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Originally Posted by dragonfirebcn
Well, there was plenty of beers, wine and stronger booze on the bar. About food, I went at 10am so there was only snacks and breakfast stuff (croissants, muffins, cereal...)
Thanks so much for your report - I will be there soon myself and am keen to know how the food is. Was the breakfast spread good quality, freshly prepared/baked etc or pre-packaged, plasticy muffins/croissants etc? Thanks!
Thanks so much for your report - I will be there soon myself and am keen to know how the food is. Was the breakfast spread good quality, freshly prepared/baked etc or pre-packaged, plasticy muffins/croissants etc? Thanks!
Be aware that the lounge presently being used is actually the airport operated lounge. Star Alliance apparently will be opening a new lounge in autumn this year.
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I had the opportunity to visit the Spanair Star Alliance Lounge in T1 yesterday.
My apologies for no pictures. The lounge is furnished with overstuffed leather chairs that were incredibly comfortable. It is open and airy with giant picture windows facing the interior of the terminal as well as the tarmac.
The center of the lounge has a "quiet room" with soft leather chaise lounge chairs. Food offerings were light and consisted of danishes, olives (nice combination, eh?), potato chips, peanuts, rice crackers and apples.
Open bar, terrific espresso machines and a generous selection of chilled beverages.
I didn't use the shower facilities but did peek inside. I think the Lufthansa shower rooms are nicer but these would suffice if necessary.
I didn't have a need to use my laptop so I don't know about wi-fi signals, etc.
Overall, I liked the lounge very much!
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But I have to admit, I used to like that JK lounge in the old terminal... I have been genuinely surprised when I saw real glasses in Spanair lounge (as IB only stocks plastic glasses in its lounge), during my first vist after my company switched oneworld for *A.
For the record, the Spanair lounge has not yet opened. You saw the new airport authority lounge.
The Spanair/*A lounge opens in Autumn.
I have been in it a couple of times already and I am quite sure it is the Spanair lounge, at least the employees in the entrance are from Spanair and there are spanair signs all over the place.
Computers have not been installed yet but should be available in a few days. Probably wi-fi is already available but I doubt it is free.
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You can see from the press release quote above the Spanair lounge is due to open in September. Meanwhile it's the AENA lounge mentioned in that quote and on the Spanair website.
Here my last video about this terminal. The bottom line: T1 in BCN is a great terminal, but AENA doesn't know that this beautiful building needs to improve the efficiency.
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