Review: Singapore Airlines Business Class Lounge Melbourne Airport

Lucky, you're on a roll. Keep it up!

+1 to Abidjan.

By the way, I have a question. Recently I spent 100,000 amex points for a round trip flight on Qatar (in economy, that's fortunate and unfortunate). Then I was forced to book another timed flight so I canceled the ticket. Unfortunately I lost 100,000 Amex Points. That's a negative for me. For my wife however, this is a positive. That's because they gave me $1,000 instead. Apparently they cannot refund points. Anyone else experience this? Did anyone know about this?

By the way, I have over a million Amex points. So in theory I could book 10 tickets and cancel them all and get $10,000?

Christmas tree ?!

@Icarus - the flights were in December prior to Xmas.

I used this lounge about a year ago, it's all very 'meh.' But what can you expect from an outstation when the business class lounge at Changi is also pretty meh.

@JB

You might be able to do that, but that strikes me as pretty poor value for your points. $1000 for 100k miles gives you 1 cent per mile. Typical valuation for Amex points is over 2 cents per mile. (That’s for the value of redemptions and not cash, however, so I might be willing to take less than 2 cents per mile if I could trade them for cash. But 1 cent per mile is too little.)

Back in December I flew SQ Business class (for the first time on SQ) BKK-SIN-AMS. All round a very underwhelming experience.
Lounge at BKK is "meh" but benefit of the doubt given it`s an outstation. Triple "meh" for the lounge at Changi, SQ`s hub which is supposed to be their flagship lounge but which feels more like a cramp, dark "waiting area" rather then a premium lounge.
Seats on A330 BKK-SIN are vintage (in every way), food is mediocre and service rushed (for no reason).
Seats on A350 SIN-AMS are V-shaped meaning your feet get stuck at the end of the V. "Book the cook" food was great.
SQ seems to be thriving on its image and marketing of 15 years ago. I would not recommend to pay any premium to fly SQ vs other carriers.

Average and altogether underwhelming considering the much vaunted reputation of SQ. But having tried both Silver Kris Lounges at Changi and the ones at Taipei, Heathrow and Hong Kong, this doesn't surprise me. SQ's lounges just aren't good.

I used the Silver Kris Lounge in Sydney in late November, and they had a coffee machine, on my most recent visit on May 2 - they had a barista, the lounge dragon - who remembers me, made a special mention of it when we checked in, and escorted us to place our order before we sat. So hopefully Melbourne has done the same. My husbands cuppacino came with a SQ emblem in chocolate on the top