What Travelers Did To Airport Lounge is DISGUSTING

Air France has permanently shut down the sauna in its Paris Charles de Gaulle business lounge after travelers repeatedly used the private room for sex.

Quick Take

Air France closed the sauna in its Terminal 2E, Hall L lounge for good, not for repairs or cleaning.
A lounge manager told a visiting travel writer that guests had been “doing things in there that they should not have.”
The room now sits locked behind a Staff Only sign, and outside signage pointing to the sauna has been removed.
Air France’s own lounge pages have quietly dropped the sauna from their list of amenities.

A Popular Perk Disappears Without Warning

Travelers flying business class through Paris Charles de Gaulle have long enjoyed a quiet perk: a private sauna tucked inside the Terminal 2E, Hall L lounge. It was the kind of small luxury that made a long layover feel special. That perk is gone now, and Air France does not plan to bring it back.

A travel blogger who writes for Live and Let’s Fly discovered the change firsthand. He walked toward the familiar wood-paneled room expecting his usual pre-flight ritual. Instead he found a locked door and a sign reading Staff Only. The sauna signage that once pointed guests toward the room had also vanished from the hallway wall entirely.

Lounge Staff Confirm The Closure Is Permanent

Curious about the sudden change, the blogger asked a lounge manager whether the closure was temporary. The answer was a flat no. The manager explained, choosing his words carefully, that passengers had been “doing things in there that they should not have”. That description leaves little doubt about why Air France pulled the plug on the amenity for good.

This is not the first time bad behavior has forced Air France to shut down parts of this same lounge. One traveler recalled an earlier visit when someone vomited in the lounge hours before his arrival, forcing a deep cleaning and temporary closure. The sauna situation, though, is different. This time the airline decided the risk was not worth the reward, and it walked away from the amenity entirely rather than trying to police it.

Official Pages Quietly Erase The Amenity

Air France’s own website tells the same story without saying it outright. The company’s lounge guide for Paris Charles de Gaulle now describes the Hall L lounge as only “partially open,” listing a bar, restaurant, relaxation area, and Clarins spa treatments, but no sauna anywhere in the description. Compare that to Air France’s corporate site, which still advertises “a sauna is available” at this exact lounge, a claim now clearly out of date.

Other visitors have confirmed the same dead end in person. One traveler noted the spa area was listed but a cleaning attendant told them it was simply out of service, with no timeline for reopening. Between the removed signage, the locked door, and the scrubbed website listings, every signal points the same direction: this closure is not a maintenance pause. It is final.

A Familiar Pattern In Premium Travel

Airport lounges sell themselves on exclusivity and comfort, but that formula only works when guests respect shared spaces. Airlines have shut down lounges before over health violations, overcrowding, and outright abuse of access rules. A private sauna with little staff oversight was always going to be a soft target for misuse, and once behavior crossed a line, Air France chose to remove the amenity rather than manage it indefinitely.

The bigger lesson here is simple and unsurprising. Premium perks depend on a basic level of trust between an airline and its passengers. When a small number of people abuse that trust, everyone loses the benefit. Air France’s decision to permanently shutter the sauna, rather than post a guard or add cameras, suggests the airline decided the whole amenity was no longer worth the trouble.

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— Joseph Padilla (@JoePadilla1967) August 16, 2026

For now, business class travelers passing through Hall L will have to find another way to unwind before their flight. The showers, relaxation area, and spa treatments remain, but the sauna that once set this lounge apart is locked behind a door that says Staff Only, and it is not coming back.