Well, so much for my sense of direction! Fine, I thought. Turns out it was 35 miles up the road and on a toll section! Luckily I managed to find a way to turn round at the next toll barrier without going through. I then just played the dumb Brit when I got back to the original toll and the woman let me through the barrier for free.
Still, with 45 minutes wasted, we turned up at the airport 75 minutes before our take off time, which is fine when you want to just get on the plane, but I was hoping to check out the lounge. Luckily our flight left from a very quiet terminal 1. With the hire care drop off point right outside the terminal and no queues at check in, security or passport control, we were at the lounge entrance in less than 10 minutes.
Access to the lounge is via barcode scanner, under which you wave your boarding pass to confirm access. We tried the door a couple of times and eventually somebody came out of the lounge to check our boarding passes. The chap tapped some things into an iPad, re-scanned our boarding passes and finally they worked. We were in!
As you enter the reception desk is on the right. The first thing you notice are the garish neon lights. Initial impressions are pretty good. Just inside the lounge is a table with lots of jars stocked with sweets and snacks.
To the left there is a magazine rack with some decent magazines, but they are labeled for reading solely within the lounge. On the wall directly opposite the entrance there are some raised seats with partitioned areas for working and plug sockets under the desks.
