BA Biz Class Club Suite NY to London - Full Review! (2025)

Well, it's Christmas guys and we are on our annual trip back to the UK to celebrate with the family. We're taking the BA club suite on the 787 from JFK Terminal 8 to London Heathrow on Christmas Eve and we will bring you along for the ride so you can see the whole experience. I parked at the long term parking lot so we had to take the air train to our terminal. Check in for British Airways and American Airlines premium cabins is in this little closed off area and the lines are definitely shorter or tonight actually non-existent. BA Club World passengers get access to the Greenwich lounge that they share with American Airlines. It's on the left immediately after security. This lounge has many seating options from armchairs to tables and chairs to little work booths and even a quiet room. Are you excited about your vacation? Yeah. I really like the food here and I basically ate a full meal before going on the plane where I would have another full meal. In the lounge I had broccoli and cheddar soup, roast beef, hummus, olives, cheese, ham, etc. And this is what my wife had, a bit more heavy on the salads. The coffee machine here is also decent. I had a cappuccino and the lounge has definitely improved since last time I was here. Hey guys, well we are at the Greenwich lounge just waiting to board our flight. Last time, if you remember, we came to this lounge like two days after it had opened in winter 2022 and it was a little bit disappointing back then. But I'd say that this lounge has actually improved quite a lot. I didn't see any dirty bowls this time and the food was really good. I was really getting into that roast beef. But anyway, we've been here for a while. It's boarding time in just a few minutes, so let's go get our flight. We get to the gate just as boarding starts with group 1 and 2. We are group 2 so we can board immediately. My daughters are pretty excited. They haven't been on a plane with beds in a couple of years. I was in seat 10F with my wife in front of me and my two daughters to the right by the window. This was a Christmas Eve flight arriving on Christmas morning, so there were a few extra Christmas touches. Every Christmas, an original. They had a box of this Christmas fudge at every seat and as usual, you got a pre-take-off drink. I went for an orange juice, but they of course did have some harder stuff on offer. Alright, let's take off and then we'll show you around the seat. But first, I run a small business and a service that I really find useful is Melio. It is a business-to-business payment platform offering multiple ways to pay vendors and such as same-day ACH and the ability to pay international vendors in US dollars or foreign currencies. One thing I really like is Melio provides the ability to use a credit card to pay vendors that wouldn't normally accept cards for a small 2.9% fee. Why is this useful? Well, let's say I was trying to get the 75,000 points welcome bonus on the British Airways Visa card to get a free business class flight, well that requires $5,000 in spend. Maybe I don't have that much, so I pay a vendor who doesn't normally accept cards through Melio and they either send a check or make a bank transfer on my behalf. Then I get 75,000 British Airways miles which can also be used on American Airlines too. That's at least $1,500 in value for those points for a 2.9% fee which comes out at $145 on that $5,000 purchase. Another useful feature is dealing with cash flow issues. If I owe money to a vendor who doesn't accept cards but I haven't been paid yet, I can first pay with a credit card through Melio and then I have potentially up to 45 days or so depending on where I am with my billing cycle to pay off my card with no interest. 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Then the bedding comes from the white company as does the amenity kit and that used to be black but they've now changed the case to white. And here is what is inside. We have a mask, socks, lip balm, moisturiser and some aromatherapy oils. Then we have earplugs and a dental kit. The flight does have wifi that you can log onto with your phone or other device. Messaging apps are free to use but if you want to use more data then you have to pay. The seat does turn into a fully flatbed but when you are in seat mode you have this little footstool. On the entertainment system you'll find a good selection of movies and it's good to see that BA still regards Die Hard as a Christmas movie. My kids started playing Monopoly which you can play with passengers in other seats and I started checking out the menu. The Christmas dinner looked really good. Strangely though the air stewardess told my wife that they didn't have it anymore that all the Christmas dinners had been ordered but when she came to me I said I wanted the Christmas dinner and she just said ok, no questions asked. I must have just given off an I'm celebrating Christmas and no one is stopping me kind of energy. Before dinner you get a hot towel and then it's time to eat. Looking at the Christmas dinner it doesn't look that appetising but the flavour was pretty good for a plain meal. And I really loved this little Christmas log dessert. After dinner I was ready to turn the seat into a bed and go to sleep. You get a mattress topper but it's not as good as the one on United Polaris which makes the bed really comfortable. But the club suite does have this little door which really adds to the privacy. Before sleeping I did my usual meditation at 38,000 feet and was able to comfortably meditate for about half an hour and then I hit the hay. When I woke up we were pretty close to the UK, just flying over Ireland. The sunrise looked really beautiful out the window. I did take a light breakfast of tea, a muffin and a chia seed pudding. But you could choose to skip breakfast and get more sleep because when you land you have access to the British Airways Arrivals Lounge in Terminal 5. Here you can get a really nice breakfast after maximising sleep on the plane. At Christmas time it is also decorated really nicely and still fully staffed even on Christmas Day morning and that was perfect because they have dozens of shower suites here where you can take what British Airways describes as an invigorating power shower. So we are in the shower suite at the Arrivals Lounge at Heathrow. This is a little bit of a perk that some people might not know about. They used to give you a little card that was an invite to the Arrivals Lounge and they didn't do that this time so you might not even realise that there's a lounge that you can go to when you arrive to get breakfast and a shower and even if you go to the lounge you might not figure out that you can get a shower here. It's really worth it because like you saw there's a massive amount of shower rooms. You're not going to have a wait. It's like overkill the amount of showers, there's like a hundred rooms or something. But anyway let's show you around. So this is basically what you get. You've got a little closet on the back of the door to hang your clothes, keep them dry I guess whilst there's water spraying around. Then there's this toilet and the mirror and everything. You've got a hairdryer here and then they provide all the towels and everything so don't worry you don't have to bring your own towels. And then this is the shower. You've got like a rain head thing and then another shower head down here and yeah it's really nice. And they are power showers which I guess that's a UK thing but it's just the water pressure is really good. So anyway let's check it out. There we go. Nothing like a good shower to freshen up after a long flight. Let's go. Alright guys to sum it up British Airways on this route does really provide a consistent service at a competitive price. The seat is as good as any other business class seat. The bed is fully flat. The only thing I think could make it better is a proper mattress pad like you get on United. The food lets them down just a little bit but it still beats the US legacy carriers. JetBlue though is better in my opinion. But one thing I really like is the arrivals lounge. It means you can maximise sleep on the plane. Actually if you ate dinner at the JFK lounge and breakfast at Heathrow you could get about six hours sleep on the flight. In addition the number of flights available per day gives you a lot of flexibility if you book with BA and you can go from either JFK or Newark. If you book with Avios those are British Airways is miles. It's about 50,000 Avios each way 60,000 at peak times. But you will pay about $800 or more in taxes and fees if you fly directly to the UK. You can lower that by switching planes in another country Spain for example. Alright guys that is the video for today. What business class product should I try next. Please let me know and don't forget to check out Melio and see how their powerful tools can help your business by going to gomelio.com slash ben 2025 or click the link below. Please subscribe to the channel if you're new and we'll see you next time. Bye bye.