{"id":24761,"date":"2015-11-11T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=24761"},"modified":"2015-11-11T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:07:24","slug":"executive-lounges-at-trivandrum-and-ernakulam-railway-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/executive-lounges-at-trivandrum-and-ernakulam-railway-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport-Like Executive Lounges at Trivandrum and Ernakulam Railway Stations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon IRCTC will setup executive lounge at Trivandrum and Ernakulam Railway station to provide airport lounge-like facilities to train passengers at an affordable rate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the new executive lounges, waiting for a train will no longer be an ordeal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The old booking office at the Trivandrum Central station and the old parcel office in Ernakulam Junction have been identified for setting up the lounges. Already, IRCTC has given the drawings for executive lounges. The shortlisted designs have been forwarded to the railway headquarters for approval.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24763\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24763\" class=\"wp-image-24763 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-2.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Lounge Delhi station 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-2-222x148.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Lounge at Delhi Railway Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The swanky executive lounges, which will be a state-of- the-art facility, can help the train passengers recover from tiredness during the journey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24762\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24762\" class=\"wp-image-24762 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-1.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Lounge Delhi station 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-1-222x148.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Lounge at Delhi Railway Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The lounge will provide a string of airport-like facilities, including wash and change, Wi-Fi, Internet, Live TV, music channels, buffet services, newspaper\/bookstand, luggage racks, shoe shiner, train information system and concierge services for pre-departure and post-arrival assistance to passengers. The lounges, which will have a uniform design, will be set up and managed by the IRCTC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24764\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24764\" class=\"wp-image-24764 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-3.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Lounge Delhi station 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Lounge at Delhi Railway Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Passengers staying beyond the initial period will have to pay additional money. Executive lounge will accept credit cards and debit cards, apart from cash. It will make travel safer as passengers are not required to carry cash.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24765\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24765\" class=\"wp-image-24765 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2015\/11\/Executive-Lounge-Delhi-station-5.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Lounge Delhi station 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Lounge at Delhi Railway Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the new executive lounges, waiting for a train will no longer be an ordeal. Once operational, it will hugely change the profile of passenger amenities at these stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon IRCTC will setup executive lounge at Trivandrum and Ernakulam Railway station to provide airport lounge-like facilities to train passengers at an affordable rate. With the new executive lounges, waiting for a train will no longer be an ordeal. The old booking office at the Trivandrum Central station and the old parcel office in Ernakulam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}