Originally Posted by
SFO_FT
In terms of "flagship", home base lounges, Ethiopian's ADD lounge probably gets the title of worst for Star carriers.
It was a bit over a year ago that I connected through ADD with my wife. On the one hand, I reminded myself "This is Africa; we didn't travel all this way to experience the same things we'd see elsewhere." It was dark, the wifi, as others noted, wasn't working much (if at all). It was part of a row of low "buildings" within the terminal, no different from a low-end strip mall sort of feel. The food and drink were good though.
I doubt I will ever see a *A lounge quite like ADD, but it wasn't going to ruin the day or anything. As I said, it's not home, but we didn't travel to see something just like home.
One of the stranger lounges was at CPT (Cape Town). Just a sectioned-off part of the terminal. Food and drink available, but not any sort of special seating or power, if I recall correctly. Beautiful tall windows showing the runways.