New PMR lounge?
Apr 25, 2017, 4:38 am
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Programs: NZ Airpoints GE, Qantas Platinum, Accor Diamond, Hilton Diamond
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New PMR lounge?
Arriving on a late CHC-PMR flight last week I noticed the lights were on in the old international departure area. All lit up was our new Koru night club style lounge; the pink and turquoise look we are now familiar with. .
SO any ideas when we will leave the Bach for the nightclub? I am on the early flight tomorrow but I am sure we would have been alerted. However, I am happy to be surprised.
SO any ideas when we will leave the Bach for the nightclub? I am on the early flight tomorrow but I am sure we would have been alerted. However, I am happy to be surprised.
Apr 26, 2017, 1:52 am
#2
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: New Zealand
Programs: Air NZ *E
Posts: 142
My previous understanding was that a new lounge was quite some way away - i.e., the justification for the 'interim' refurb. Surprising that we may be that close to a brand new one, but great if so.
Apr 30, 2017, 2:17 am
#5
Join Date: Feb 2007
Programs: NZ Koru
Posts: 6,411
Its an JQ Regional Port, hence the rapid upgraded. Then followed by the replacement lounge.
May 3, 2017, 12:41 am
#8
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Programs: Air New Zealand Elite (*A G), Qantas Silver, Alitalia Freccia Alata
Posts: 90
May 3, 2017, 1:57 am
#9
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 366
Personally I wouldn't choose them as the delays are too frequent, low frequency of flights means cancelled flights often have no alternative on the same day etc... When a $19 flight is cancelled and there is a $19 refund this is little consolation if one has to pay $259 for an Air NZ flight at the last minute. JQ is also much stricter with their lesser cabin baggage allowance and far less flexible than NZ. And as a wise person once said the most valuable thing one has is one's time.
May 4, 2017, 4:53 pm
#10
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Big NZ logo now illuminate from within the lounge. It looks like the entrance will be at the opposite end of the terminal from check in - and on the ground floor leading up to a first floor lounge. Quite a classy product for a regional port.
May 4, 2017, 5:37 pm
#11
Join Date: Nov 2012
Programs: NZ GE, QF
Posts: 388
May 23, 2017, 5:19 pm
#12
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Join Date: Dec 2013
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Our new lounge opens today. I was through on Monday but it was still the old bach-style lounge, but will give it a brief try on Friday, and again on Monday morning.
May 23, 2017, 7:48 pm
#13
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Auckland
Programs: NZ Elite Partner/Silver (in own right), PR Classic, QF Bronze, UA Member, VA Red
Posts: 1,551
Might be needed for all those Massey Uni staff with Koru memberships :-0
