Can arrive super-early to AUH (and use F lounge)?
Jun 14, 2019, 2:36 pm
#1
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Can arrive super-early to AUH (and use F lounge)?
I have an upcoming flight in F from AUH->JFK leaving at 9:35am. How early can I arrive? I'm considering as early as 10pm the previous evening, or perhaps 12am-1am on the same day of the flight.
Also, can I access the F lounge that early? I figure I might just eat dinner there, then sleep (ideally I can snatch one of the private rooms for $100), before waking up for breakfast (and perhaps for a workout in the in-lounge gym
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Also, can I access the F lounge that early? I figure I might just eat dinner there, then sleep (ideally I can snatch one of the private rooms for $100), before waking up for breakfast (and perhaps for a workout in the in-lounge gym
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Jun 14, 2019, 9:02 pm
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Ummm, why on Earth would you want to spend that much time in the lounge? To save on accommodation?
There is little to no chance they would let you have a Residence Lounge for 11 hours. You realise there are only couches and no beds in those rooms?
There is little to no chance they would let you have a Residence Lounge for 11 hours. You realise there are only couches and no beds in those rooms?
Jun 14, 2019, 10:01 pm
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)Does anyone know if they'd let me into the airport and the F lounge though?
Jun 22, 2019, 5:56 pm
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Since the flight is at 9:35 am and to the US (having to go through immigration preclearance so have to leave lounge eary), I'd have to get to the airport maybe at 4:30-5am to enjoy the lounge the way I'd want to. I'd prefer to just go to the lounge very early, eat dinner there, take a nap (ideally in one of those VIP rooms), and then enjoy the lounge a little more in the morning instead of paying for a hotel just for a few hrs and struggle to get to the airport really early.
I don't really need it for 11 hours. Just 4 hours would be more than enough for a nap (and couches would be more than enough for that
)Does anyone know if they'd let me into the airport and the F lounge though?
Jun 23, 2019, 12:21 am
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I've gone to the lounge very early before on several occasions i.e. when friends are flying out the same day, but depart at 2200 vs. me leaving at 0230. I've gone and checked in and headed straight to the lounge to have dinner with them to guest them in, or just to go get a workout done early on before dinner and the flight.
I do know that sometimes the gates in the Y checkin lines won't let you through if it's too early but that should not be a concern here.
It's boring as hell in there. No places to work effectively or privately. Food is a bit mhhh these days and the drinks selection is woeful.
This is what those clever people in guest experience think that we want... and apparently are also prepared to pay for it!
I do know that sometimes the gates in the Y checkin lines won't let you through if it's too early but that should not be a concern here.
It's boring as hell in there. No places to work effectively or privately. Food is a bit mhhh these days and the drinks selection is woeful.
This is what those clever people in guest experience think that we want... and apparently are also prepared to pay for it!
Aug 12, 2019, 4:37 am
#6
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Last December, I got the Residence Lounge for 8 hours, no issue, well worth id for 100, not the full Residence experience no butler, but soooooo private.
Aug 12, 2019, 5:27 am
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