OSL lounge

As I was flying out of Norway's Oslo / Gardemoen airport, I got a chance to visit the lounge that Finnair had a deal with for people with frequent flier status: the OSL lounge. The international side OSL lounge (there's two, the other one is at the domestic side).

It was a nice and quiet lounge, with enough power sockets around. And open long enough for my delayed flight time. Some salad, soups, pasta, bread, and snacks were available. And a shower! I really, really needed this because I had been hiking, and had been unable to find a swimming pool or sauna open to the public anywhere on my trip from outskirts of Oslo to the airport.

Such bliss to be able to have a shower after a long day, before joining a flight. Probably also good for the people sitting next to me in the plane :-) 

But I ended up walking from one end of the airport to another and back to get there. The ticket said "airport lounge", and I didn't pay attention to the fact that the airport had a domestic and international section... or the "near gates E" note in the ticket. When I passed through security, I just saw "SAS lounge" to the right and "OSL lounge" to the left. At the very end on the left (a long walk), I realized that I was at the wrong place. So now I needed to walk back past the exit from security, and still forward to the other end of the airport, indeed near gates E. Maybe they could add some more signage, there was nothing at the security exit about international or domestic, or the other OSL lounge. 

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