During my whirlwind Aeroplan adventure, I had a roughly five hour layover at Bahrain Airport (BAH). I was arriving in Gulf Air’s A321LR business class from Rome around 7PM, and departing in Gulf Air’s 787-9 business class for Singapore around 12AM.
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"I’d say the only objectively bad thing about the lounge is the shower setup and the lack of a dedicated nap or rest area"
- It's hard to see in without a higher resolution photo, but in your "dead end" entrance area photo, it looks to me as if there is a door to a rest area. Or am I mistaken?
Besides that, I agree with you that the lounge looks rather uninspired. Although the food selection looks quite nice to me.
Also curious what is behind the door that looks like a resting area.
Also, the food selection seems quite decent. Sure, if you were expecting a la carte dining, I can understand why you would be disappointed by a buffet, but I still feel like this is quite decent for a business class lounge of an airline with 33 planes...
I've been to this lounge about a dozen time by now as an expat in the ME, will leave my opinion here in comparision with Peral Lounge (mainly for biz class passengers of TK, EY, EK, BA etc.)
In terms of food quality, bar, lightings (atmospehre) and others, GF new biz lounge is uncomparable to Pearl lounge which exceeds in most of aspetcs. Neverthelous I high apprecaite quite genune, friendly, kind hospitality of receptionsts and lounge staff at Gulf Lounge (in comparision, Pearl lounge receptionist girls are sometimes bordertline rude and unfriendly) in most of time.
As for Shower facilities, I don't know why but whenever I visit Pearl lounge, shower faciltiies are alwasy in maintenacne (now I even doubt it's most likely intentional), which is a big turn-off to me(female passenger). I used GF shower facitlies a couple of times since its opening, surely it's not the ones like EY in AUH or TK in IST lounge shower facilties, but well... better than nothing. For female passenger, please take your own "shampoo and conditioner" (conditioner is not available/given) if you plan to take a shower in this lounge.
Lastly, one day I had a connection at BAH (arriving by GF Biz but departing by TK biz, layover about 9h) and I was accepted to netierhr GF lounge or nor Pearl lougnes as Pearl lounge only accepts 3 hours before departure (a very strick policy). So if you have a long layover in BAH, please consider that.
How to avail the lounge?? If you are traveling to bahrain and we will stay 20hours before the next flight using gulf air economy?