The fully renovated lounge seamlessly integrates contemporary design and architecture with Arabian influences, creating an environment that combines peace and tranquility with extensive modern-day business and catering facilities. For the first time, premium passengers have the added facilities of seven private sleeping rooms, a cigar lounge and shower rooms with hotel-style towels and luxury brand toiletries and amenities.

Passengers can stay connected with free Wi-Fi throughout the lounge, discreet power sockets at every seat and a business center that includes PCs, fax machines and printers. For families, the lounge offers a spacious family room with highly trained professional SkyNannies in attendance as well as a gaming room equipped with Xbox and PlayStation units.

Gulf Air CEO Samer Majali said the upgraded lounge was a further example of the airline's commitment to investing in its hub. "Bahrain is our most important market so developing and improving our home-product is key. The new lounge is the latest in a series of service enhancements across our entire passenger value chain including the relaunch of our Sky Nanny Service, Sky Chef, online check-in and a robust network connectivity in the Middle East."

Gulf Air Chief Services Officer Marcus Bernhardt said: "The revamp of the Bahrain Falcon Gold Lounge is part of an extensive lounge-renovation program across our network, which saw the inauguration last year of our new premium lounge in Terminal 4 at Heathrow International Airport in London, and will be preceded next year by the upgrading of our premium lounge in Dubai International Airport."