Originally Posted by
NickB
(...) but the behaviour you describe does not strike me, on the basis of the mixed use lounges that I have used over the years, as very frequent nor markedly more common than in airline-affiliated lounges.(...).
On both occasions I mentioned, that was definitely a particular kind of clientèle, i.e. a group of friends with a culture of binge drinking having a ball because on holiday trips.
At Plaza Lounge in KUL (mixed access paid and C class and FF PAX), the crowd is definitely better behaved (Saudi PAX definitely not drinking much; they can't anyhow because the staff has instructions not to to serve alcohol to them
).