QFWP/OWE access to Hong Kong Oneworld lounges with family

[Sukina]

Hi all
Does anyone have experience accessing the Hong Kong Oneworld lounges with their family? QF WP travelling with partner and two children aged 3 years and 6 years, with a 3 hour early morning transit (0500 - 0800) between a CX and JAL flight. QF lounge doesn’t open until 0730, and the CX lounges list entry limited to one guest, with children being counted as a guest!
I’d appreciate your feedback if anyone was able to successfully take their family into CX HKG lounges!
Thank you!

 

[GoldCanyon340]

You *might* get some leeway with CX, doesn't hurt to ask. If you transit at the western end of the terminal (W1) then pop into The Pier lounges near gate 63. I've rarely seen children in Pier F which indicates it's visited by solo travellers, people without children or lounge angels who count children as guests.

 

[Franky]

You *might* get some leeway with CX, doesn't hurt to ask. If you transit at the western end of the terminal (W1) then pop into The Pier lounges near gate 63. I've rarely seen children in Pier F which indicates it's visited by solo travellers, people without children or lounge angels who count children as guests.

Funnily enough, we were there most of the day last Friday, and for the majority of the day, things were quite quiet. There were two couples whilst we were in the dining room, one with two children (one about a year old who just loved making a screech every now and again) and the other couple with a young boy around 4 (A Goddam couple and the bloke wore his baseball hat at the table - ggrrr). There were so few people in the dining area that no-one was bothered by the young bloke who was enjoying himself. We both noticed that the age of almost all of the guests was far younger than we expected to see in the permier lounge - we were expecting to see many obvious business folk, but not so.

 

[Happy Trails]

There's a recent discussion on FT which suggests you'll be out of luck.
Children 3 and over are counted as guests.
Lounge Access and other Lounge FAQs - Page 103 - FlyerTalk Forums

 

[jase05]

When we last visited the Pier F lounge in October there was a lady and her two kids who appeared to be aged in their teens trying to enter the same time as us. The lady was a OWE and I overheard the lounge angel tell her that she would only be able to take one child in due to policy but if she wanted to wait around for a bit the lounge angel would ask a couple of the solo travellers if they would be prepared to guest her other child. I went and had a shower and noticed that they were in the lounge later on so the guesting must have been successful

 

[ermen]

how proactive of the lounge angel

 

[wannabeinvestmentbanker]

I've only seen children in there once in 5 or 6 recent visits come to think of it so maybe it is quite a hard and fast rule.

Funnily enough, we were there most of the day last Friday.... We both noticed that the age of almost all of the guests was far younger than we expected to see in the permier lounge - we were expecting to see many obvious business folk, but not so.

You won't see too many business pax flying on Fridays if it can be avoided as it really starts to eat into your own time. Typically leisure travellers starting the weekend early.

 

[JohnK]

There's a recent discussion on FT which suggests you'll be out of luck.
Children 3 and over are counted as guests.

That'd be really disappointing. Both Miracle BKK and SIN EK lounges welcomed my wife and daughter without even question of age even though daughter is not yet 3.

 

[Haplo]

A few months ago I got turned away at F Pier with 3 of us (little one 4 years old) and I am a Qantas WP.

You can try the J lounge, however I dont know if they enforce the rules as strict as F on children as guest (we were all in J class so had access by default).

 

[FL360]

We were in the same situation few weeks back, and the QF HKG lounge is not opened at such early time, so we head to the CX J Wing lounge, and they count children as guest.

If the CX J lounge is so strict, I assume the F lounge will be the same.

We got in anyway, the lounge was very packed at such early time.