The Virgin Lounge
Until a week ago I had never flown with Virgin in my life. Now, I am a convert.
I have been sitting in “The Lounge” at Adelaide airport for the past four hours, consuming unlimited beer, food and internet access, all for the princely sum of $30. Given that a stale, mouldy sandwich costs $10 at your average airport, I’d say that this is a pretty good deal.
Sure, you don’t get complimentary processed cardboard with Cacciatore sauce on Virgin flights, but the $5 beef and ham sandwich combo I had on the way down here was actually legally classifiable as food!
So take the $100 bucks you save from your next Qantas flight, spend $30 at The Lounge before departure, $8 for food and a cuppa in the air, and you’re still better off at the other end. Go Virgin.
Footnote: unfortunately, noone paid me to write this review. I badgered the girl behind the bar, but apparently I’m not quite famous enough to receive special “VIP” service. Either that or she’s having it off with the cleaner.
February 8, 2007 4:15 pm 2 Comments
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By Joel
, February 9, 2007 @ 8:29 am
Nice stu!
By Sarah
, February 9, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Correction: didn’t we discover last week that the Qantas Specials were better then Virgin? Even though the free beer is on weekdays it is still cheaper then virgin on the weekend.
But then again you don’t get the lounge which was pretty good.