Originally Posted by
djsflynn
I don't find the Qsuite too narrow, but I do find it's much better to be in one of the suites where the seat is away from the door (eg directly at the window) rather than snug up against the door and partition, as the latter makes me feel a bit cramped, and if working away on the laptop, one's elbows can often hit the wall.
Agree that Vantage XL and Super Diamond are very good on their own but no massive leap from Cirrus. Cirrus has sort of hit the 'sweet spot' for Cathay, so no sense changing unless it's to something which can be considered as markedly better.
Personally, I do value the Cirrus seat significantly above the Vantage XL and Super Diamond, especially for the Cirrus on the 359/351. Both alternatives are more cramped at locations where you want to extend (knee space when sleeping, Vantage XL elbow space, for example) and visually very cluttered.
The Cirrus seat (in CX outlay) needs some improvements though:
- Some styling fresh-up.
- The seat bottom padding is really bad. Compare that with the Vantage XL air cushion as used by MH: Super.
- The table is simply to small to have an off-tray meal presentation: Things start to fall off.
- The connecting space to the seat behind at the window side would need some reengineering to avoid things going backwards.
- The 359/351 remote is still a little clumsy to use in combination with the main screen, insufficient "separation" of what is being shown.
- The "touch" on both remote and main screen might work a little better.
Forget about the "door" hype. Keep the overall relaxed visual appearance of the CX Cirrus version.
The hyped QSuites: Nice, though cramped. It's nice to have a "private" cabin, though would you like to have a private cabin smaller than the size of an office cubicle for 10-15 hours ? Apart from it being only "semi-private", ie not private at all, just blocking your own view. And such a big screen, just in front of your nose, I would not rate that comfortable either, more intrusive, so to say (like the pre-359/351 style screen on the Cirrus).