Lounge Experience

This is about the lounge experience I had in Phuket , Auckland , Tahiti and Sydney

Priority Pass Select

With Priority Pass, we can enter to over 1200 airport lounges around the world, saving lots of cost of meals and drinks, and enjoy a comfortable environment while waiting our next flights. 
We got the free Prestige Priority Pass as we have Citibank Prestige card in Hong Kong. There are three membership plans to choose from: Standard – US$99 ($27 per lounge visit) • Standard Plus – $ 249 (10 free lounge visits) • Prestige – $399 (unlimited lounge visits) per year. 
With the priority pass , you can go to the lounge in the airport enjoy free drinks and small dishes, dessert, fruit and a quite environment to take  rest before getting on board.

1) Coral executive Lounge.

It has lounge in Phuket International airport , Chiang Mai International airport, Don Mueang Airport and Udon Thani International airport , it also has lounge in Hong Kong International Airport.

In  Chiang Mai International airport, Don Mueang Airport and Udon Thani International, if you have the priority you can enter the coral executive Lounge.

 In Phuket , I didn’t aware of it is a lounge from   the outside, it only has Coral this word outside the lounge ,Due to curiosity , we found this lounge in Phuket airport and have a relaxing time there.

From the lounge , you can view the aero plane and landing outside the window and the  decoration is mainly sea stars, shells and voyage and it makes people feel comfy.

Opening hours: Daily 06.00 a.m. – 22.00 p.m.

Location : International Departure Hall after immigration and next to gate no.7
Phuket International Airport
Airside - Domestic Departures. The lounge is located next to Gate 6.

Website: http://www.coralphuket.com/

Office : Tel. +66 76 351 703-4
Fax : Tel. +66 76 327 717
Hotline : +66 8 0521 9333
Email : info@coralphuket.com

Conditions: Maximum 3 hour stay - Children under 2 years are admitted free - All children must be accompanied by an adult - Smart casual dress at all times - Complimentary alcoholic drinks limited to beer only.

Additional Information: Alcoholic drinks are subject to payment.

Facilities

Disabled Access

TV

No Smoking

Refreshments

Air Conditioning

Alcohol

Newspapers/Magazines

Flight Information

Digital Card Accepted  

Wi-Fi

Variety of food:

  Sandwich:
   Assorted Canapés ( which has mixed of salad    zsauce and crab meat in the middle of the  sandwich.)

Nut croissant and chocolate croissant

Fried chicken mini burger with lettuce.

Scones

Oat bread( its fully wrapped )

Little pasta
-Mini shrimp cheese pizza.

             

 
  Salad

Shrump tomato , tofu salad.

Fish ball with thai sauce

Plain Rice

Thai dessert:
Coconut milk and Pandan cake
Thai sweet cake.

Tea& Juice

It offers many options of twining tea , like Darjeeling tea ,Earl grey , English Breakfast tea….

Orange Juice.

Fruit:

Banana, orange , apple, green apple.

                                   Soup : 
                                Spicy soup

2) Better Burger ( Not really a lounge from my experience ) 

In Sydney , there are no lounge if you are holding the priority pass but you can get a burger at terminal 1Better Burger, fruit cup, yogurt and some bread.

Location

Airside - Pier B, near Gate 10. International flights only. please note that the restaurant may exceed their seating limit at certain times of the day & access to the restaurant is at their sole discretion.

Please note that the location of it is 5 mins away from the gate 24 to 25, if you need to order a burger before the flight, you need to arrive airport earlier as the burger takes 15 mins to prepare.

Conditions

1. Cardholders can use their lounge visit entitlement to receive AUD$36 off the bill. Each AUD$36 deduction represents a single lounge visit within the Cardholder’s existing lounge visit allocation for which the Cardholder will, where applicable, be charged. E.g. if a Cardholder registers 1 Guest they will receive AUD$72 off their bill which will be charged as 1 Cardholder visit + 1 Guest visit on their account. Only 1 card per visit per Cardholder will be accepted and at point of registration.

Additional Information

2. The AUD$36 is valid for the purchase of any meal and/or drinks. To be eligible, Cardholders must present a valid Card and Boarding Pass with confirmed same-day travel before placing an order. 3. AUD$36 is non-transferable & cannot be exchanged for cash substitute or refund if the final bill is lower than AUD$36 per person. 4. Cardholder is responsible for the balance if total final bill exceeds AUD$36 per person. Any remaining balance cannot be used towards gratuity. 5. Priority Pass and its Affiliates Companies shall not be liable should the offer value be less than Customers lounge visit entitlement. Customers who pay for lounge and guest visits are advised to review program Conditions of Use prior to accessing the offer.

Facilities

Disabled Access

No Smoking

Refreshments

Air Conditioning

Alcohol

Flight Information

Digital Card Accepted

Wi-Fi 

https://www.prioritypass.com/en/lounges/australia/sydney-kingsford-smith/syd7d-benny-burger

 

3)American Express Lounge at Sydney

Opening Hours: 06:00 - 23:00, 7 days a week

Locations:

·         Sydney Airport: Next to Gate 24, International Terminal 1 Departures

·         Melbourne Airport: Melbourne International Airport T2, Satellite Level Departures

 

Free high speed Wifi
Complimentary dining and snacks

Complimentary beverages

Barista service

Device charging point

Comfortable seating;

Bad: The variety of food is not much , not much hot dishes .

Good:  You can get a decent coffee here.

Fruit:

Chopped watermelon , pineapple , Cantaloupe melon

Salad :

Few options of salad is offered.

Yogurt  bar

Strawberrt yogurt, plain yogurt

You can put some oat topping on top of the yogurt.

Croissant , bread.

Egg:
scrambled egg

Muffin

There is a coffee bar there and you can order your coffee , the  cappuccino is quite good.

Orange juice.

The environment is crowded and always full and it offers scrambled egg like the one you tried in HK Lounge , yogurt bar with oat toppings, cookies and different type of coffee.

https://www.americanexpress.com/au/credit-cards/membership/travel/airportlounge/#TakeaTour

4)New Zealand- Auckland Strata Lounge

 

 

It has been just awarded the second best international lounge in the world , behind Dubai at number 1, and number 3 respectively.

This lounge is big and comfortable and it offers the most various food compare to others lounge I have mentioned in this blog and you can get really full there.

Opening hours: 5am to 1am daily
Location: International terminal, after security.
It is in Level 2. After Security Checks, follow signs to 'Premium Lounges'. You can find the lounge on the left at the top of the escalator.
Availability :

The most impressive is the Creamy Chardonnay mushroom/Spinach Potato Gnocchi , it is really delicious and creamy , I love this one most. * GF Options on Request.

Salad: 

Cheese board:

There are many different kind of cheese for you to choose and certainly you should try it with crackers/ biscuits.

Salad bar:

Pumkin red quinoa salad

Roasted Eggplant , fried caper , fried tomato roll ( V)

Panne salad

Chickpeas salad

Pasta :
Lamb penne with tomato sauce
Creamy Chardonnay mushroom/Spinach Potato Gnocchi

Vegetables:

Steamed green and white vegetables Sayakio Wasabi Miso Dressing

Soup:

Miso soup

Red green tomato  Lentil soup  , I would highly recommend this one if you are fans of lentil and tomato .

Tarte:

Asparagus and Cheese Savoury

Breef Savoury

Chocolate cake:

Caramel cake

Raspberry chocolate with nuts

Burger:

Vegetale , hummsand,   eggplant  with hummus  burger (if you are vegan , this is good  and healthy for you)

Dessert:
Fruit Salad

Non Bake Lemon Cheese cake 

Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with Salteed Caramel Sauce(GF)  ( this one is not too sweet and its good)

Chia Seed Pudding w /Kiwifruit and Mint(V)

Chocolate muffin

For the drinks , there are some red wine ,white wine and champagne for customer to choose.

The coffee machine is Rex Royal  , it offers, Express, Café latte , Macchiato , Long Black Cappuccino and Hot chocolate.
The hot chocolate is not very sticky and rich and have a lot of milk, the chocolate is not very strong.

• Fresh range of international hot & cold dishes
• Bar facilities & non-alcoholic refreshments
• Shower facilities with towels & refreshments packs

• Complimentary WiFi & work stations
• Reading material
• Children’s play area

Online bookings must be made at least 24 hours prior to your expected arrival time.