 Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Lounge Video and I'll talk about the Lounge Key increasing its entrance fee starting October 1st, 2019. Just a recent notification from MasterCard Lounge Experiences provided by Lounge Key that they'll increase the fee to enter Lounge each time from 27 US Dollars to 32 US Dollars. This is in addition to the free Lounge Entrances or Accesses you already have provided by your credit card. Not all credit cards provide free Lounge Accesses. Some of them do, some of them just gives you the Lounge Key membership. But each time you enter a Lounge, you have to pay 32 US Dollars so access fee starting October 1st. So for example, the BMO World Elite Air Mouse MasterCard gives you two free Lounge Accesses and BMO World Elite Regular MasterCard gives you four Lounge Accesses which is provided by Lounge Key Program. What it means that you can enter Lounge two times with their Miles World Elite Card and the Regular World Elite Card you can enter Lounge four times if that Lounge is covered by the Lounge Key Program then you don't have to pay anything but let's say you'd like to pay you'd like to enter in addition to these free entrances then instead of 27 dollars per visit you'll be paying 32 dollars US per visit if starting October 1st. I was kind of expecting this Priority Pass Lounge Access Program already has increased their membership to 32 dollars beyond the free visit about a year ago so Lounge Key is owned by the same company so they are going to increase to the 32 dollars as well. Most of the World Elite MasterCards have some sort of Lounge Program attached to it. Some of them offer free Lounge Accesses or Entrances and some of them just offer the membership but they do not offer the free Lounge Entrances or Passes. For example the BMO World Elite and the BMO Regular World Elite MasterCard offers two and four free Lounge Passes. Some of the cards just gives you the membership for example the Rogers World Elite MasterCard the Bream World Elite MasterCard and possibly the President Choice World Elite MasterCard although I'm not sure about that but I heard that they also have free they also have the Lounge Membership not the free Entrances. So what it means that if you have one of these cards for example Bream Rogers World Elite or possibly the President Choice MasterCard World Elite then you already have the membership you just need to pay 32 dollars each time you enter the Lounge starting October 1st up to that point it used to be 27 US Dollars. You might be asking whether this is or paying 32 dollars US to visit a Lounge. It depends if you wanted to have something to eat at a restaurant at the airport and then if you wanted to have a drink or spend some time at a restaurant then possibly you're going to be spending more money than 32 dollars US but if you go to a Lounge you can have free food, free drinks and sometimes free shower or free quality sitting arrangements and other stuff for 32 dollars. So for some of you it might make sense but if it doesn't make sense for you just spend 32 dollars to enter a Lounge then don't do that. But if you have a free Lounge access then definitely you should use those whenever you're traveling. Now I don't have any World Elite MasterCard that offers free Lounge entrances. I use a Priority Pass Lounge Access which comes with the Scotia Passport Visa Infinite and it gives six Lounge entrances so I don't need beyond six per year. But I do have some World Elite cars which have just a free membership but not the free entrances. Both of these two programs, Lounge Key and Priority Pass they are owned by the same parent company but Priority Pass has slightly more access to Lounge's and it covers slightly more airports and Lounge Key is just offered through the great cars. You cannot buy membership program via Lounge Key if you do not have that great card or if you do not have a great card which offers Lounge Key membership. So let's say if you do not have any great card you can still buy Priority Pass membership by paying annual fees and free Lounge entrances depending on what type of program you choose but you cannot buy Lounge Key Lounge Access program if you do not have a World Elite MasterCard which doesn't offer you Lounge Key program. So these are the two basic differences but at the end of the day they're almost the same thing. So that's all I wanted to talk about today. Thank you for watching this video. Forget about subscribing this channel. Forget about liking this video. I'll see you shortly.