Thanks all, my message was merely to clarify that the first lounge access was indeed the HIA lounge and not Al Safwa. (Both are referred to as first class lounges but just have different access criteria).

Duly clarified.

I have experienced the QR lounge at LHR flying J on MH, and really liked it.
Later this month I fly SIN-DOH-AMS in J with 7 hrs in DOH. Thinking of paying up for time in Al Safwa. Didn’t hear much good about the HIA lounges...

Globalist

but if you are in j you can use al Mourjan. And yes the qr lhr lounge is great as is their cdg one.

well that reminds me, the one thing I do dislike when flying in QR Y (and there status makes zero difference) is how slow the disembarking canbeif you are in Y and the plane uses a bus gate. Qr uses separate buses for j and y which is good but the y bus will sometimes be really slow to start operating. Three of my 4 recent flights used bus gates including one at DOH. For the DOH one, the crew chose to complete the disembarkation of a J passenger needing assistance before releasing Y pax but her assistance was not there yet. Ultimately, we ended up disembarking almost 35 minutes after landing and with waiting for pax and long drive to the terminal, made it out of the bus more than 50 minutes after landing while the flight was already 30 minutes late. Yesterday at an outstation, we started disembarking in Y nearly 15 minutes after landing because a Y pax could not decide if she wanted to go on the J bus or wait for the rest of her family who were towards the back of (the largely empty but still) Y cabin.

So yes, ‘soon’ is a very relative concept at least upon disembarking.

meanwhile flight 4 went well, full row to myself again and meal orders taken first ;without much need) though crew not nearly as warm as on the previous flight but still a very good experience.

My understanding is that “soon” roughly refers to an unspecified point of time in the future, likely within the next 5 years, whereas “not soon” means that it is never going to happen.

Agree, I think Globalist would be well advised to make use of Al Mourjan at zero cost, rather than shelling out QAR 600 unnecessarily !

Al Mourjan can be busy at times - perhaps busier than it once was - but it covers a very large area (and I’ve never failed to find a decent spot). The overall standard remains way above the vast majority of business class lounges.