I'm confused, one person says the buffet is far away but you say it is close? Multiple websites say these are great seats, and others say not so good.
Minnesota_Nice you may be interested....I can see my seats in this picture here, yours are kind of hard to see but I can see one of them. Anyway, it appears there is a curtain with a dividing wall between our cabin and the galley/bathrooms/buffet. Ours are the last two on the right of the photo behind first class. I would imagine this should help to some degree with the light issue but not the noise. I've never smelled the lavratories in business class before even when I was quite close. Maybe because they don't get as much use as coach? Hopefully AF will be the same but CO had the cleaniest bathrooms! I must say that I do like the look of this cabin, hopefully it doesn't disappoint. I'll take the other poster's advice and see if we can get 3A&B.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-F...-ER/1179166/L/