Originally Posted by Saltire74

I’m afraid you’ll be in for some disappointment here. QR moved to T2 in February and with that, loss of all access to T1. The OW page for lounge access has not been updated and there is only one lounge in T2 which is small and cramped with no shower facilities. One of the issues here is that there is an EK departure not too far ahead of the QR departure and the lounge will also accept payment and other various credit cards with access so gets very busy. I cannot see any way for you to enter T1 to get lounge access for a shower then get to T2 as you will have had to go through immigration therefore technically left the country

T2 itself is nothing but a very large tent and to get from T1 you would need to get a taxi. There are two security checks to go through before immigration and getting into the departure lounge. Limited duty free shopping. Limited food and beverage outlets (and no smoking facilities). For security, they have one immediately on entering the building and even if both lanes are operating, large queues can build up outside to get in. When I went through at the second checkpoint, they only had one lane open. It’s shoes off, liquids out, if more than one laptop or iPad, all in to separate trays. Not the fastest process.

All boarding is via bus and will generally board zone 1 pax first. There was a separate business pax bus but that arrived after the zone 1 bus so a long queue up the stairs to board.

Why QR chose to or agreed to move to T2 I do not know. It doesn’t allow for the best start to a QR journey