MEL lounge dragons...
Mar 15, 2009, 4:47 am
#17
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Mar 15, 2009, 6:30 am
#18
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I haven't encountered any problems with domestic lounge staff either, although I wouldn't sing their praises particularly like I would do about the Flounge staff.
Mar 15, 2009, 3:08 pm
#19
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Mar 15, 2009, 3:44 pm
#20
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Same! They've been absolutely lovely to me (I'm talking about Flounge staff here - I can't praise them enough).
I haven't encountered any problems with domestic lounge staff either, although I wouldn't sing their praises particularly like I would do about the Flounge staff.
I haven't encountered any problems with domestic lounge staff either, although I wouldn't sing their praises particularly like I would do about the Flounge staff.
Mar 15, 2009, 5:50 pm
#21
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[QUOTE=drewbles;11411094]You must have been lucky. I'm never rude or arrogant to them. I'll always walk up with a smile and say "Hi Can I have a xxxx please?" and it's usually met with silence or a grunt at best.
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Well there is your problem, who in their right mind orders a XXXX?
Personally, I have only ever been in the PER QP once or twice with the beer on, usually on a Sunday arvo and never had a problem. Most of my flights out of PER are am so I guess I am not the best judge.
ADL & SYD are the most accomodating in all areas IMO.
As far as MEL goes, certainly since the J lounge popped up the service experience for us lowly scum has diminished significantly, including the bar line snaking out the door with service slower than Subi oval at a Dockers game. So bad I have taken to drinking wine there! A couple of weeks back a lady asked for some more cheese and was responded to like she asked for the rights to the food monkeys first born child while I had the audacity to request a towel for a shower on that 42 degree day after spending the morning on the floor of a steel mill monitoring production, covered in oil and grease and smelling like a coal miner was asked if I didnt think it was a little early for that. I leant in and said "I am filthy, would you want to sit next to me for 5 hours?"
BNE front counter gatekeepers have always been a problem in my experience, I have never had a good experience in that lounge, always over crowded as well.
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Well there is your problem, who in their right mind orders a XXXX?
Personally, I have only ever been in the PER QP once or twice with the beer on, usually on a Sunday arvo and never had a problem. Most of my flights out of PER are am so I guess I am not the best judge.
ADL & SYD are the most accomodating in all areas IMO.
As far as MEL goes, certainly since the J lounge popped up the service experience for us lowly scum has diminished significantly, including the bar line snaking out the door with service slower than Subi oval at a Dockers game. So bad I have taken to drinking wine there! A couple of weeks back a lady asked for some more cheese and was responded to like she asked for the rights to the food monkeys first born child while I had the audacity to request a towel for a shower on that 42 degree day after spending the morning on the floor of a steel mill monitoring production, covered in oil and grease and smelling like a coal miner was asked if I didnt think it was a little early for that. I leant in and said "I am filthy, would you want to sit next to me for 5 hours?"
BNE front counter gatekeepers have always been a problem in my experience, I have never had a good experience in that lounge, always over crowded as well.
Mar 15, 2009, 11:41 pm
#25
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As per drewbles post, I have had similar treatment at times .. which I could only attribute to being so young (although I'm hitting my mid 20's in 2 weeks
), a few years ago.
Mar 15, 2009, 11:48 pm
#26
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Mar 15, 2009, 11:50 pm
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Mar 16, 2009, 1:10 am
#28
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Me advising that between me - QPPS, and colleague - QPWP, we had 3 guests being told I could only have one, but my colleague could have 2, 2 guests who were fighting with the quickcheck daleks then refusing them because we had gone through despite having pointed out the guests over at the daleks, and having to go over the whole debacle again and the second row dragon waiting just inside the entrance, past the first desk, to do it all again...
Brings up an interesting point ... if a QP Member is able to guest someone into QP, but is travelling in J, can they guest someone into the QCJ lounge? IIRC: J has no guesting rights
It was not that busy, there just seemed to be a lot of bored female and male dragons harassing people, IMHO, YMMV....
I was merely making an observation given I have accessed the other lounges recently and found MEL to be bad - and hoping that QF lurk here, they might just be interested.
That is all...
I was merely making an observation given I have accessed the other lounges recently and found MEL to be bad - and hoping that QF lurk here, they might just be interested.
That is all...
BD
Mar 16, 2009, 1:30 am
#29
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As QP, you are only allowed access if you are travelling QF,JQ,BA that day. Without the BP, the "Dragon" wouldn't know that you were entitled to access. They certainly wouldn't know that you were travelling in J.
PS in itself offers no access rights. QPWP is a bit of a misnomer: once SG is earned, QP is suspended. From the T&Cs "Guests in Australian and New Zealand domestic Qantas Club lounges must be accompanied by the Member." Trying to find in the T&Cs: "Guests in Australian and New Zealand domestic Qantas Club lounges may be abandoned by the Member whilst fighting with the Quickcheck Dalek" but am failing miserably....
Brings up an interesting point ... if a QP Member is able to guest someone into QP, but is travelling in J, can they guest someone into the QCJ lounge? IIRC: J has no guesting rights
It was probably not that busy because the "Dragons" were - from everything I can see - being sticklers for the rules.....ahhhhhhh.....maybe now I see the gist of this post......
BD
PS in itself offers no access rights. QPWP is a bit of a misnomer: once SG is earned, QP is suspended. From the T&Cs "Guests in Australian and New Zealand domestic Qantas Club lounges must be accompanied by the Member." Trying to find in the T&Cs: "Guests in Australian and New Zealand domestic Qantas Club lounges may be abandoned by the Member whilst fighting with the Quickcheck Dalek" but am failing miserably....
Brings up an interesting point ... if a QP Member is able to guest someone into QP, but is travelling in J, can they guest someone into the QCJ lounge? IIRC: J has no guesting rights
It was probably not that busy because the "Dragons" were - from everything I can see - being sticklers for the rules.....ahhhhhhh.....maybe now I see the gist of this post......
BD
Carry on luggage only allows lounge check-in, regardless of class.
QP membership and traveling, allows a guest.
WP membership allows two guests.
Between me (QPPS) and WP we had three guests.
Being given a whole raft of 'attitude' by lounge dragons - I cannot find in the 'rules'...
As I said, my experience, my perception, others have different experiences and perceptions - all power to them.
Mar 16, 2009, 2:14 am
#30
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No. A QP member can only guest someone into the QP. If travelling J and accessing the J lounge, then this access is only based on the fact the person is travelling in J. People travelling in J are entitled to lounge access only for themselves.