Had my first lounge experience at Charleston Friday. This lounge just opened a few weeks ago. I feel like maybe we missed seeing parts of it, because we didn’t see the cocoon chairs or notice the quiet area or showers, but then again, we did not visit the rest rooms there. I feel like the main advantage we found was that it was far less frenetic than sitting in the terminals....well, except for those two guys who had very loud, very long business calls on their cells.
Although the articles I read said that alcohol would be available from a free standing cart because the bar isn’t finished yet, when we arrived there was a sign that alcohol was not available because the lounge does not have their liquor license yet. There were a couple of infused waters and a coffe machine that made various types of coffees, such as lattes. There were maybe three types of sandwiches, fruit, a green salad bar, and three other types of salad, along with vegetable soup. Oh, and chocolate chip cookies, a small candy bar in a separate location, and some seriously yummy teeny tiny brownies.
I don’t know if this is the norm for lounges, but I felt rather like a glutton because the plates were small, so in order to get a decent amount of food, I had to go up several times to get new plates. I noticed that others were doing the same. I felt rather bad for the lady who came around constantly collecting people’s used dishes. She got a workout! Not to mention that the place probably had to use more water to clean all the dishes.
I’d say to make a normal sized brownie would have taken 6-8 of the small brownie pieces, and the sandwiches were about one eighth of normal sandwich size.
Supposedly there were 50 something seats, but it seemed smaller than that. But, then again, I may have missed a section because as soon as we found two seats together, by daughter and I grabbed them. Eventually seating will be expanded to 80 something, as they are building another section.
Oh, and I overheard a conversation three women nearby me were having. One woman was explaining to the other two how she got access to the lounge from her credit card, and how she got free flights every year because she puts $50,000 spend on her Merrill Lynch card. I SO wanted to butt in and tell her she could earn so much more with that spend every year, but of course I didn’t.
Although the articles I read said that alcohol would be available from a free standing cart because the bar isn’t finished yet, when we arrived there was a sign that alcohol was not available because the lounge does not have their liquor license yet. There were a couple of infused waters and a coffe machine that made various types of coffees, such as lattes. There were maybe three types of sandwiches, fruit, a green salad bar, and three other types of salad, along with vegetable soup. Oh, and chocolate chip cookies, a small candy bar in a separate location, and some seriously yummy teeny tiny brownies.
I don’t know if this is the norm for lounges, but I felt rather like a glutton because the plates were small, so in order to get a decent amount of food, I had to go up several times to get new plates. I noticed that others were doing the same. I felt rather bad for the lady who came around constantly collecting people’s used dishes. She got a workout! Not to mention that the place probably had to use more water to clean all the dishes.
I’d say to make a normal sized brownie would have taken 6-8 of the small brownie pieces, and the sandwiches were about one eighth of normal sandwich size.
Supposedly there were 50 something seats, but it seemed smaller than that. But, then again, I may have missed a section because as soon as we found two seats together, by daughter and I grabbed them. Eventually seating will be expanded to 80 something, as they are building another section.
Oh, and I overheard a conversation three women nearby me were having. One woman was explaining to the other two how she got access to the lounge from her credit card, and how she got free flights every year because she puts $50,000 spend on her Merrill Lynch card. I SO wanted to butt in and tell her she could earn so much more with that spend every year, but of course I didn’t.