The UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card currently offers unlimited lounge visits for the principal cardholder and one guest, to over 1,400 airport lounges in the DragonPass network. Unfortunately, this benefit is set to be nerfed significantly from June, when the entitlement will be cut to just 12 visits per membership year.
To UOB’s credit, it has provided plenty of notice regarding this change— it was first announced back in June 2025. If you have to nerf a card, then this is probably the fairest way of doing so; imagine paying an annual fee and expecting unlimited lounge visits for a year, only to have that benefit removed a few months later!
UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card cuts lounge visits to 12 per year
From 1 June 2026, the UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card’s lounge benefit will offer 12 complimentary visits per 12-month membership year, replacing the current unlimited access.
This benefit is for the principal cardholder only. As before, supplementary cardholders do not receive any lounge visits of their own. However, principal cardholders can choose to bring one or more guests with them, deducting the corresponding number of visits. For example, visiting with three guests would deduct a total of four visits.
Once all the complimentary visits have been utilised, further visits will be charged at US$32 per person. Unused visits will not roll over to the next membership year.
To be frank, the lounge benefit was already limited since April 2025, when UOB quietly introduced a four-hour cooldown period between utilisations.
| 💬 Statement from UOB |
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“We revised the UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card’s fair usage policy for airport lounge access under the Airport Companion Program by DragonPass in April 2025, adjusting the waiting period between lounge and restaurant visits to four hours. This is to ensure fair access for all our cardholders.” -UOB spokesperson |
What this means is that cardholders need to wait at least four hours after one visit to redeem another, whether it’s a lounge, set meal or airport experience. So unless you arrive at the airport very early, or have a layover in your itinerary, you’re effectively capped at one use per flight.
Therefore, the further reduction will mostly impact cardholders who take more than 12 flights a year.
Additional FAQs about the change can be found here.
Which app to use?
The UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card’s lounge benefit is provided by DragonPass, but where it gets confusing is that DragonPass has three different apps. The correct app to use depends on which card you have.
You only use the official DragonPass app if:
- You purchased a membership directly from DragonPass
- You’re using the OCBC VOYAGE Card
Otherwise, you’ll be using either the Mastercard Travel Pass (for Mastercards) or Airport Companion (for the UOB Visa Infinite and other Visa cards). Refer to the table below for more details.
| If your credit card is a… | …download this app |
 OCBC VOYAGE Card OCBC Premier Visa Infiniteor if you purchased a membership directly from DragonPass |
 DragonPass(Android | iOS) |
 Mastercard |
 Mastercard Travel Pass |
 Visa |
 Airport Companion |
Unlimited lounge access on $120K cards is slowly ending
The UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card becomes the third S$120K card to axe unlimited lounge visits, after the Citi Prestige in July 2025 and the Maybank Visa Infinite in August 2023.
With the HSBC Visa Infinite no longer open for applications, and the OCBC VOYAGE rumoured to be mulling a similar cut, we could very well be seeing the demise of unlimited lounge access on S$120K cards.
| Card | Free Visits (Per Year) |
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| Main | Supp. | |
 HSBC Visa Infinite |
∞ | ∞ (up to 5x cards) |
| OCBC VOYAGE Card |
∞ | 2 |
 Citi Prestige Card |
12 |
N/A |
 DBS Vantage Card |
10 |
N/A |
| UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card |
12 | N/A |
 StanChart Visa Infinite |
6 |
N/A |
 Maybank Visa Infinite |
4 | N/A |
 AMEX Platinum Reserve |
N/A | N/A |
At the rate things are going, I would not be surprised if unlimited lounge access soon becomes a perk that’s restricted to cards with four-digit annual fees, like the AMEX Platinum Charge or StanChart Beyond Card.
If it’s any consolation, you can actually enjoy up to 22 free lounge visits a year without having to pay any annual fees, if you don’t mind applying for several cards.
Conclusion
The UOB Visa Infinite Metal Card will no longer offer unlimited lounge visits from June 2026, with cardholders downgraded to 12 visits per 12-month membership period instead.
It’s an unfortunate development, though cutting unlimited lounge access does appear to be the way that the S$120K segment is headed at the moment. The least you can say is that UOB provided plenty of notice about this change, unlike other banks!
I’d be interested to know how many people are actually maxing out the unlimited access benefit in such a costly way to the card issuers that they have to scale this back.