Currently sitting in the BNE Virgin Lounge waiting fior the 8:00pm flight to SYD. The lounge is very nice but there are less than 10 people in here at the moment. No hot food but the rest of the food is in line with the food in the QF Lounge. Plenty of beer choices and what looks like a nice selection of wines.
I was in the QF lounge less than 30 minutes ago and there were 100's of people in there.
For anyone that is interested you do not need to be flying Virgin Blue to take advantage of this promotion as long as you are QF Gold or Platinum. In fact you do not need to be flying at all on the day as you do not need to provide a boarding pass as proof.
I asked about status matching but the person at reception did not know anything about it.
I was going to try the SYD Virgin Blue lounge last Sunday but when we got to the airport we were offered to be put on an earlier flight, which I gladly accepted, and no time to visit the lounge. Maybe next time.