Are one-off paid Qantas Club entires worth it?

[AustraliaPoochie]

Don't know Daver6 but they probably have a covert way of knowing.
Remember when the story came up of a QFF member dying and they ie QFF shut the deceased members account down.
Points gone just like that.

 

[mannej]

Don't know Daver6 but they probably have a covert way of knowing.
Remember when the story came up of a QFF member dying and they ie QFF shut the deceased members account down.
Points gone just like that.

These stories tend to come up due to a disclosure to QF from one source or another (I.e family member or employer).

 

[Daver6]

Don't know Daver6 but they probably have a covert way of knowing.
Remember when the story came up of a QFF member dying and they ie QFF shut the deceased members account down.
Points gone just like that.

Death notices of maybe from the births, deaths and marriages registry?

Other than being dobbed in (and again, where is the proof that money has changed hands?) I still can't see it. It is perfectly ok to transfer your passes to another person. In fact, Qantas encourages it. Qantas can't check your bank records.

 

[harvyk]

Back when I used to pay for it, I would consider that I got value after 10 visits. It worked out roughly $50 a visit. (My best year of flying I got that down to $10 a visit, pity short haul red-e-deals don't give much in the way of SC's).

Of course not all visits are equal, I would not consider $50 for a glass of OJ, a coffee and some pancakes to be good value, then again $50 to be knocking back drink after drink, and a full sit down meal at HKG lounge was pretty good value, especially when I had say 3 or 4 hours to kill, so together the two evened each other out, even with a small number.

So would I spend $39 on a single visit, knowing that there where no other visits to other QP's / JLounges to help even things out? No.

For $39 you can get quite a reasonable dinner down stairs, and still have change left over, even after paying airport prices. The SYD QP is not going to be quiet on a Friday night, it's going to be very ordinary food options (I typically don't eat in QP's), and how many drinks can you knock back in an hour and still be allowed onto the plane?

Unless you want to see what it's like upstairs (and I totally understand, I remember standing outside those glass doors wondering how the other half fly), save your money.

 

[burmans]

How could Qantas ever prove that the passes were sold as opposed to given away?

You might be surprised by how many people admit to doing this in quite public places, e.g. social media. Not much to prove in that case!

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Not only the food lead me to pay to join QP as a paying member in the first place, but also the (a) ambience of it, and also (b) the idea that there was less people in there (to a small extent), in the sense that people had to be willing to either pay for entry, as in the OP's situation, or pay QF a lot over time flying J or F, or getting "somehow" an entry.
(OT) Same as what I plan to do for the VA's the lounge, later on this year as VA PS, I plan to buy the lounge annual membership and start having my paws in both camps.
Can't afford to fly J/F all the time, but at the least, I can have a small amount of luxury before a flight.
Granted that a lounge to most people is not real luxury, its an extravagance.

 

[Rnwillia]

Depends on how often one flies. If a couple makes 3 flights a year, that's 4 lounge visits per return flight so 3 x 4 = 12 lounge accesses which equates to near $480. Seems to me then that a membership would be better value and if going overseas, even better value.

 

[ajd]

I'd happily pay for entry to a QF international lounge, but domestically, using the Qantas Club would imply that I try to turn up at the airport more than 35 minutes before departure...

Though perhaps it's worthwhile at a connecting airport if I've got a layover of say, 2 hours, which isn't long enough to go into the city and back. Though in that case, if your flight has a J cabin you also have to compare against the points cost of a J upgrade, which gets you more than just lounge access...

 

[keilya]

Would want to be after noon and for longer than an hour. Or if accompanying someone who did have access.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Had an offer to pay for entry to the ADL QP before my latest QF Aust dom flight at 5pm last Fri.
Nice lounge that one, but my offer email didn't list a price!
So didn't take it up.