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Good to hear from someone who had tried the apartments. How much is the recline really? Is there any foot-rest or leg support that comes up?
Thinking of trying the apartments once, but will require an extra hop for me as I usually fly out of SFO.
It's really not that significant, and there's no additional footrest, one can however rest one's feet on the "bed". It probably reclines about twice as much as an economy seat if I recall correctly, it was one of the first things I noticed. The seat is also very angular and I found it slightly uncomfortable, probably because I like to lounge and curl up a bit, as others on the EY forum have said they don't find it to be uncomfortable. This is purely subjective. Overall it's still an amazing product, I flew it twice, however on BOM-AUH-BOM so did not get to have a full night's sleep to fully review it.
One thing which could be a plus to some is that one does feel rather isolated. Even though one doesn't interact with other pax in F with EK one can see the other suites and the shape of the cabin, with EY I barely took note of other pax existing and the design makes one not really take note of where in the aircraft one is (I don't want to say disoriented, but the word neutral describes the product pretty well). If it's just a minor detour give it a shot, especially on a long leg. I flew to AUH for the weekend purely to try it out.