David_DLI

The One World Emerald lounge seems to be closed due to maintenance, so they sent me to Al Mourjan instead. Oh poor me!

d3vski

Hello.........Anyone else here?

currently in the lounge and it's like a ghost town!

i have never seen it so quiet before as I normally transit early morning or in the middle of the night.

BTW, I did see something interesting at the Business Centre......a whole group of what I imagine to be Qataris in all white dishdasha's having some sort of board meeting. They were escorted by dark blue uniform wearing Police guys, and quite a few of them.

Any ideas what that was all about?

DreamTrip

when raising the issue of no ventilation in the shower rooms today.

"Sir, you are the first one that says the shower rooms are too hot"

For real?

remdk

DreamTrip If what the attendant says is true, and I do mean IF then there should be a large number of members of this forum with red faces!

d3vski

Well that's a lie......I went through on 27/02 and said it was too hot as well! I was sweating by the time I came out!

Ok, so here's another FT hack.......why pay for a spa treatment in the Al Safwa when one can simply spend 45 minutes in a shower cubicle for free of charge! De facto steam room!

shuuy

Is Al Mourjan still preferred to HIA for a OWE?

remdk

shuuy welcome to the QR forum. I think you will find the dashboard a useful tool for browsing the forum.

Which would you prefer? The two star First Class lounge or the five star Al Mourjan? It's as simple as that.

Dr. HFH

OK, I'm missing something here. Isn't HIA for Hamad International Airport? This doesn't make sense to me.


If you're talking about comparing the OWE lounge at HIA to Al Mourjan, I completely agree with remdk. Al Mourjan is better than most F lounges I've been in.

CL9

But only being OWE is still too less for access the Al Mourjan Lounge or has it changed?
As I know you need to have a QR Business Class Ticket to get access.

remdk

CL9 To gain access to Al Mourjan you need to have either a QR or OW Business Class bording pass for your departing flight OR a QR or OW Business boarding pass from your arrival flight provided it is over 5 hours flight time.

wheatbeer

Interesting I thought access was for J and F on QR flights only. Is it a recent change for and OW J and F?

remdk

AndyRobin there ws a general tiding up and simplification of the access rules about nine months ago and the OW access was part of it.

DocS

Had our first visit to AM lounge last week and will be there again next week. Whilst the space, architecture and ambiance is incredible I was left a little cold by the food and drink offering. I wondered if we had missed something hence this post. In the restaurant upstairs we hoped for a menu service but it was a buffet with reasonably limited choices. No explanation of drinks available without going to the bar to peruse & we were offered soft drinks and had to ask for gin & tonic (with the waiter not sure what gin they had). The food area the other end seemed to have a chef preparing what were essentially toasted sandwiches.

Compared to the absolutely incredible service & food on our first QR J flight it felt like a let down. It may be that we are comparing unfairly to OWE lounges (e.g. CX at HKG) as opposed to business lounges but even some business lounges seem
to have better food/drink choices.

It just seemed incongruous with the sheer perfection of the onboard experience. May be only us but wondered if any others had had a similar experience or, more importantly, if we missed anything food or drinks wise? It may have been an off day for the staff we met perhaps.

On a positive note the showers were great (although no hairdryer without asking) and business centre good.

remdk

DocS The open flames in the kitchens upstairs were banned as a fire hazard! So the A La Carte menu had to be stopped!

bedelman

Remdk, fascinating. That's the first I heard of that.

But there's plenty of cooking elsewhere in the airport. All the restaurants! What does QR need to do to bring back cook-to-order upstairs? Install better fire safety equipment or something thereabouts? That seems doable and probably not that costly in the scheme of things.