Nice report so far and love your photos' quality.
Originally Posted by
iceman77_7
Until this trip, my favorite overall lounge was the ANA NRT lounge, particularly for the free ice cream, sake bar/beer machine, and noodle bar. Although the F area of the Wing was under renovation (guess I'll have to come back), I loved the open air nature of the lounge and the multitude of food options was impressive. Freshly made pastries, Haagen-daz on demand, dim sum, extensive noodle bar menu (in contrast to the 3 choices at NRT)... It can only get better when the F area opens and the sit down restaurant area returns.
Wow, your standard is pretty low I guess.
NH lounge at NRT is ok, aside from cook-to-order noodle soup, overall the food option is pretty weak, so does NH F lounge, the food option good only compare to UA RCC at NRT. The ex-SQ lounge at NRT (closed since NH move to T1 and open their own lounge at T1) had a lot more food options and they don't even hide the ice-cream that you have to ask like at NH lounge (ex-SQ lounge also had Fauchon !). Even UA's RCC at HKG got more food options than NH lounge at NRT.
Originally Posted by
iceman77_7
In the remote gate area, there's the usual seating area and boarding pass scanners, but you board a bus to the plane. The gate area was crowded, but there were agents checking the BPs of the first/business class line. Although I was initially bummed about the remote gate, I was excited about the great tarmac views.
Wow, CX using a remote gate at HKG ? This is almost unheard of !
While it is nice you can get good shots of the tramac view, the drawback is always if you have heavy carryons, you always have to carry it upstairs from the ground up to the plane on your own, no one would help you even you fly F, that's why I used to really hate connecting in NRT in the past before their T1's extension.