Sunday, February 07, 2010

The Travellers' Lounge - HK Int'l Airport

On the last trip to Cannes, I took a 1am flight out of HK to London Heathrow but got delayed for another hour til 2am due to the strict control of Heathrow for not accepting aircrafts landing in a much earlier time. In fact, the plane got a few turns for landing at the scheduled time.

1/2. CX informed of such delay and so I went to check in at around 12:30 midnight and I was almost the last one for them to close the counter. What a scene that I didn't see people in the HK Airport.

3. This new Travellers' Lounge just got opened a few days when I tried it. It claimed to be the biggest lounge in the World for holding a space of 15,000 square feet. What a contrast to their old lounge Plaza Premium which is just 2,000 square feet. 4. The food is so so and maybe it's due to the hour they almost close it. I noticed they have a noodle and congee stations but nothing was served and I could see some workers still working on furnishing some details of the decoration.

5/6. Drink station.
7/8. Some hot food but food quality is not much interesting. I understand why CX contracts Peninsula Hotel Catering to run their lounges.

9/10. some nostalgic photos of HK and this one of a CX 747 jet flying like it's in the apartments' jungle shouldn't be a stranger to any of you who were friends to Kai Tak Airport.

11. I need to write to them for where they can get such a sweet (super sweet) grape drink!. 12. The dessert is in line with other food - so so. In conclusion, being big doesn't mean good. The food quality and services are the key to attracting customers.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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