Plaza Premium Lounge
An airport lounge that you can rest before your flight or during a layover is the Plaza Premium Lounge. There is also the Maple Leaf Lounges and Priority Pass Lounges.
As a guest of a lounge, you will get more comfortable seating, hot food entrées, soup and salad bar, hot and cold beverages, alcoholic beverages, Wi-Fi internet access and computer stations, shower facilities, newspapers, magazines and TV.
These lounges are generally pay-per use, but you can redeem 3,500 American Express Membership Rewards for a lounge pass. Though these Membership Rewards passes are not accepted in all the lounges across Canada.
Below are the list of Plaza Premium Lounges in Canada. The ones with an * are ones where the Membership Rewards lounge pass is accepted (UPDATE- no longer available):
Edmonton International Airport (YEG)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (US Departures)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (Domestic/ International Departures)
Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (International Departures, Terminal 1)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (US Transborder, Terminal 1)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (Domestic Departures, Terminal 1)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (International Departures, Terminal 3) (near Gate C32)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (Domestic Departures, Terminal 3)
Vancouver International Airport (YVR)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (Domestic Departures)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (International Departures)
- Plaza Premium Lounge (USA Departures)
- Distinguished Visitors Lounge (International Arrival)
Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport (YWG)
- Departure Terminal (to be opened in the later part of 2014)