The lounge isn't yet open when United's flight leaves each morning, and you need to fly on TG metal.
You're offered one 30-minute foot or Thai massage, and I'd suggest the foot massage, because the Thai massage isn't the lay-flat, complete massage you'd get in-country, it's more of a sit-in-a-chair-shoulder-and-hand massage.
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BKKROP
I have never seen it, but they would do that, they may have been advised that someone MAY be travelling this morning, so they would block an area off. In town they will block whole suburbs, is it the Queen who loves the Dusit Thani?, I have been caught down in the deli twice now, when she has visited regards bkkrop
I've seen Thai generals in the lounge with a handful of bodyguards. They tend to sit at the bar. The private rooms are always available when I'm in the lounge.
As for the royal family... I'm surprised they wouldn't close the entire lounge for them. There's no limit to how much they'll inconvenience others in order to make the royal family's life run smoothly.
I live near one of the king's daughters. If she's driving by when I'm walking, I'm stopped by police to wait for her motorcade to go by. Can't continue walking, can't even pull out a camera. It was a huge issue for me once when I had a bit of an upset stomach and needed to return home fast.
If I'm in a taxi when she drives by, not only must the taxi stop, but if it's night, the stopped cars need to turn off their lights.
I'm hit with this about twice/week.
On one hand, I'm impressed by how efficiently they can route traffic and pedestrians.
On the other, the amount of resources they use for this is huge, and they really don't care whom they inconvenience or how much... when I'm stopped in traffic amongst hundreds of others in the same situation, I can just imagine some khunying running off to do her nails. And yes, that's sometimes what it is (I see one of them in the cosmetics section of Central Chitlom quite frequently).