Originally Posted by
NYC1
Agree with
MichielR and
chris63 . It's all about timing/circumstances. Sleeping on the flight, is my priority #1 and the FAs will bring it whenever you want it. However, the quality of the food onboard is nothing to get too excited about (and has gone downhill over the last 5 years) and is much better in the lounges (usually).
With you on the sleeping - and as someone who prefers slightly warmer cabins, LH F is a fabulous place to sleep. Agreed the food was much better 20 years ago when I first experienced it!
Originally Posted by
worldclubber
Agree with all of the comments on timing as the main factor and the difference of food quality at the lounge vs. in the air.
Try to eat at the lounge for quality reasons if timing makes sense and use food/drink on board as “entertainment“ on routes where maximizing sleep is not a priority. In these cases, focus is on the starters (usually good quality and small in size) rather than on the often underwhelming mains.
Yep - this is precisely my strategy. In theory. Eat a main in the lounge (though the new menu looks less exciting), and maybe a dessert if I'm hungry with a lot of time, and then do the caviar, appetizers, and dessert in the air.
In practice (and to be clear, although i"ll have two LH F round trips this year, this is usually a once in a few years experience for me) I end up needlessly eating too much inbound into FRA, and find myself unable to stomach anything in the lounge, with the hunger only returning on the second flight (think US-FRA-India trips).
SFO-FRA-DEL coming up, and cleared into F on both sectors outbound. Polaris lounge is getting boring food-wise, so I'll probably eat on board for the first sector, try and resist the scrambled eggs (because it's still cool to me, not because they taste special), then have a meal in the lounge before staying awake and snacking all the way into DEL. Where I'll be eating a lot as well, because, what better thing is there to do in DEL?