Originally Posted by
bbar2000
I was a bit surprised at this, lounge dragon told me it is the same worldwide, well sorry honey that just isn’t so. Well it is not so in Miami / Hong Kong / Sydney / Singapore / Tokyo / Helsinki etc etc.
She was almost half right. It's the norm on routes where there's a sleeper service (mainly US east coast). As you say, not the same elsewhere, though not always such a full food selection elsewhere either. Haven't been in EWR lounge for a couple of years, is the dining area you tried to enter still in the middle of the lounge? If so, could easily understand why you would stroll in there, it didn't look very separate last time I was there, unlike the heavily guarded buffet restaurant in JFK which I frequent more regularly...