Reimagined United Polaris Lounge Opens in Chicago
United immediately opened its newly renovated and expanded United Polaris lounge at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport, providing vacationers more room, a contemporary design and higher facilities. The lounge is situated in Terminal 1 close to gate C18, and it’s open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. CT every day.
The United Polaris lounge in Chicago is now 50% bigger and options almost 25,000 sq.-ft. of lounge house, together with greater than 350 seats for vacationers, 50 seats throughout a bigger eating house, a second bar, six extra restrooms, personal areas for rest or work, and a spread of merchandise curated together with Crate & Barrel.
United opened its first United Polaris lounge in 2016 and at present has six of them within the U.S.. Worldwide prospects touring in United Polaris and premium Star Alliance cabins can entry the United Polaris lounge at areas in Chicago, Houston, Washington D.C., New York/Newark, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Since 2022, United has additionally opened or renovated a complete of 9 United Membership areas throughout its system, together with the latest opening of United Membership Fly in Houston. In 2025, the airline will open a brand new eating room within the United Polaris lounge in Newark and a renovated and expanded United Membership in Denver’s B West Terminal. Internationally, United plans to reopen the United Membership in Hong Kong. In 2026, United will open a brand new United Membership in San Francisco and its largest-ever United Membership in Houston.
Try extra particulars concerning the lounge under, as shared within the press launch.
Extra Eating and Beverage Choices
With the addition of a second bar within the newly renovated United Polaris lounge, United is the primary and solely U.S. airline to supply two full-service bars in a enterprise class lounge. There are actually greater than 25 bar seats with an choice to takeaway a drink to a different seating space and a menu of top-shelf liquor, premium wines, non-alcoholic drinks and extra. The brand new, second bar is a speakeasy-style house with a collection of premium wine and champagne choices, comparable to Laurent-Perrier La Cuvée Brut, and Chicago-inspired cocktails, together with the Second Metropolis Bitter that includes Rittenhouse Rye, Malort, Lemon, Egg White and Lingua Franca Pinot Noir.
The renovated lounge additionally contains a bigger eating space with greater than 50 seats – almost tripling the quantity of eating seats – the place vacationers can order à la carte meals with curated premium meals and drinks, together with Prosciutto Parmigiano Crostini, Shrimp, Scallop, Spring Vegetable Risotto and Aperol Spritz cake.
Along with a la carte eating, prospects can get pleasure from a sizzling buffet with breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, mezze station with lemon honey whipped ricotta, flatbreads and extra, and snacks served at each bars like premium nuts, mediterranean olives and a charcuterie board.
Chicago-Impressed Design and Decor from Crate & Barrel
Impressed by the native area, the renovated United Polaris lounge displays the Chicago space by celebrating the town’s structure and distinctive geography. United labored with Johalla Tasks, an artwork curatorial collective in Chicago, to showcase paintings from 9 Chicago-based artists on a spread of items, together with print images, work, collages and extra that spotlight the area.
To raise the lounge expertise, dinnerware and decor is supplied by Crate & Barrel. Marking Chicago-based Crate & Barrel’s first-ever collaboration with an airline, United labored with the retailer’s in-house design and enterprise gross sales groups to curate timeless items that elevate the traveler expertise. From Crate & Barrel’s traditional Marin dinnerware and new Tuscan Marble assortment, to colours of Le Creuset which might be unique to the retailer, each element was chosen to reinforce each kind and performance.
