QF SYD International First Lounge Evening Access?
Jul 30, 2023, 4:35 pm
#16
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: used to be PER, now it's nowhere/eveywhere
Programs: QFF NB, AA GLD
Posts: 3,498
I will be flying MEL-PER on this in early September, looking forward (already!) to trying out the QF F lounge in MEL
ETA: Mwenenzi beat me to it
Last edited by pandaperth; Jul 30, 2023 at 4:37 pm Reason: Mwenenzi beat me to it :))
Jul 30, 2023, 7:25 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 1,866
No worries, I made it more for the masses, from the recent posts it seems like QF F lounges (calamari, pavlova etc) are considered out of the world food and the massage function so great that people will wake up hours before am early morning 9.30am flight (6am to 7am meaning what a 5am wake up?) or come to the airport for hours before for a flight to get hope of a massage that can be described as average at best. I would not arrive any earlier than I need to for a flight out of SYD. But it seems it seems to be that people want hours here - hey it is SYD outside! , and my experience does not justify it, Sorry that we try to make that clear on your thread as it drifted.
Look, I am someone who does get to the lounge hours before a 9.30am flight, but that's more because I live on Sydney's northside and I want to avoid the peak-hour traffic jam, so I'll typically be in an Uber by 6am, SYD around 6.30am, lounge by 6.45am-7am, and then I can enjoy a relaxed breakfast and get a little work done. Sometimes I'll follow that same pattern for a late morning or early arvo flight and book one of the office suites to serve as 'my' office for the morning, again to plough through some work, so it'll like a normal day for me. But I couldn't imagine rocking up at like 6-7am for a 3-4pm flight and just sitting around eating, drinking, binge-viewing on the laptop or whatever.
PS and FWIW, these days I almost get a perverse pleasure from having minimal F Lounge time LOL. A while back I had a number of must-do-at-the-office things queue up, so I got into the lounge maybe 45m before the flight began boarding and you known what? It was still just the same as a 90m experience in my books, sans massage which is hit-and-miss for booking at the best of times. Relax in the dining room, enjoy breakfast and then off to the gate.
Last edited by djsflynn; Jul 31, 2023 at 2:59 am