After a long day of traveling, to sit in a comfy spot to relax before running to the next flight has become one of the few respites during this last few years of travel. However, on occasion the lounges are lacking.
The visit to the lounge of MUC (Munich) airport is perhaps one of those let downs. Only Marseilles-Provence Airport is worse from my limited experience (the have no Air France lounge at all, go figure). Upstairs over looking Terminal 1, the lounge is small and to put it mildly a bit tatty. The microfiber chairs were thread bare and a bit run down. In my college days at the Fraternity they would have been deemed second floor chairs; first floor chairs having been made pretty after retrieval from the neighboring Sorority houses curb or dumpster.
The air in the lounge was stifled and stale, maybe to get us ready for the canned air of the plane; an unfortunate situation as the highly audible AC was apparently not doing anything. Lighting in the lounge was low to the point of annoying, but that could have been an effort to keep us from notcing the condition of the chairs and ruling them 3rd floor material (the last stop for former Sorority/Fraternity house furniture before a fiery plummet from the 3rd floor window-much fun).
However, we were able to find the Bier and Sprite to fashion a Radler (or a Panache or Pils-Limon depending on who you ask). The cool beverage doing wonders for our outlook as we tap out this review. That task completed using the Blogger Android app as there is no wireless here. Did I forget to mention that? See, Bier can repair many things, it even nearly allowed me to write off one of the lounges many disappointments.
Visit Munich and the surrounding area, hike the Alps, and drop by the lovely Biergartens and have some Leberkase. Relax as much as you can. Keep your expectations of any pampering in the lounge low, that way you can't be disappointed. Low expectations and Bier mend much.
Tschuss! Schon Flug.
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