Lounge access at MNL T3

[whughes3]

Does anyone have any experience of lounge access at MNL since the CX lounge there closed recently? The QF website.....

https://www.qantas.com/au/en/qantas-experience/at-the-airport/airport-lounges/all-qantas-airport-lounges/airport-lounge-locations.html/mnl/Manila%20Lounge.html

..is cheerfully advising us to use the PAGSS lounge at T1!!! Yeah, sure....I have sent them a query about this via the website and received the following astonishing response:

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We acknowledge that Qantas flights depart from Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3. However, Qantas does not operate its own dedicated lounge in Manila. Eligible Qantas passengers and Frequent Flyers are directed to the PAGSS Lounge, which is located in Terminal 1, East Concourse, next to Gate 2.
We appreciate that the lounge being located in a different terminal may raise questions, however this remains the designated lounge available for eligible Qantas customers in Manila.

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I have responded with a fairly terse "please explain" but have so far received no response. Meanwhile, does anyone know what is actually happening?

 

[Melburnian1]

The PAGSS lounge is poor, so good on you for not accepting 'it. I thought there was also a PAGSS lounge in T3, not just in T1.

 

[whughes3]

The PAGSS lounge is poor, so good on you for not accepting 'it. I thought there was also a PAGSS lounge in T3, not just in T1

The chief problem here is that it physically impossible to access a T 1 lounge when departing from T3!!! There was a quite reasonable PAGSS lounge at T3 but it has been closed, supposedly for renovation, for over 12 months and a rather ordinary substitute lounge has replaced it.

 

[kpro]

The PAGSS lounge is poor, so good on you for not accepting 'it. I thought there was also a PAGSS lounge in T3, not just in T1.

It does look like there's one in T3, as well as T1 so QF probably just got the terminal wrong on their website. PAGSS

 

[whughes3]

It does look like there's one in T3, as well as T1 so QF probably just got the terminal wrong on their website. PAGSS

Refer to my post #3.