We visited this lounge on the way home from Ho Chi Minh City after a colleague’s destination wedding. I’d been here before, in March 2025 and again earlier this year, but walking in this time I genuinely thought I’d never set foot in the place. It turns out the lounge was closed for renovation and reopened on 20 December 2025, and the transformation is complete enough that none of it looked familiar.
The renovation came out of a partnership between SASCO, which operates ten lounges at Tan Son Nhat, and Airport Dimensions, the lounge operator under Collinson Group (the same group behind Priority Pass). The partnership was announced back in November 2024, and the Rose Business Lounge was the first project to come out of it. The design brief was built around the blue rose, and the interiors pull in materials from Vietnamese craft villages: pottery, warm wood tones, and bamboo and rattan weaving. That sounds like the sort of thing a press release says and a lounge fails to deliver, but in this case the result holds up. The materials are actually visible in the space rather than being a line in a document nobody checks.
Location and access
The Rose Business Lounge is located on the departures floor of the international terminal of Tan Son Nhat International Airport, near Gates 8 and 9. The reception sits on that level, so you check in there first. It’s easy enough to find if you’re walking in the direction of the gates, and the signage is clear.
Once you’re through reception, the lounge itself is on the floor below. You can take the stairs or the lift down. The split-level arrangement is unusual for an airport lounge, and it works in the lounge’s favour, since the reception traffic stays upstairs and doesn’t spill into the seating areas.
Access is available through Priority Pass.
Layout
The first thing you notice from the top of the stairs is the ceiling height. The lounge occupies a double-height volume, and standing at the upper level looking down gives you a proper sense of the scale before you’ve even walked in.
It’s bright and airy in a way that most airport lounges aren’t, helped by the windows running along one side and the pale, warm palette of the fit-out. Most lounges in this part of the world feel like they were designed to fit into whatever leftover floor space the terminal could spare. This one doesn’t.
Those windows also give you tarmac views, which is more than you get at plenty of lounges in this region. They’re not dramatic views by any measure, but natural light in an airport lounge counts for a lot, particularly if you’ve got an hour or two to sit through before boarding.
Downstairs, the seating is varied. There are dining tables for eating properly, sofas and armchairs for sitting back with a coffee, and solo work booths for anyone who needs to get something done before boarding.
The mix means you can usually find something that suits what you actually want to do, rather than compromising on a single style of seat repeated across the whole floor. The furnishings all look and feel new, which they are, and the craft village materials mentioned in the press release show up in the details: woven textures on partitions and screens, ceramic accents, wood that reads as warm rather than laminated.
Food and drinks
The cold selection covered cold cuts, cheese, a bread station, and fresh fruits. It’s the standard opening lineup for a lounge of this type, competently done and reasonably presented, though nothing here is going to surprise you.
The hot buffet leaned vegetarian, with baked baby potatoes, braised shiitake mushrooms, and spaghetti. The mushrooms were the pick of the three. The spaghetti was the sort of thing that sits in a buffet tray and slowly gives up on itself, which is true of buffet pasta everywhere and not a specific criticism of this lounge.
The best thing here is the live beef pho station. It was properly made, with the broth kept hot and the noodles and beef assembled to order rather than sitting in a tray losing texture. It’s the one item that felt like it belonged specifically to this lounge rather than any lounge anywhere, and it’s the sort of thing that gives a lounge a sense of place. I don’t recall seeing pho on offer during my visit last year, so this appears to be part of the upgrade. If you only eat one thing here, eat this.
For drinks, there’s a coffee machine, a chilled cabinet of soft drinks, and a small selection of wine along with Hanoi vodka. The coffee is machine-dispensed rather than made by a barista, which is what you’d expect at this level, and it does what it needs to before a flight. Vietnamese coffee culture being what it is, a proper ca phe sua da station would have been a natural addition here, and its absence is the one thing I’d change about the food and drink offering.
Amenities
There’s a newspaper stand near the seating area, and a business centre for anyone who needs to print something or take a call away from the main floor.
There are no showers here, which is the main gap if you’re transiting on a longer itinerary. For a two-hour wait before a short-haul flight, it hardly matters, but if you’re coming off something long-haul and connecting onwards, you’ll want to plan around it.
Concluding thoughts
The Rose Business Lounge is a clear improvement on what was here before. The decor is genuinely nicer, the space feels bright and open rather than cramped, and the live beef pho station gives the food offering something worth going out of your way for. Whatever the brief was, the design team took it seriously, and the result is a lounge that feels considered rather than assembled.
That said, it’s still a Priority Pass lounge at a regional airport, and the absence of showers limits how useful it is on a longer connection. The food beyond the pho is fine without being memorable, and the drinks selection is modest.
If you have an hour to kill before your flight, this is a comfortable place to spend it, and considerably more pleasant than the terminal. I wouldn’t arrive early specifically for it, but it’s now a lounge I’d actively choose to use rather than one I’d pass through out of habit.
