Heathrow and the Concorde Terrace

Fortunately, our T5 arrival gate was close to the T5 Flight Connections lane, where we followed Fast Track.

And our first miserable-BA-employee encounter of the day.   She admonished passengers for not using the electronic gates with a not so friendly "don't stand in line, go use the electrronic gates".  Of course, the electronic gattes weren't working so we all got a "Please see BA Agent" which made her even more of a rhymes-with-witch.  She barked at a few more people before escorting some hapless passenger to parts unknown.  Fortunately, her colleague was more pleasant, checked our reservation and re-issued our Split Airport boarding passes on BA stock.

Not much traffic on the way to security.

And naturally, more than half the carry-ons, including mine were being kicked out for futher inspection.

Fifteen minutes later, we were good to go... shopping.  LOL.

And then to the BA Lounges and the current temporary Concorde Room, the old Galleries First Terrace, which looked like this last summer.

 OK, much better than the Beach. 

With lots of beverages displayed.

... including the good stuff.  But don't even think about touching or trying to pour a drink for yourself lest you risk getting your wrist slapped.

All OK in concept but apparently someone forgot that it gets warm out here, even warmerr when the sun shines.  I would estimate the terrace temp in the sun was pushing 30C, but well north of 25C even in the shade.  Contrast that with a pleasant 21/22 inside.  Then there was the unaccpetable power outlet situation.  These were the only two outlets in the entire terrace.  I borrowed a charger for my phone but had to leave my laptop inside to charge.  More BA intelligence. 

Food options presumably the same as inside.

On the other hand, Mrs. SFO777 ate the entire Loaded Nachos with chili and was so full that she hardly ate anything on the 11 hour flight to LAX.

All in all, The Concorde Terrace was fine, except for the warm temps and lack of power outlets.  Nice to see BA didn't cut back the liquor offerings as LPGS and Johnny Blue were readily available.  And unlike with Lufthansa at FRA, at least there was a First Class Lounge for us to use.    At around T-60, we headed out for our far distance B42.   Planning for the worst, we stopped at Gordon Ramsay Plane Food... just in case.