Only in Finland, and only in Helsinki, and only with Finnair. Nowhere else can you enjoy a lounge sauna and a reindeer burger in the airline lounge. Not too shitty. But then I had to squeeze myself into a small metal tube for travel.
This is the platinum wing of the business lounge on the non-Schengen side of the airport. See here.
Burger:
There was also a great invention in the lounge sauna -- the lockers had an electrical socket, which meant that one could plug in one's phone to charge while in the sauna. Well done Finnair!
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