Gulf Air’s Falcon Gold Business Lounge: Bahrain International Airport

Rating: 80/100

Welcoming:8/10

Menu Choices: 9/10

Food Presentation: 8/10

Food Temperature: 8/10

Food Taste: 17/20

Service: 7/10

Ambiance/Music: 7/10

Architecture/Interior: 8/10

Air Quality: 8/10

Total: 80/100

Located on the first floor of Bahrain International Airport is the Falcon Lounge. You’ll definitely have the chance to experience it while traveling onboard Gulf Air. Reach a counter where a smiling hostess walks you to the lounge. A long and perfectly managed space is just the place if you’re looking to spend some soothing and relaxing times at an airport.

The airport currently has three discrete lounges for premium passengers. Located on an upper level accessed by escalators from the departures area at Gate 15 and overlooking the main apron, the Gulf Air First and Business Class lounge offers an exclusive concept of waiter service, a separate family room and electronic video games room for children as well as full business facilities.Follow the lit corridor then take a left to the main area of the lounge where a rich buffet with cold and hot items is prepared to serve you. To the right, another buffet, smaller than the first one, offers a couple of sandwiches as well as soft drinks.I loved the space with its perfectly matching cool colors making this lounge a great getaway from the busy airport. Grey, blue and white under a low ceiling where sections are divide by curtains of steel balls.

A panoramic view of aircraft taking off and landing provides a diverting backdrop to the sleek minimalist Arabian style incorporated throughout the lounge. Elevated seating areas offer comfort and privacy to guests, while plasma screens hanging from the ceiling provide news and entertainment.The place’s different sections and details:

Showers
A kids playing area away from the calm lounge
A Microsoft X-Box lounge
Two buffets
A smoking lounge with no odor whatsoever
Individual face to face chairs perfect for meetings and discussions
Saloons with relaxing fluffy sofas around square tables are cozy and separated one another with metallic pending curtains
A newspaper stand
The Lavazza coffee bar
A business station with flat screen computers

The dinner food choices: (Leaving to Muscat at 9pm)

Two kinds of salads
A cheese platter
Vegetable and meat sandwiches
Cookies and cakes
A large selection of sweets, fruit salad, brownies
A colorful display of sandwiches
A salad bar of 14 different choices
Grilled Zucchini salad
Marinated rocket salad
Lentil soup
Cream of potato with hot salmon flake
Chicken nuggets
Stuffed vegetable kebbeh
Veggie chow mein
Garden green veggie pie
Lamb navarin
Chicken provencial
White rice
A large choice of good wine

The breakfast food choices: (Leaving to Beirut at 9am)

Vegetable and meat sandwiches
Eggs sandwiches and mini burgers
French cheese
Cookies and cakes
Fruit salad and yogurt
Freshly squeezed juices
Croissant and Danish pastry
Cereals and milk
Arabic sweets
Hummus, moutabal, tabbouleh, olives and vegetables
A selection of bread
The hot section (Hash brown potato, plain omelette, cheese and mushroom omelette, shakshuka, scrambled eggs, chicken sausages, beef sausages, baked beans, foul mdammas, mini chicken burger with mushroom sauce, French toast)

This is a nice lounge combining food, pleasure, fun, relaxation and design. A relaxed space you’ll enjoy spending time in and the best part is that food is not only for display but its also tasty at the same time. Next time you pass by here, you’ll know what to expect.