SAS Cafe Lounge

Five minutes from gate 30, this SAS Cafe Lounge is history

This SAS Cafe Lounge sat in the domestic/Schengen transit hall near gate 30 in Terminal A/B, but it closed for good in December 2023. It used to be the only SAS-branded space airside at Trondheim Værnes for domestic passengers, mainly serving EuroBonus elites and SAS Plus travelers hopping to Oslo or beyond. Today the glass doors and turnstiles remain, but the lounge is no longer operating, so plan on using the general seating in the transit hall instead.

Back when it was running, the lounge worked as a small, single-room stop with all seating facing the domestic gates around 30–32. Reviews describe it as “basically just one large room” with the same IKEA‑style furniture as other SAS Cafe Lounges, but frequent flyers noted that Wi‑Fi here felt noticeably faster than at Oslo Gardermoen. Power sockets and USB ports sat by nearly every seat, so charging a laptop before a 40–60 minute hop to OSL was easy.

Catering was intentionally light: one review lists fruit, cookies, wheat buns, cinnamon rolls, and simple snacks as the core offer. Drinks ran to soft drinks, coffee from a machine, and tea bags; one report specifically calls out the lack of proper sandwiches and no alcoholic drinks. “Easier snacks” is how one YouTube reviewer described it while waiting for a TRD–OSL flight, and that sums it up: a coffee and a bun before boarding from gate 30 or 31.

Facilities were bare-bones. There were no restrooms inside the lounge; toilets sat a short walk away in the transit hall, roughly 30–60 seconds from the door. Guests needed to carry a boarding pass or EuroBonus card when stepping out, since entry used automatic turnstiles and the lounge could be completely unstaffed at off-peak hours. Wi‑Fi was free, with the password printed on small signs near the buffet and on a wall column.

Regulars treated this place as a holding pen for 20–40 minutes, not a place to arrive early for. People would tap in, grab coffee, maybe charge phones at the window seats, then pop out to the public toilets and tap back in. With the December 2023 closure, none of that works anymore. One practical tip: if you remember using this lounge, mentally erase it from your TRD routine and instead budget a few extra minutes to grab food landside before clearing security into the domestic transit hall.