Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
Not for the most part.
To balance it out, the dreadful bits were:
- inability to get into the checkin area until close to your departure time (the gate officials who do your initial cursory and frankly pointless luggage scanning enforce this) so you literally have to lurk outside until you’re closer to when your checkin opens
- the shower in the lounge - what horror! - tiny shower room built around a pillar which made the room even timer and had insufficient space to even put your carry on. I even saw a person changing OUTSIDE the shower room. And the actual shower cubicle itself has grime and slime everywhere, and peeling plastic around the door edges - thoroughly shameful, needs replacement and the whole place need to be cleaned with bleach!
Well, technically speaking, you can actually get into the check-in area long before your departure time. Just show your ticket (or a ticket) and they'll let you in. They don't exactly care, though there isn't quite a lot of things to do inside.
and yeah... avoid the shower, I've never dared step foot into that mess. I've always try to shower beforehand or otherwise when arriving in Hong Kong, because the shower situation in this lounge is really grim, especially with the dark tiling. Even the new PP lounge showers aren't that nice. The only good shower in CGK in my opinion belongs to the Garuda Lounge in T3.