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HNL Admirals Club

HNL Admirals Club
February 2018

With 75 minutes before I had to reboard, I headed to the Admirals Club which also doubles as JAL's Sakura Lounge.  

Strange location tucked in between shops and a restaurant.   The lounge itself is pretty basic although the staff was wonderful as always.

After an hour of work with functioning Wifi, I headed back to the gate to reboard.

 

July 2015

After dropping off our rental car, we headed for the international and mainland terminal and PreCheck where we were the only passengers. 

And the HNL Admirals Club which doubles as the JAL Sakura Lounge. Meh lounge but a great staff who checks departing the pax list everyday and sends an email greetings to AC members.

 

At around T-45 we headed out to the gate where boarding was just about to start.

HNL-DFW
AA 8
Ancient 767-300
5:40P-6:20A +1
July 31, 2015
"Dinner" and Continental Breakfast

HNL 763 service is still the old 2-2-2 cabin with narrow angled sleeper seats. Not the best cabin but still better than flying overnight on UA's 2-3-2 777-200.

 

Our classy cabin mate in 4G. 

Once in the air, one of the pilots came back and moved into the pilot rest seats for most of the flight.

And FA's handed out video tablets preloaded with 60 or 70 movies.

The usual mini AA towel. LOL.

This my second time on this flight in a week, having flown this one returning from dropping out the grandkids with the Hawaii in-laws. Food tonight wasn't much better. UA offers three excellent entrée choices but AA still thinks two are just swell. I had preselected one ravioli and one prawn cake from the new menu.  

Alas, catering screwed up or they just decided to use up the last of the old frozen meals. And with no old menus to go around, a photocopy will have to do.  

Mrs. SFO was still full from lunch and wisely decided none of the above and passed on the meal or any part thereof. I took one for the team and decided to try a repeat of the mahi mahi. No, I do not want the bowl of rice option. Ms. "I don't eat fish" in 5B wasn't as lucky.

The Spicy Ginger Salmon was better than last week and didn't taste stinky fishy like last week. Also, less rice.

Hard to imagine but the salad looked even worse than last week.

And what is that yellow stuff? Orange ginger vinaigrette? Not very vinaigrette looking. No chance I was going to try that part.

Was a much different color with a lot more beets and blue cheese last week, although it didn't make any difference as the beets and cheese still had little taste. 
Mercifully, the mahi mahi was not bone dry like last week and actually pretty good especially with a lot more sauce today.

The AA dessert cart.

Not even close to the style and class of the UA dessert cart from a few days ago.

For dessert, I only had a little chocolate with my sundae as I wanted to taste the ice cream. LOL. Virtually tasteless. Indeed the "vanilla" ice cream is clearly sourced from the lowest cost provider and is "vanilla" in name only.

Although the 763 seats are narrow, they do angle lie flat and we were both able to sleep for about 4 hours.  

DFW-DEN
AA 2374
MD-80
7:25A-8:00A
August 1, 2015
"Refreshments

The old Mad Dog is my favorite AA airplane. Like an comfy old shoe. None of these stupid new slimline, slider seats. And 6EF are my favorite seats with great recline.

We had grabbed an Au Bon Pain wrap in the terminal so I only took a couple of almond cranberry thins from the snack basket.

We arrived in DEN on time and were home 45 minutes later.

As a post script, three days later Mrs. SFO couldn't find her iPad. Amazingly, Find my Phone showed it in Concourse A at DEN. After a few phone calls, we were able to locate it and I picked it up from AA Baggage Service office later that day.
 

July 2014

With three hours before departure, I decided to lounge hop, starting with the Admirals Club, co-located and branded with JAL's Sakura Lounge.  This is the third Honolulu AC club and location in my memory.  While a more convenient location than the former one in the distant Gate 26-34 pier, it just doesn't do anything for me despite the recent make-over.   And since AA was late to return to the Gates 14-23 pier location, they got the worst space, upstairs down a narrow corridor over the Kona Brewing Co.  The staff is still great (I even got an email from them saying they were looking forward to my visit), the club just plain sucks.

The new minimalist style.  Meh.  Most depressing.

Pathetic food offferings.

The worst thing about the club was the terrible Wifi, on par with the PIT US Airways Club for the slowest in the system.  I got so frustrated with the lack of speed that I left after 10 minutes and headed to the United Club.