Hot off my trip back from Mexico City I’m outward bound again. To Dubai!

We are taking Emirates for the first time via SFO, so we are checking out the lounge.

Starting our journey with a delayed flight so let’s see how this all goes. My bud’s loving this already.

Emirates lounge was super spacious. Which felt all the more awkward given we were one of the only people in the lounge. Lounge is nice. They had a good spread of middle eastern food.

Even nicer is you board directly from the lounge into the plane. Didn’t have to worry about going back outside. I could get used to this! They called for boarding and we got on.

As a splurge, Pokin booked us business class flights using her Chase points. From there, there was an option to upgrade to first class (the way to go versus paying full fare), but we figured this was enough of an indulgence!

Emirates business class is pretty nice. Not only do they have lie flat seats, they also give you pyjamas. Really soft ones. As always they didn’t have anything in my size but I was able to appreciate it on my bud’s behalf. There they are with their matching PJs.

There’s also this lounge in the back where you can help yourself to snacks and order additional drinks, which made the flight go pretty smooth.

Some 14+ hours later, we landed to Dubai, pretty well rested given we were on a flight.

Because our friends were flying first class, we had an escort help us get through security on god mode. Passed all the lines and were escorted over to the lounge.

The Emirates lounge in Dubai is the biggest lounge I’ve ever seen. I feel like it practically stretched the whole airport terminal. Again when we arrived it was pretty empty (we got in around 8pm), but I guess most of the flights are red eyes because by the time we left at 2:00 AM it was really really full.

We passed our 7 hours there doing calls. And then it was onwards to the Maldives!