'lounges' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. As a noun, 'lounges' refers to a comfortable seating area, often found in public spaces such as hotels, airports, or shopping malls. For example: - We sat in the airport lounge while waiting for our flight. - The hotel's lounge had a cozy fireplace and comfortable couches. As a verb, 'lounges' means to relax and enjoy oneself in a laid-back or leisurely manner. For example: - She lounged by the pool all day, sipping on a cocktail. - He likes to lounge on the couch and watch TV on the weekends. Overall, 'lounges' is a versatile word that can be used in various contexts to describe a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.
This pretty, medieval village-cum-town lounges in the Great Stour valley, a quiet, off-the-beaten-track cleft cut into the quiet, off-the-beaten-track Kentish North Downs, between Canterbury and Ashford (in its heyday – 1345 or so – the track round here was beaten to billyo, Kent having been the M1 of an era before modern ships, trains and planes, and the main line to Europe).
With a maximum of 131 berths, it rarely felt crowded; more often, the leather couches in the lounges were completely free to stretch out on.
The codeshare will come into force from 3 July and will give each airline's customers access to the other's loyalty schemes and lounges.
If the British state, in whatever form - we are not quite sure which bit of the British state we are dealing with - wants to get that material, then I think they have to do it through a more satisfactory procedure than this bizarre bit of the Terror Act that relates solely to ports and transit lounges of airports.
Rusbridger says schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act only applies to transit lounges [and ports].
But he really wanted to create one that looked like the faculty lounges of the Ivy League universities.
BA, British Midland, Air France and Lufthansa aim to make their money out of business travellers who pay over the odds to enjoy meals and loads of drinks in the air and on the ground in exclusive lounges.
To entice the richest travellers out of business lounges, where they tend to hunker down, Heathrow recently launched a "personal-shopper" service.Such tricks have built up shopping at airports, on board ferries and aeroplanes and at border crossings into a big business.
Cafés and lounges are interspersed with work desks and whiteboards, and there is free Wi-Fi everywhere.
And for the airlines themselves, on-board digital conversations present new opportunities to eavesdrop on and better understand their customers, enabling them to respond with advice or less appealingly unsolicited marketing (Qantas already monitors what people say in its lounges via a tool called Local Measure).
That means better lounges, with wireless internet and plenty of desks, restaurants suitable for meetings, gym facilities, showers and so on.Business travellers can then feel confident that delays won't waste their time.
