Marco Polo Club

After taking advantage of the Marco Polo Club benefits, primarily early boarding and priority check-in lines at the airports, I highly recommend joining Cathay Pacific Airline's Marco Polo Club.  The priority check-in lines at the various airports were a nice benefit as they allowed us to bypass the much longer Economy Class check-in lines.  However, the main benefit that we really appreciated was the early boarding privileges afforded to both the Club member and partner.  As the non-Marco Polo Club passengers for Economy class began to crowd together for boarding, we were able to board early with the First Class and Business Class passengers.

Not only did this allow us to board in a relatively leisurely pace, it allowed us to secure our overhead bin space before the other Economy Class passengers even boarded.  Two years ago, we experienced a situation where people who boarded ahead of us had taken practically all of the overhead bin space before we even boarded.  Thus we took full advantage of the early boarding privileges that the Marco Polo Club afforded us.

The annual fee is $50 but I only intend to renew it when I am about to go on my next trip to Hong Kong and/or Singapore.   We found the club privileges to be more than worth the fee for this vacation.   For more information, note the following link:  Marco Polo Club