Originally Posted by
daffydude1
1. Does anyone have experience using landside lounges upon arrival in Sydney and did it work?
2. The reason we are looking for landside is I am thinking we will need to pickup baggage. Is this done inside security or outside, as I am guessing I will need to go through customs. Or will I be able to collect bags and customs and then go to lounge?
I have no experience with doing the post-arrival dining, but when I visited Mach2 (one of the landside restaurants) in June they didn't ask me for a boarding pass at all. You'll do immigration -> bags -> dropped landside.