Having opened in 2021, the Virgin Australia Adelaide Lounge is one of the newer lounges in the Virgin lounge network. Whilst being in operation for four years or so, I recently had my first visit to Adelaide since then. This gave me my first opportunity to visit the lounge.
Lounge Details
Lounge Location
The lounge is located near gates 14 and 15. In order to get there, turn left after completing domestic security checks. From there, you can simply follow the signs through the terminal. You’ll see the lounge on the left as you approach gate 14/15.
Opening Hours
The Virgin Australia Adelaide lounge opens seven days a week. It opens one hour before the first departure and closes after the last flight of the day commences boarding.
Access
A range of passengers are eligible to access the Virgin Australia Adelaide Lounge.
- By Ticket Class
- Passengers flying business class with Virgin Australia or Singapore Airlines
- Frequent Flyer Status
- Velocity Frequent Flyers with Gold, Platinum, Platinum Plus or Beyond status.
- Gold-equivalent members (and above) of partner airlines (Air Canada, Qatar, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic)
- Lounge membership:
- Members of Virgin Australia Lounges.
- Single Entry Lounge Pass
- Velocity Frequent Flyer Silver members can use one of their annual passes
- Entry passes from an eligible credit card
- Single Entry passes are available for purchase
- Credit Cards
- American Express Platinum, Business and Centurion cardholders, before a Virgin Australia flight.
Around the Lounge
On entering the lounge, it is clear that this lounge has had different design ideas to others in the network. As I recall, it was intended to become a model which would be rolled out to other lounges. It certainly didn’t have the purple hues of the others. It was more white overall, with areas of wood panelling and a splash of red here and there.
My initial impression is that it is basically a large room divided into a number of smaller areas. Those areas looked more set up for socialising or consuming food and beverage. There were just a few workstation areas around.
Seating Areas
As mentioned, the lounge is divided into a number of areas. This includes the seating area, and there are a range of seating options.
When you first walk in, there is a small seating area on the right.
As you walk around the lounge, you will see a range of seating styles.
Catering
Food
I arrived at the lounge around the time they were starting the changeover from breakfast to lunch. So, basically, putting the scrambled eggs away and getting the curries out. Still, there were some leftovers from breakfast around. Aside from the scrambled eggs, there was some cut fresh fruit. The following picture also shows the pancake machine.
For the all-day dining options, there were wraps, an Asian noodle salad and a Lentil and Saffron Saled.
There was also an option of a Thai Green Chicken Curry – I guess it has some sort of Thai influence on it.
Finally, there the toastie machine. Basically, you can make yourself a tomato and cheese toastie. Somewhere along the way Virgin lost the protein option – pretty sure there used to be ham available.
Beverages
The rather elegantly designed bar area is divided into two main sections. First up, is the ‘Wake-Up’ section where you are able to get a barista made coffee.
Next to the ‘Wake-Up’ section is the ‘Wind-Down’ part of the bar. By Wind-Down they mean the area where you can get alcoholic beverages, such as beer and wine. As I was there in the morning, the bar was not open, so I had to stick with the coffee.
Other Amenities
Service Desks
Back near the entrance to the lounge, we find some of the other facilities in the lounge. First off, there’s a pair of Service Desks on the left of the lounge as you enter. While it wasn’t staffed at the time I was there, I did rather like the retro-style signage behind the desks.
Toilets
The Male and Female Toilets are found near the entrance to the lounge. The signage here is in keeping with the other signage around the lounge.
The bathroom areas were clean, and appeared to have everything you would expect.
Final Words
Overall, I found the lounge to be quite a pleasant space. It is open and airy. It may also help that it wasn’t in any sense busy.
Basically, it had pretty much everything you would want in a domestic lounge. While its design is different to the other Virgin Lounges, the food options were quite familiar.
Definitely a good spot top spend some time waiting for a flight.
