Just completed my first ever EK First (thanks for all the suggestions) from DUB-AKL via MEL on the way out and BNE on the way back. No DP on the ground in DUB (plenty elsewhere), food pretty good across all sectors apart from trans-Tasman and the wine excellent. And the shower was great: not just a gimmick but genuinely refreshing when nearing the end of the journey and not an arrivals lounge in sight.

Only bad points were the trans-Tasman sectors where the cabin crew seemed uninterested and the food was relatively poor, flakey IFE controllers, the rubbish showers in DXB concourse B Flounge, the parents who did nothing about their toddler screaming for attention all the way from DXB-DUB and the idiot handlers at DXB who managed to get two bins stuck in the hold, causing an hour's delay which meant a sprint to T1 on landing at DUB to grab our final BA sector.

Overall pretty good if not quite at SQ/CX levels for service and food.

BC