What a horrible place. It's a pity I can't award minus 5 star. The floors were dirty and what…read morepasses for 'food' is hidden in a corner to the left as you go in the door.
We found a few bagged up bread rolls in a fridge. Inside the bagged rolls was sliced hard boiled egg, cottage cheese and thinly sliced translucent radish. If you don't like cottage cheese you'll go hungry.
I thought momentarily that Poland had returned to 1980's communist rule given the lousy food choices and the shortage of any hot food. Instead you have individually wrapped industrially made croissants in a foil bag along with other assorted factory food in foil bags like rice cakes - yes you read it right - rice cakes. Think Lidl.
If you like bananas you'll be alright in here as they were aplenty. There's also peanuts, chocolates and chocolate wafers.
The fridges also had soft drinks including fruit juices and one choice of beer.
We got there at 8:35pm and we paid €60 essentially for 2 drinks from the bar. We had to self serve our own mixers.
We were told post-payment that it was only open until 9pm.
We were told that we could only consume food inside, so chilled to 4 degrees bread rolls, barely filled with the cheapest ingredients, had to be eaten at their chilled temperature, so on the plus side they had no flavour at all.
The leads for phone charging were lying unfixed on the ground under tables so you had to bend down and rummage to pick up a lead to plug in your phone.
The hostess was barely pleasant and she seemed not up know that she's in the hospitality industry. I think she has erred by looking up the meaning of hostility instead and applied those techniques to guests who make pay days.
In short, it's a truly lousy place to visit and really only beneficial if you want to pay a very high price for alcohol which you will have to down quickly.
That said it's poorly signposted - we couldn't find one signpost to it as we walked through the well overpriced, duty - paid profit hungry shops.
We had to ask directions from staff and without their help we would not have found it at all.
It's important to understand that this 21st century airport has an unhelpful policy of only allowing passengers through to airside 2 hours before a flight.
Even if you check-in at the desk immediately at the 2 hour point it takes at least 20 minutes to get through the awful security check staff, in this glitzy, but genuinely awful airport; an airport that makes Belfast International Airport look good.
As Belfast International has just been rightly voted the very worst airport in the UK - by a long way - that's saying something.
So having to be at your departure gate 30 minutes before take off with 10 minutes to find this awful place, pay a high fee with checking in at the 2 hour point really leaves a maximum 50 minutes in the lounge. Realistically if your flight is on time you'll have 30 minutes at best.
Really, we've travelled all over the world over 45 years, visited 64 countries and this place made me cross, and that's rare indeed - so take good advice and save your money, and don't go anywhere near this truly grim place as it's really not worth it in any way at all.
