{"id":146989,"date":"2016-12-09T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=146989"},"modified":"2016-12-09T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T10:13:30","slug":"slow-lounge-access-fnb-giveth-and-fnb-taketh-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/146989\/slow-lounge-access-fnb-giveth-and-fnb-taketh-away\/","title":{"rendered":"SLOW lounge access: FNB giveth, and FNB taketh away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has made changes to its rules for free visits to its Slow lounges around the world.<\/p>\n<p>From January 2017, free visits to FNB\u2019s airport and city lounges will be counted annually, rather than monthly.<\/p>\n<p>Free visits are based on your reward level at the time of entering the lounge, which is updated each month.<\/p>\n<p>Unused free visits do not roll over to the next year.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not meet the qualifying criteria, or you have used all your free visits, you will be charged R250 for entering the lounge.<\/p>\n<p>No guests will be allowed during peak times and only your first guest is free during off-peak times.<\/p>\n<p>Your free guest\u2019s visit will be deducted from your visits for the year. Guests beyond the first are also charged at R250 per person.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">FNB Premier slow lounge access<\/h3>\n<p>FNB Premier clients previously received 2 free domestic slow lounge visits per month and 2 free visits per month to the Slow in the City lounge in Sandton.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, you had to be on eBucks reward level 1 or above.<\/p>\n<p>Premier cardholders also have access to Slow International for a fee of R250 per cardholder, R250 per additional guest, and R50 per child between 2 and 18 \u2013 if they meet the qualifying criteria.<\/p>\n<p>If you do not meet the criteria for discounted visits, entry is R500.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Qualifying criteria for free visits<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Free visits per year<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 1<\/td>\n<td><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 2<\/td>\n<td><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 3<\/td>\n<td><strong>8<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 4<\/td>\n<td><strong>10<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 5<\/td>\n<td><strong>12<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">FNB Private slow lounge access<\/h3>\n<p>FNB Private clients previously received 4 free domestic and international lounge visits, and 2 free Slow in the City lounge visits per month.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, you had to be on eBucks reward level 1 or above.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rules, free visits are shared between Slow Domestic Lounges and Slow International.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Qualifying criteria for free visits<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Free visits per year<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 1<\/td>\n<td><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 2<\/td>\n<td><strong>12<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 3<\/td>\n<td><strong>36<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 4<\/td>\n<td><strong>48<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>eBucks Reward Level 5<\/td>\n<td><strong>Unlimited<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Here are your new banking fees for 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/146663\/here-are-your-banking-fees-for-2017\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here are your new banking fees for 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has made changes to its rules for free visits to its Slow lounges around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":134825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-146989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146995,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146989\/revisions\/146995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}