We are finally on our way to our next adventure in Africa! After our obligatory 1+ hour trip to O’Hare, we boarded our Qatar Airways flight to Doha. Our full routing is Chicago-Doha-Johannesburg-Livingstone.
On this trip we’re flying in the Qatar Airways QSuites. They are a lovely Business Class suite that comes furnished with a door for privacy. It’s not nearly as spacious as the Etihad Airways Apartment that we flew on our last trip, but it’s also Business Class versus First Class.
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Flight time is about 13 hours for this leg and we’ll be served dinner and breakfast.
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Our candlelit dinner began with a cocktail and warm nuts.
I opted for the selection of snacks which wound up being different than I imagined. I was thinking cocktail snacks and it really was more of an appetizer tray.
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This means I skipped the soup and the appetizers and went directly to my main, for which I selected the salmon.
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We finished up with a cheesecake for dessert. Totally couldn’t finish it!
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By the time dinner was done, it was time to have the flight attendant make up our beds for (hopefully) a few hours of sleep. In the end we got about 5 solid hours which was followed by breakfast.
So now we’re in the glamorous Qatar Airways Al Safwa Lounge. That’s the restaurant behind the fountain.
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The lounge has private rooms with showers, and you can stay in them for up to 6 hours so that everyone gets a turn.
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Although it looks like we’re the only people here in the lounge tonight. We had a little nosh in the restaurant.
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The bar was open but serving only mocktails since it is Ramadan right now.
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The lounge is gorgeous, we’ll be back here on our way home. Loved this waterfall wall.
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We’re here for about 9 hours as we await our next flight, which will take us to Johannesburg!
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Food and accommodations looks great! You two know how to travel!
Hooray! Have fun!!!
Hooray! Have fun!!!
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