the site.

2. 080 Arrival Lounge, Bengaluru Terminal 2 — 1.6. Same story one terminal over. It is landside on Level 0 of the Terminal 2 arrivals hall, and rates 1 for food, drinks, seating, restrooms, power, workspace, views and exclusivity. The coffee, Wi-Fi and crowding scores of 3 are the only middling marks. Departing passengers should go airside to the 080 Lounge (Domestic T2) on Level 4, which rates 4.4 with Priority Pass, or the 080 International Lounge at 4.5 if you're flying abroad. Landside, there is nothing better rated in Terminal 2.

3. Aviserv Lounge (East), Mumbai Terminal 2 — 2.8. Mumbai's arrivals lounge on the east side of Level 2, near Arrival Gate C. It is less bad than the two Bengaluru rooms: restrooms score 4 and power, seating, service and Wi-Fi score 3. But coffee, drinks and exclusivity are all 2s. Its twin, Aviserv Lounge (West) near Arrival Gate A on the same level, rates 3.3 on fewer ratings (seven metrics, so it isn't eligible for this list either way) with 4s for food, seating, power and service. Both take Priority Pass. If you're departing rather than arriving, the Adani Lounge (Domestic T2) rates 4.8 and takes Priority Pass, LoungeKey and DragonPass.

If you're arriving into India and wondering whether these rooms are worth it at all, our piece on using lounges on arrival and the one on landside versus airside lounges go into the tradeoffs.

Bengaluru's two weak airside rooms

4. 080 VIP Domestic Lounge, Bengaluru Terminal 2 — 2.9. Also called the Courtyard Club, it sits inside the 080 complex on Level 4 of the domestic pier and is sold through Plaza Premium as a paid booking. It does well for quiet, seating, drinks and workspace (all 4s), but coffee, food, crowding, power and Wi-Fi are 2s. The awkward thing is that the main 080 Lounge (Domestic T2), the room around it, rates 4.4 with Priority Pass and 5s for coffee, Wi-Fi, power and seating. Paying extra for the VIP room gets you a lower score.

10. Air India Maharaja Lounge, Bengaluru Terminal 2 — 3.7. I'm jumping ahead to group it with its neighbour. Among Indian lounges with enough ratings to qualify, this is the weakest-rated airline lounge, and it isn't a disaster: it scores 5 for food, drinks, quiet and crowding and has two showers. What pulls it down is a row of 3s for cleanliness, restrooms, service, Wi-Fi, power and workspace. It's on the same Level 4 as the 080 Lounge, which rates 4.4. If you have Priority Pass as well as Air India or Star Alliance Gold access, try both and decide for yourself; on our numbers, the 080 room wins.

The only-lounge-in-town entries

5. Earth Lounge (Domestic), Kochi Terminal 1 — 3.2. This is a fairness case. It has a 1 for drinks (there is no bar) and a 2 for exclusivity, but 4s for food, seating and service and a 5 for views. It's airside near Gate 1A and takes Priority Pass. It is also the only domestic lounge at Kochi on the site; the international Earth Lounge is in Terminal 3 and only for international departures. If you're flying domestic from Kochi, use this one.

6. Elysian Lounge, Ground Floor, Pune — 3.2. Tied with Kochi; I've put Kochi first because its 1 for drinks is the lowest single mark between them. Pune's ground-floor Elysian room near Gate 5A rates 2 for drinks and exclusivity and 4 for cleanliness, seating, power and Wi-Fi, takes Priority Pass and caps stays at two hours. Alcohol costs extra. Pune has a second domestic Elysian lounge on the first floor opposite Gate 2, but it has only two ratings so far, and neither is good. For now there is no better-rated choice for domestic departures at Pune.

Chennai and Delhi

7. Travel Club (Terminal 2), Chennai — 3.5. Chennai's international lounge, on the third floor after immigration. It gets 5s for restrooms, views and Wi-Fi, but 3s nearly everywhere else and a 2 for exclusivity. There is no better-rated international lounge at Chennai on the site, so Priority Pass holders on international flights should still use it. Domestic passengers have a slightly better room in Terminal 1 (below).

8. Encalm Privé (Domestic T1), Delhi Terminal 1 — 3.6. The most uneven record on the list. It scores 5 for service, quiet and crowding, and 1 for both restrooms and exclusivity. It's a walk-in lounge on Mezzanine Level 5, sold for up to two hours, and has no network access listed. Delhi Terminal 1 has two alternatives, but neither has enough ratings to recommend with confidence: the Priority Pass Encalm Lounge (Domestic T1) has three ratings so far, and the new Centurion Lounge in Terminal 1D, for eligible Amex cardmembers, has one. The well-rated Encalm rooms are in Terminal 3: Encalm Privé (International T3) rates 4.9 and the domestic Encalm Lounge in T3 4.7. That only helps if you're flying from T3.

9. Travel Club (Terminal 4), Chennai — 3.6. Tied with Delhi on score. I've put Delhi first because of its two 1s, while this room's lowest mark is a 2 for exclusivity. Opposite Gate 17 in the domestic hold area, it rates 4 for food, seating, power, service, crowding and views, and stays are capped at two hours. The better domestic lounge is Travel Club (Terminal 1, Gate 1) at 3.8, which allows three hours and scores 5 for coffee, power, workspace and views. But it is in Terminal 1, so it only works if your flight leaves from there.

What the list says

If you take one thing from this: in Bengaluru and Mumbai, the lounge you can walk into from the kerb is the worst one. The airside rooms at those airports are among the better-rated in India, and they take the same Priority Pass card. Before you rely on that card at a domestic lounge, check that your bank still includes domestic access; our Axis Bank piece covers one recent change.

For the other end of the table, see the 10 best airport lounges in India. The wider regional lists are Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Scores follow our methodology.