I think one of my favorite credit card perks is airport lounge access. While I do not currently have any meaningful airline elite status, I am typically able to use an airline lounge when I travel thanks to having a Priority Pass Select membership.
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Pretty much all of my travels involve visiting at least one airport lounge. And while I wouldn’t say that I go out of my way to visit lounges (most U.S. lounges are not worth the trouble), I do find myself with a bias towards connecting in Dallas to visit the Capital One lounge instead of connecting in, say, Chicago. All that is to say that I have probably been in 100s of different lounges over the years, but recently I saw something in one of the lounges that I had never seen before
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Escape Lounge PDX has an area where “minors are permitted”
I was traveling back from Portland recently and stopped by the Escape Lounge PDX, which is located in Concourse D, near gates D8 and D10. This is a relatively new lounge (having opened in April 2025), and I actually had not even realized it existed until I checked the Priority Pass app on my way to the airport. I thought the only PDX Priority Pass locations were restaurants, and my Priority Pass card no longer is good for non-lounge experiences like restaurants, like it used to be back when I sampled every Priority Pass restaurant at PDX to find which one was best.
It was early in the morning when I visited the Escape Lounge PDX, and it was fairly empty. I was going through the lounge, looking at the different seating areas and amenities, when I came across this sign, that I had never seen before.
Why are “minors permitted” at Escape Lounge PDX?
I was a bit confused by this, since it wasn’t advertising a family area or an area targeted towards children. Instead, it seemed like it was just near a random seating area. Maybe you could argue that those black and orange chairs are “kid-friendly”, but I don’t think so. This area was not enclosed or sectioned off with any sort of rope or wall or anything.
I was also a bit confused by the wording, because normally I would expect to see possibly an area where minors were NOT permitted, rather than one where they expressly WERE permitted. I know I have seen plenty of anti-kid comments from people that probably wish that children were not allowed in lounges, first class cabins or even airplanes, but obviously I disagree with those opinions.
The Bottom Line
I asked a staff member at the lounge about the sign and she was not 100% sure. She said that maybe it was because it was somewhat near the bar in the lounge, which is just to the left of that area in the picture above. That seemed possible but still didn’t quite make sense to me, as I’ve never seen signs like this in any other lounges that have similar setups. But perhaps Oregon has laws that apply here?
Have you ever seen anything like this? Do you agree with the staff member’s explanation? Leave your thoughts in the comments below
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This sign is required by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) because of the type of liquor license the lounge has. https://oregon.public.law/rules/oar_845-006-0340
Awesome! Thanks so much for clearing this up for me 🙂
Yeah in Oregon places that serve alcohol generally either have a red sign that says minors are never permitted or a green sign that specifies limited hours minors are permitted, and then designated areas within that location may be further off limits, as the linked Rule notes. Seems like they got a nice placard for a particular section that’s away from the bar.
We see these so often we’re mostly blind to them (unless you have kids) so now I’m feeling like I need to check on what the Alaska Lounge does…