World Traveller 73 
Review: American Express Centurion Lounge, Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, USA
This post is one chapter on our trip to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Melbourne with The Great Ocean Road, exploring The Yarra Valley and the beaches of The Gold Coast via Qantas First Class. This trip was booked using Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan. For more information on how this trip was booked, please see our trip introduction here. For other parts of the trip, please see this index.
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Read More From This Trip
- Introduction: Melbourne & Whitsunday Islands, Australia via Qantas First Class
- Alaska Airlines First Class: Vancouver – Seattle
- Alaska Airlines Premium Class: Seattle – Los Angeles
- Marriott LAX, Los Angeles, USA
- To Malibu for Lunch, California, USA
- Qantas First Class Lounge: Tom Bradley International Terminal Los Angeles, USA
- Qantas First Class: Los Angeles – Melbourne
- Westin Melbourne, Australia
- City Visit: Melbourne, Australia – Part I
- City Visit: Melbourne, Australia – Part II
- The Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia
- The Great Ocean Road and the 12 Apostles, Victoria, Australia
- Qantas Business Lounge: Melbourne
- Qantas Business: Melbourne – Hamilton Island
- Qualia Luxury Resort, Hamilton Island, Australia
- Pebble Beach at Qualia Luxury Resort, Hamilton Island, Australia
- Cruise to The Great Barrier Reef, Hardy’s Reef, Australia
- The Great Barrier Reef via Hamilton Island Air Helicopter
- Whitehaven Beach and Hill Inlet, Australia
- Virgin Australia: Prosperine – Brisbane
- Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort and Spa (Gold Coast), Australia
- Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia – Part I
- Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia – Part II
- Qantas Business Lounge: Brisbane
- Qantas Business Class: Brisbane – Sydney
- Pier One Sydney by Autograph Collection, Sydney, Australia
- Qantas First Class Lounge: Sydney Kingford Smith, Sydney, Australia
- Qantas First Class: Sydney – Dallas
- American Express Centurion Lounge: Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Alaska Airlines First Class: Dallas – Seattle
- Alaska Airlines Flagship Lounge: North Satellite – Sea Tac, Seattle, USA
- Alaska Airlines: Seattle – Vancouver
Review: American Express Centurion Lounge, Dallas Forth Worth, Texas, United States
We arrived in Dallas in mostly great shape for an international flight. We had a 7 hour layover at Dallas Forth Worth airport thanks to no earlier Alaska flights available to take us home. After being in a tube for 15 hours on Qantas, I was keen to go outside and get some fresh air. Not having visited Dallas for 20 years, I was reminded from MrsWT73 how muggy the nudity was here. We lasted about 10 minutes outside of the international arrivals hall before we turned into a pool of dripping perspiration.
We returned back into the D concourse and re-cleared security. Although our boarding cards were stamped with “First” and TSA Pre-Check, the officious line dragon denied MrsWT73’s attempt to access the priority line. “It is for privileged people” (of which we were not apparently).
American Express Centurion Lounge
Dallas Forth Worth, Texas, USA
We wandered through to the American Express Centurion Lounge where the kind host checked us in and put us on the list for a complimentary spa treatment. We also gained immediate access to the shower suite, which was much needed after our long flight.
The lounge was a busy place and pretty crowded throughout our stay. The staff managed capacity pretty well as there was always somewhere to sit.
I was able to enjoy the complimentary spa treatment at about 4:20 PM. An enthusiastic massage therapist Christina indicated, as they all do, that I needed to get in for a longer term massage.
We eventually passed the time away, with another order of chicken and salad before left for our flight. The Centurion Lounge was a comfortable, if not crowded, stopover in Dallas. Although the lounges are a great space to get food and drink, the North American locations always seem to be very crowded.
World Traveller 73 
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