New Adelaide Qantas Club & Business Lounge

[RooFlyer]

The idea of a seperate DYKWIA lounge must be a winner regardless?

The more DYKWIA the better <and while we are at it, where's my CL invitation?>

 

[SYD]

The more DYKWIA the better <and while we are at it, where's my CL invitation?>

Coming with the HBA CL!

 

[Aeolus]

The more DYKWIA the better <and while we are at it, where's my CL invitation?>

If you know where to look, there is actually a separate DYKWIA section in the J lounge for celeb or wannabes

 

[Daver6]

Just reviewed the thread since lounge unveiling.

* The pie floater doesn't

* The frog cakes aren't

* The Torbrek has taken off

* The FUIC has maintained " ... its nothing."

* The kitchener bun is stuck in Khartoum and the berliners are still in the bunker

* Maggie Beer stuff - do they post nutritional figures. Check the sugar levels next time you see a jar.

Still worthy of lounge envy!

When is HBA QP getting scallop pies?

 

[RooFlyer]

When is HBA QP getting scallop pies?

Oh! That’ll be the signature dish of the new HBA QP. Along with pork rolls.

 

[DC3]

When is HBA QP getting scallop pies?

Probably some time after the HBA Business Lounge opens.

 

[serfty]

Jeez, I hope the new Adelaide business lounge maintains what looks like a high standard.
Having been through the Brisbane business lounge more times than is healthy in the past few months, they have really dropped the ball there.
Admittedly only been through at breakfast and lunch time but the food offering is embarrassing.
A pot of warm baked beans and a make-it-yourself sandwich with 1 toaster for breakfast. No pancakes, no fruit juicer (other than the apple and orange at the bar), no eggs, no bacon, just baked beans.
Lunch is worse, the breakfast baked beans replaced with "soup". This being a salted water base with some vegetables floating in it and "flatbreads", cold pizza looking things with some lumps of pumpkin and cheese, and the make-it-yourself" sandwich selection with "ham" and "beef" slices the only meat choices. The ham is a sliced block of manufactured meat, the one you get from Woolies for $9.99/kg and the "beef" slices are so tough that you need a chainsaw to cut your toast.
Maybe they're going for the "lowest cost lounge" award but seriously, I thought the Admirals Club was bad. This is a BUSINESS lounge for goodness sake.

I was there for three hours to 2:30pm today.

In addition to that there were some wraps with crumbed fish, taco sauce and coleslaw. Make your own enchiladas.

No sighn of noodle(?) bar in operation.

 

[serfty]

 

[anat0l]

Visited the ADL J Lounge for the first time today since the refurbished lounge opened last weekish.

I like the space. It definitely feels a lot more welcoming and comforting compared to the old lounge (then again, when the old lounge opened, we kinda said the same thing). The greater inclusion of plant life in the lounge makes it feel less dull.

Food was cauliflower soup, DIY fish tacos (which is white wraps, crumbed fish nuggets, creamy coleslaw and tomato salsa, not the pico de gallo suggested by the printed menu), chicken pasta salad, coconut and chocolate cakes, assorted crudities with hummus (must say, the vegetables looked very fresh), cheeseboard (including muscatels and quince) and all the regular fixins for a toastie and crackers of all sorts.

As mentioned, the cooking station isn't up and running yet, but looking at the cooking equipment it appears to be best set up for pasta or noodles, and prepared-in-the-pan dishes.


Bar looks impressive and there appears to be a nice array of well appointed reds (especially) and whites.


There is definitely a lot of lounge seating, i.e. literally a lounge seat, encouraging groups to sit or individuals with appropriate space in between them. There are a couple of seating sections that appear to be "inside" pockets that provide the most privacy (one of them appears to have a curtain that can be drawn to provide even more of a semblance of privacy).

Admittedly, I would be curious to see how the lounge copes when there are the most flights departing, especially FIFO heavy in/out times and when flights are delayed.


Showers are good, with some oddities. The tile used in the shower rooms makes it naturally quite dark. The shower itself has both handheld shower and overhead shower modes, but the mode selector was placed very high up. I'm 175cm and I was just able to stretch to flip the tap-switch to change the output. Water pressure was more than adequate.

The tap at the vanity basin uses a sensor under the spout, but I think it must be quite sensitive or prone to getting covered by residual water easily. When I entered the shower room, it kept spurting out water in short spurts. When I tried to quickly "wipe off" the tap using a tissue, it stopped doing so. I think this would occur because many people might touch the bottom of the spout when using it.

 

[ole nimeton]

Breakfast. Standard scrambled eggs, sausage and baked beans for hot options.

Eggs, bacon and mushrooms today plus all the usual continental options. Pretty decent spread.

Nice refurb to the space given it always seemed like it was built for separate business and Qantas club spaces anyway. There is a lot of bar seating which will probably help at particularly busy times though slightly annoying there isn’t really a tv on the pillars near bar/high table area (like the old lounge) for those who want to watch footy etc.

New public kitchen area still doesn’t seem to be used for much apart from overflow storage of pre-cut sandwich bar items in the fridge.

Self serve soft drink cans are a nice touch - much better than coughpy pre-mix.

Not sure about the choice of lighter coloured carpet in some areas - can already see the stains and grot.

Overall, pretty decent effort.