Our flight was departing Paris at 9:55PM. We had to check out of our hotel at 4PM and decided to head to the airport at around 5PM, and arrived around 6PM. Air Seychelles departs from Terminal 2. We had already checked in online, so didn’t need to stop by the check-in desk.
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Nothing at all. I think we can safely assume that Susan is a bigot, and that the only prayer rooms which she is comfortable viewing images of are Christian prayer rooms (aka churches).
Unrelated, but Dow Jones is reporting Apple & Goldman Sachs to issue a joint credit card.
Goldman has recently talked about shifting into retail lending so this isn't entirely shocking, although I'm guessing it'll be of the boring Starbucks/Uber kind of cards instead of something worth acquiring. We will see.
It seems the a la carte menu items are kept in a warmer and plated instead of cooked to order. What sparkling brand was served?
"I really want to fly Air Madagascar next… they have just one A340!"
I pretty sure this A340 was previously part of the Air France fleet.
It may not have been refurbished and still have the old NEV seats in business class, the same as the ones in the AF A 380.
To be checked again of course.
@ Bob -- That's my understanding as well. Hard product doesn't look good at all, but curious about the soft product.
>Surely we can all agree there’s a difference in quality between a cappuccino from one of these machines and one that’s made by a person?
Depends upon the person making the cappuccino...
Lucky, have you seen this? Emirates CEO, Sheikh Ahmed, isn't too interested in merging with Etihad.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/transport/396168-emirates-chief-downplays-etihad-airways-merger-talk
Unrelated topic: Emirates records profit increase of 124%, 2% of the staff resigned, pilot shortage continues:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/transport/396211-people-love-to-work-for-emirates-says-sheikh-ahmed
I mean, it is rather insensitive to take a picture inside a room which is dedicated to worship. The room isnt there to be photographed. People go there to worship. The room has nothing of noteworthy status which is worth taking a picture of, so why take a picture?
@ Susan -- Aren't churches dedicated to worship, and don't people take pictures in churches all the time for all kinds of reasons? A bit confused...
It's one thing if I were disturbing someone, but there was no one in there. And the purpose is pretty clear -- I'm showing the features of the lounge, including a prayer room, which someone might appreciate if they do want to worship.
Lucky don’t feed the troll. Utterly hilarious that someone demands respect for a piece of commercial airport space. Its not a church it’s a space for those who wish to pray. Susan please have some respect for others by not being pathetic. Anywhere can be used for prayer, should we therefore blanket ban photos globally?
Traditional places of worship are ornate and decorative by their very nature. This is a plain prayer room, devoted purrly for worship. Someone may have wanted to use it and then noticed you snooping around with a camera...
You could have taken a picture of the Prayer Room sign, or a picture of the door - or simply mentioned in the review that the lounge has a prayer room.
I remember one time you took a picture within a prayer space on an airline, which seemed even more distasteful what with the clientele on board.
It smacks of 'heyyy this looks different, i should take a pic of this because you don't see it every day'.
@ Susan -- I was literally the only guest in the lounge at the time I took the picture (it's one of the reasons I arrive to lounges early, so I can take pictures without disturbing people). Is it okay now?
Having justifiably sent the beef skewers back, did you order a replacement dish?
There are 2 posts above which are about unrelated things (the posters acknowledges such); why don't you simply delete these? There is no censorship dilemma there, just keeping things on topic.
Well if they make the food from the dine in menu bad enough, then no one will miss that menu when they get rid of it!
@Susan: Your objections to Lucky taking a photo of an empty prayer room in an empty lounge do not make any rational sense. There is no rule, convention, norm or guidance against taking a photo of a non-denominational prayer space- as others have mentioned, it is literally a commercial space set aside for prayer purposes. Even if it were an actual consecrated church/temple/synagogue/mosque there are also no such norms against taking photos in these spaces. You might have a point if there was someone actually in the prayer room... but Lucky has always been pretty sensitive and good about not taking photos of people without their permission.
Thanks for this review Lucky. It looks very similar to their lounge in Dublin, which I also found to be oddly large for an outstation with little traffic. Lovely, though, with excellent service as well. I wish they'd get their own lounge in Toronto as the Plaza Premium international lounge is no great shakes, but given their financial straits and frequency, that seems unlikely.
@susan LOL please, go wash some dishes and stop criticising Lucky over something so small as a picture. If youre THIS concerned go petition to churches stop allowing people and tourists to take pictures inside them.
Before that lounge was opened, some 2 years ago, Etihad used the AA lounge which was very badly located in the A satellite under gates 37-39, especially when one had to go back to gates 40-50, quite a walk. The AA lounge was OK but not grand as far as food went. During Etihad flights periods, EY had their own attendants passing on much better food on trays, targeting of course EY passengers when they were identifiable but pretty much serving whomever approached them or extended their plate. It was a fun sport for us "just AA" passengers.
There was nothing wrong with Ben taking a picture of the prayer room, even if god is fake. I don't see why anyone would be "concerned."
The lounge doesn't seem great, but nice considering they aren't huge at Roissy. I find the AA lounge to be pretty decent for an AA out station.
In the Etihad lounge now abcvagree withbtjd review comments ... however in this day and age getting 1mb/1mb wifi is very ordinary. We travelled for 22 days through France Italy and Switzerland abc the Etihad lounge had by far the slowest internet. We stayed at s farm 5kms outside of Tirano and it had 5mb/5mb so yo get1mb in yhebusiness class lounge of a major international airport is really ordinary.