The brand new Dublin Aer Lingus lounge in Terminal 2 is a world away from the old Gold Circle lounge in Terminal 1. A nice large bright contemporary lounge, the only real problem is that it is designed for short haul flights and there is no real hot food, other than a tub of stew. To find the Dublin Aer Lingus Lounge, once through security and passpor ...read more.

The Terminal 1 Dublin Airport DAA Lounge has comfortable seats, snacks and drinks, a business area with computers and wi-fi and a family room with children's play facilities. Indeed, the Dublin Airport DAA Lounge in Terminal 1 does a pretty good job of that most dull of functions - an airport authority lounge. Vastly better than the older lounge, oddly ...read more.

If you ever want to see what airport lounges used to be like, visit the Dublin Airport DAA Lounge in Terminal 2. It's not that the Dublin Airport Authority can't do lounges - they can, just look at the lounge in Terminal 1 - it's just that this drab, depressing, room smacks of the 1970s, even though it was only built a few years ago. Even finding the Du ...read more.

The new Etihad airways lounge at Dublin is a delight. It is by far the best lounge at Dublin airport, beats the incumbent Aer Lingus and DAA into the ground, and it is a rare treat for a small outstation to have its own large lounge, which in some respects is better than the lounge at the Abu Dhabi hub. Even better it has a la carte dining, a full hot t ...read more.