In a week's time I will have a 4 hour stopover in Doha. Any (sensible) ideas how I can pass the time there anybody?

Its a small airport and at times horrendously busy. There are two lounges, you could try them. One (think its called ghazal lounge) is pretty good value for money. There's not much else other than that. There's two small food courts with utterly terrible food, and a small duty free area. Head for the lounges.

Sit there staring into space until your flight out. Honestly, not much to do. They may have free internet, they do in Dubai, stroll up and down .. erm, take a book. That's all I got

make sure there is no gun's or ammo in your bags.they all x ray all bags.if found you go to jail long time

Go to lounge,free food free wifi,entry about 30-35$ not sure

Regarding lounge, it's called the Oryx lounge and costs about 40 US$.

Food and drinks complimentary including alcoholic beverages.

Enjoy

Yermanee

The wifi was slower than dial-up last time I was there. Reckon on 4 hours boredom. You will just have to hope your inbound flight is a little late to reduce the time there

Check for yourself :

Yermanee

Just there again 2 weeks ago. If you are Biz/1st you will be fine in the Premium Terminal Lounge and dedicated smoking room if that's your thing.

If you are QR Silver or better, there are dedicated lounges for that in the main terminal. Silver has it's own smoking room.

Normal terminal does have the PTP lounges and food areas as noted. The internet in the airport is free but as one would expect, pretty slow going.

4 hours is not that long. Don't worry, about 2 hrs of it will be quality time on scenic bus tours to and from aircraft and terminals. (Just kidding. Sort of).

Safe travels,

J

Read a book. Bit old fashioned but hey it works.

Sent from my GT-P1010 using Thaivisa Connect App

I am surprised that you have a 4 Hour wait in transit,which country is your onward flight destination to?

I fly QR business between BKK and LHR and sometimes i dont even make it up stairs to the Premium lounge,as they redirect me to the boarding gate.I have accumulated 7 premium lounge pass cards due to the very short onward connection times.

Going from Manchester (UK) to BKK in September with Qatar, as usual now much better value than ETIHAD.

Not much use to you now you've booked but I always book flights which include a 1 hour or 1.5 hour stopover in Doha only.

As other contributors have said not much to do there and why bother changing dosh to Dirhams when you don't need it anywhere else. Use a card in Duty Free, great value drinks and for the smokers, tobacco too. Free internet stations always

busy.

Getting back to ETIHAD why oh why are they becoming uncompetitive on the long-ternm stays. I always did prefer to use them and now my airmiles worse than useless. Don't want to buy that stuff they sell.

Etithad have a promotion at the moment, cheap deals from Middle East to Asia but think it's extends to Europe also

There is one food court that is pretty good and cheap, if I remember correctly it's the one at the very end of the terminal building up against the large windows.

There are some good deals on booze at the duty free shop.

Free wifi, but plugs are hard to find if you need one.

At $40+ I didn't think the lounges were worth it.

I thought there were two t's in butt ? lol