Pet airport lounge hates

[AisleSeat]

Just yesterday I overheard that Bunnings is about to buy Amazon.

Surely it's the other way around?

 

[sostopher]

People who are rude to staff. Especially in the dom QPs and J lounges (F people seem to be better behaved in my experience). I can't stand anyone being rude to someone who is there doing their job.

 

[Justinf]

Noise and hygeine.
Business types and their phone conversations.Why can't you step outside or go to a designated phone area.But a tick for the Kangaroos-supposedly arrogant rugby league types but the time we shared a lounge in BKK with them any time one got a phonecall or wanted to make one they went outside.
And the MEL J lounge on Saturday combined both my dislikes.A reasonably empty lounge but lots of young children running around screaming and then going to the food and handling everything.Because of that I went to the Spice bar.What is it with the name Spice.None of it in the beef brisket and noodle soup I had.

I guess the difference is that rugby league players playign for Australia don't want their conversations heard, whereas Mr Businessman wants everyone to hear it.

 

[JKH]

Ban ALL unreasonable noise - make it like a library was once upon a time. Only permit discreet conversation.
Have a dedicated phone conversation area(s).
Implement random trapdoors into crocodile pits for those “walking talkers” on their phones. These might also be helpful for running amok, unsupervised children (or their parents).
No watching videos etc from personal devices without headphones.

 

[jsf]

So, I was in a lounge the other day and had a conference call on speakerphone, then after that I face timed my mother. Before you get all up in arms, I went into a "phone booth" to make these calls, which were reasonably well sound proofed. Lounges should invest in a few such rooms, I find it annoying that it is easier to find a private spot in a terminal than in most lounges to make such calls.

F Lounge has something like that.

 

[JohnK]

When all the single seats were taken and there's one 4 seaters left. I'd take the 4 seater but anyone is welcome to share my table.

Try when you walk into a relatively empty lounge and the 4 seaters are taken by single travellers with one or more bags on the other seats. That's not an inviting look.

 

[get me outta here]

I blurted out once to a kid, "you touch it you eat it". His mother came and agreed. I smiled sweetly.

It’s in the Melb J lounge I usually see this kind of behaviour too with kids. That’s where I told a kid off for picking up all the rolls and putting them back. Although I did tell someone just recently to use tongs, just can’t rememebr where.

 

[JohnK]

Another thing that annoys me in airport lounges is people handling food from the buffet with their hands...

As manners are not compulsory, you'd need someone full-time to police the buffet.

Oh some of the manners I've witnessed in lounges over the years.

I remember last year at Mercure Gold Coast breakfast a lady (hahaha) hotel guest was walking around inspecting the breakfast offerings and she decided to grab a slice of bread with her fingers where tongs are clearly visible. Extremely rude.

P.S. When I do grab a slice of bread I use the tongs to grab a slice of bread from the middle or the back of the pile. No guarantee that someone hasn't touched it but makes me feel better.

 

[get me outta here]

People who go into the bathroom and come out not having had time to wash their hands. And, judging from the way they are still 'adjusting their clothing,' I'd say they weren't just looking in the mirror to check their teeth for parsley.

 

[Pushka]

People who go into the bathroom and come out not having had time to wash their hands. And, judging from the way they are still 'adjusting their clothing,' I'd say they weren't just looking in the mirror to check their teeth for parsley.

Well, I rated that funny, but really it’s quite vomit worthy. I try not to touch the door knobs in loos for this very reason. On cruise ships there is sometimes a large button to open the door that you can press with your foot or elbow. Failing that there will be a paper towel holder and a bin at the door to use that instead of bare hands. There are people standing at the entrance to buffets ready to squirt soap onto your hands and sometimes there’s a hand wash sink at the entrance. Cruiselines cannot afford to let gastro illnesses run rampant.

 

[Ekka]

Bit harsh wanting to ban @JohnK from lounges

This just happened to me the other week in the ADL QP. Sitting somewhere nice and quiet. Another group pull up at the next lot of seats and insist on having a loud conversation. They weren't even seppos!

Very good Dave, but hard to believe.

 

[UP4014]

P.S. When I do grab a slice of bread I use the tongs to grab a slice of bread from the middle or the back of the pile. No guarantee that someone hasn't touched it but makes me feel better.

I do the same, no guarantee but certainly far less likely someone has touched the middle. I do this with nearly everything I pick up in the lounges sometimes even the newspaper.

 

[lydea]

Agree! Although I think people sometimes just don’t realise how much the sound carries. We were in the AY lounge at HEL one late evening when it was very quiet..except for the one person watching videos on their laptop with no earphones. I saw several people directing glaring looks her way but she was oblivious....until I went over and politely asked if she’d mind turning the volume down. She was startled but happy to comply...I think she just had no idea !
Andona

I find that catching an offender's eye and bringing a finger to my lips, followed by a mouthed 'OK/thanks' usually works, though not always for long...

 

[Ekka]

lol

No I specifically mean when someone in a lounge, seems to belive they are more entitled to be in there than someone else who *ironically* is also in there.

But some members ARE very much are more entitled than others, and it is precisely this over-entitlement which causes most of the din, the over-crowding and the resentment.

Lounge type Child age Number of children
Qantas owned and operated lounge
0 to 3 years Complimentary access
4 to 17 years Complimentary access for up to two children
If you are travelling with more than two children to a Qantas owned and operated lounge, the Qantas lounge manager will try to accommodate them, subject to reviewing the space available.

I believe I am more entitled to be there, as a Gold/Platinum FF or QC member than the two (or more - could be six or so) children.

SeatBackForward seems to think otherwise. May I remind him or her that it costs a great deal to become a Gold or greater member of QFF or a member of the QC? Why cannot I, whose children are grown-up, and number two only, bring them into the QC?

So yes, SeatBackForward, I am more entitled to be in a Qantas Club than the second - or sixth child - of another member.

Mind you, SeatBackForward, I make no noise other than that The Australian makes as pages are turned and my creaking bones propel me upright for the lengthy walk to the aircraft.

 

[Ekka]

Ha! At the risk of sending this thread off-topic, would you ban dogs/animals (other than guide dogs, of course) from airport lounges?

Some countries actually allow this, including the one you mentioned.

Yes, as was always the case until recently.

 

[Daver6]

As someone else mentioned, lack of power points. QF is especially terrible at this. This is something that is well within the lounge's control (as opposed to poor human behaviour).

 

[PineappleSkip]

Lounges where they refill the bain marie -all day- instead of replacing it. Epic hygiene fail! [Looks sternly in the direction of DEL T3]

cheers skip

 

[VZ1_60]

Ban ALL unreasonable noise - make it like a library was once upon a time. Only permit discreet conversation.
Have a dedicated phone conversation area(s).
Implement random trapdoors into crocodile pits for those “walking talkers” on their phones. These might also be helpful for running amok, unsupervised children (or their parents).
No watching videos etc from personal devices without headphones.

absolutely nailed it !! cheers John

 

[MoolahQ]

Agreed the loud mobile calls are quite exasperating but I have rarely used any lounge since the FIFO boom because a lounge was no longer a quiet haven, it was more like a shopping mall during school holidays.

Lounges were stacked with orange and yellow vested FIFO people obviously dressed to go straight down the mine as soon as they disembarked. However, there is food and drinks in the lounge so why not, just help yourself, take as much as you can, it's all yours and provided especially for tradies only.

Manners were indescribable and the general atmosphere of a lounge was reduced to that of a public bar.

Has it improved?

 

[robinsparkles]

The food being touched by bare hands and the extreme waste of food I see on tables after people have left. why so greedy!