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- Well, welcome to the Al
Mourjan Business Class Lounge
at Doha Hamad International Airport.
Absolutely fantastic facility.
I will give you a tour around
and you can make up your own mind.
Meanwhile, Diet Coke 'cause
it's still quite early.
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One of the most amazing
things about this lounge
is the water feature behind me.
I don't know if you can
see the drops of water,
they're actually coming from
beneath rather from the top.
It does sometimes make it look as though
the water's dropping from the ceiling.
Still along with the
staircase, the two floors,
the fantastic food, it's quite a facility.
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And away from that main area where
the water feature is
there's also quieter areas
such as this one where you
can actually just sit down
and get away from the high ceilings.
And actually if there
is some natural light
have a look out of the window as well.
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There are plenty of
screens around the lounge
to make sure that you
don't miss your flight.
But do bear in mind that they don't
make flight announcements, 'cause they'd
be doing them every couple
of seconds I suppose.
What you can do is look
at the screens on the wall
but they also have these devices which
are kind of like massive iPads.
Then you can do a search
facility or just simply
look which one is your flight.
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Always find a bit of peace and quiet
if you look for it.
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The lounge has pretty much everything.
We're in the games room,
there's more than one games room.
You can see they've got
table football, various
electronic games and then next
door is a business center.
So, you can always dump the kids in here
and actually get some work done next door.
Just in case you think it's all about
high-end leisure, here's
the business center.
They've got everything
here as well as computers
they've also got printers
that can be used.
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Okay, so that's the tour of the lounge.
Now, I don't wanna give
anyone a false impression
I've been through this
lounge many many times
and it is one of the best
lounges I think in the world,
certainly best business
class lounges in the world.
But it does get very very busy.
Right now it's sort of
between half past 10
and 11 o/clock on a Thursday morning,
and I have never ever seen it this empty.
The reason is of course that
there are banks of flights
that go out of here and this
is between one of those banks.
So, that's why I could
walk around with a camera.
Normally I wouldn't have even attempted it
because there's just too
many passengers in here.
It never gets uncomfortably crowded,
but certainly for things like the showers,
there's certainly a
waiting list for those.
I remember one time I had to wait
30 minutes, 40 minutes for a shower.
Not a disaster if you've got
a two or three hour layover.
And also for the food and beverage,
you know there can be, not queues
but certainly it's a busy time.
But then that's because
it's a growing airline
and it's nice to be able to show you
this lounge when it's
empty and you can see
it all cleaned and sparkling ready
for the next bank of passengers.
I hope you found it
useful, and we'll one day
get in the first class lounge.
