I was surprised to be told at PVG that starting today, SQ is now inviting premium passengers and *G passengers to use the Air China lounge, which is lounge 71.
First impression was that this lounge is spacious and newish. But that good feeling was dashed once I learned they do not serve their hot food buffet outside of limited meal times. For example, I got to the lounge at 1:15pm (my flight was the 2:30pm flight), but the buffet was already empty. I saw a sign seeing lunch is not served past 1pm. The only food offerings were tiny sandwiches the size of a matchbox (seriously) and some small cake bits and a bread station with toast and butter.
In my opinion, this is ridiculous. Travellers often travel at odd times and need to eat at odd times. The old lounge was not anything special, but at least a hungry traveller could count on a few hot items, whatever time we happen to arrive at the lounge, to tide us over till we get on the plane. Also, an SQ lounge without hot food offerings is just out of the norm.
This leads me to ask, the next time I am in PVG, what *G lounges are better to visit?
First impression was that this lounge is spacious and newish. But that good feeling was dashed once I learned they do not serve their hot food buffet outside of limited meal times. For example, I got to the lounge at 1:15pm (my flight was the 2:30pm flight), but the buffet was already empty. I saw a sign seeing lunch is not served past 1pm. The only food offerings were tiny sandwiches the size of a matchbox (seriously) and some small cake bits and a bread station with toast and butter.
In my opinion, this is ridiculous. Travellers often travel at odd times and need to eat at odd times. The old lounge was not anything special, but at least a hungry traveller could count on a few hot items, whatever time we happen to arrive at the lounge, to tide us over till we get on the plane. Also, an SQ lounge without hot food offerings is just out of the norm.
This leads me to ask, the next time I am in PVG, what *G lounges are better to visit?
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