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I don’t have any Row 4 experience, but in the J lounge it was the constant loud ‘phone calls and the boots on the seats to ensure nobody sat near them in the busy lounge wot got up my nose.

Indeed! As an example from over a decade ago, the QF domestic J lounge at ... y'know I've forgotten whether it was MEL or BNE, but as per QF domestic J normality there wasn't really any food or drink to get excited about ... HOWEVER it was probably the best view you could get over the tarmac...

Given what dairyfloss quoted & Mrsfefe experienced, it may need clarification. The 4hrs prior limit is probably for when you turn-up at the airport for your the first flight, because connection times in between flights of over 4 hours are very normal and I'd be Extremely Grumpy if I had an 8hr...

That actually sounds a little scary … does make you wonder if someone Problematic maybe lives there, someone you wouldn’t have wanted to meet?

It’s been a few years, but last time I was there with not-work there were some interesting lower-volume options too. Main terminal dunnies were less queuey & no dirtier. :) I kinda think, even as a not-so-frequent flyer, I do have a similar sentiment to @RooFlyer. My introduction to lounges...

Not always … as a very infrequent flyer, I can name two where it was better to flee the lounge … the QF lounge in Hobart, and whatever CI was using at Gatwick in 2018 (Plaza Premium Lounge I think it was). Of course as @kpc says, if you don’t have access then you don’t know what you’re not...

Wankel Rotary Engine?

Given that they're mass-produced to meet a low price, I doubt they can be all that super-secure. I think they're a bit like a club-lock on a car, easy to get past & only used to hopefully make the thief target something that's even easier.

Pretty much. But when considering Melbourne, don’t forget how the devil makes those deals appear so appealing at the outset …

You’re discounting the fact that time is observed differently in hell, and even though your watch might say 3 minutes that time actually travels like 15-odd years of repeatedly listening to Nic Cage doing a solo radio-play production of Sense And Sensibility.

Something-something choosing to do anything via Melbourne to access a particular product-or-service sings really high praises for that product-or-service something-something-something!!

I can't normally do the "hand luggage only" thing ... my most recent trip OS was June in the UK from Brighton up to north of Inverness, I don't think I could've gotten by (short of spending every 3rd day of my holiday washing) without a range of summer & (Sydney-spec) winter clothes!

I guess a Dash-8 has a random number of rows & a random number of seats per row, who knows, the people building them obviously just hammered & glued random bits of aluminium together.

I don’t need to work-up that amount of sheer unbridled rage in other locations!!! 😅

The ‘plane is normally a very good indicator towards how the seats’ll be arranged. Occasionally you can cop a replacement aircraft & be stymied!

^ I’m now worried about who’s driving the bus, if the bus drivers post like an illiterate 14yo …

I have to say yes, but maybe for slightly different reasons than those who’re in the air all the time and know that pretty soon they’ll have sampled all the aircraft operated locally to their airport-of-origin … but as an example, I had us on Jetstar SYD-MEL-HBA and return instead of the quicker...

Ask someone locally where to eat … even if that’s the concierge & I’m in Italy so the answer was likely bought before I asked it, it’s still worked out with a MUCH greater success-rate than sussing it out myself.

It’s the same with anything really … those shootings in the Lindt shop in Sydney, suddenly half the population was an expert on how to stop armed criminals with hostages. Israel - everyone’s an expert. Even that Fischer-Price Titanic-viewing sub.