Best/Worst lounges on NZ network
Aug 31, 2015, 3:46 am
#1742
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: New Zealand
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Sep 1, 2015, 1:41 am
#1743
Join Date: Aug 2012
Programs: NZ EP
Posts: 184
I could help with photos....
But you'd be mightily disappointed, with shots of the tired ole beast. Furniture looking particularly shaggy this evening.
Word on the street is opening not until October now. Lovely staff murmured something about surrounding building works causing s few issues...I blame the project managers
Now, I just need someone to hold me back from the cheese and crackers... And the 'gluten free' rocky road.
But you'd be mightily disappointed, with shots of the tired ole beast. Furniture looking particularly shaggy this evening.
Word on the street is opening not until October now. Lovely staff murmured something about surrounding building works causing s few issues...I blame the project managers
Now, I just need someone to hold me back from the cheese and crackers... And the 'gluten free' rocky road.
Sep 1, 2015, 1:50 am
#1744
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SJC
Programs: NZ*G, QF NB, UA 1K, AA ExecPlat, IHG PlatAmb, HHonors Gold, SPG Gold, Marriott Gold, ZE1 PC
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WLG Domestic pretty decent tonight. Beer count sadly a shadow of itself from 10 years ago.
WLG Domestic pretty decent tonight. Beer count sadly a shadow of itself from 10 years ago.
Sep 1, 2015, 2:04 am
#1745
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Auckland
Programs: NZ*E
Posts: 186
Given I was told 'August 25' by the lounge staff in late July, it will be a bummer if it's not open when I'm next going through Auckland in the middle of this month
Sep 1, 2015, 3:14 am
#1747
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Auckland
Programs: NZ*E
Posts: 186
Asked the 'premium team' tonight while talking to them about a seperate issue and they didn't have any insight on the lounge - not sure if that means anything though, she didn't seem to know it was being upgraded at all!
Sep 1, 2015, 6:17 am
#1748
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Tauranga, New Zealand
Programs: NZ*G
Posts: 81
The secrecy does seem a little unnecessary given the mention of the lounge in press releases etc.
Sep 1, 2015, 9:09 pm
#1749
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: CHC
Programs: NZ*S, IHG D
Posts: 97
This is the reply I got from social media team... nothing really new.
I'm travelling out of AKL to LAX on Friday and was looking forward to the new lounge. Hope the current one isn't too much of a rugby scrum.
Hi Brad, we’re applying the finishing touches to our new lounge and we’ll be making an announcement on when it will be opening soon. Watch this space! ^NA
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Oct 12, 2015, 8:32 pm
#1750
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Auckland
Programs: NZ GOLD (*G), KLM FB S, QF S,
Posts: 291
Oct 12, 2015, 9:54 pm
#1751
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: New Zealand (most of the time)
Programs: Air NZ Elite *G, Honors Gold, IHG Platinum Elite
Posts: 6,119
So NZ have 13 lounges now (3 + 10 regional). I assume we're simply going to see the 1 new regional lounge in Wgtn as part of the terminal upgrade (and move to centralized screening). That's hardly "14 new lounges"
Oct 12, 2015, 10:31 pm
#1752
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: SYD
Programs: QF LTG, VASG, NZ*S, OZD, IHG SpireAMB, HHD
Posts: 1,421
Do you actually expect these reporters to have any idea about anything they write? Or there to be someone to check what they have written makes sense?
Oct 28, 2015, 10:57 pm
#1753
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Programs: NZ*G, QRPC Gold
Posts: 127
Hi all,
I'm about to sample the Hamilton lounge tomorrow, after a day trip from WLG for work. There hasn't been much comment on it in this thread. Does it get as busy as the NSN one?
I WAS on the 3:25pm flight out - which has been cancelled, and I've been re-accommodated on the 4:25pm flight back to Wellington.
I'm about to sample the Hamilton lounge tomorrow, after a day trip from WLG for work. There hasn't been much comment on it in this thread. Does it get as busy as the NSN one?
I WAS on the 3:25pm flight out - which has been cancelled, and I've been re-accommodated on the 4:25pm flight back to Wellington.
Oct 29, 2015, 3:42 am
#1754
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Wellington
Programs: QFWP (LTSG), NZ (Jade), TG ROP (Forgotten), OZ (Silver), AA (Cardboard), EK (Lowest of the Low)
Posts: 4,669
Hi all,
I'm about to sample the Hamilton lounge tomorrow, after a day trip from WLG for work. There hasn't been much comment on it in this thread. Does it get as busy as the NSN one?
I WAS on the 3:25pm flight out - which has been cancelled, and I've been re-accommodated on the 4:25pm flight back to Wellington.
I'm about to sample the Hamilton lounge tomorrow, after a day trip from WLG for work. There hasn't been much comment on it in this thread. Does it get as busy as the NSN one?
I WAS on the 3:25pm flight out - which has been cancelled, and I've been re-accommodated on the 4:25pm flight back to Wellington.
Oh do not forget to pay the departure levy when you get to the airport.
Oct 29, 2015, 4:33 pm
#1755
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Usually Auckland, NZ
Programs: NZ Elite (*G), QF S (OWR), UA 0.14MM
Posts: 690
Best Australasia lounge: NZ Koru at CHC?!?
So according to NZ Herald this morning:
Surely they mean the Domestic Koru lounge instead of the International one?
I must admit, CHC Domestic Koru is probably the nicest of the lot, but surely there are better lounges in Australasia? The new AKL International NZ for example? Or the new SYD International NZ?
Surprised the various Qantas' First lounges didn't make the cut. Then again, I am always sceptical about these "awards" and who actually judges them, let alone the judging criterias...
The airline was also named Australasia's Leading Airport Lounge for the Air New Zealand Lounge at Christchurch International Airport for the third year running.
I must admit, CHC Domestic Koru is probably the nicest of the lot, but surely there are better lounges in Australasia? The new AKL International NZ for example? Or the new SYD International NZ?
Surprised the various Qantas' First lounges didn't make the cut. Then again, I am always sceptical about these "awards" and who actually judges them, let alone the judging criterias...