In most airports around the world, smoking lounges are non-existent or absolutely disgusting. At Cape Town however, British American Tobacco has funded the development of a new state-of-the-art airport lounge which will allow smokers to enjoy a cigarette in an environment which uses a new high-tech ventilation system to manage stale air. Stale air is expelled and filters are automatically ozone flushed whilst maintaining an even temperature of 22 degrees C.

The lounge can be found where the Brioche bar used to be on the concourse at International Arrivals & Departures. It was designed by Todwil Retail Solutions.

Within the lounge there are Holopro screens which display flight information on clear glass. Its highly specialised impregnated glass which remains transparent whilst thee image “reflects” on the surface remarkably clearly. The lounge also boasts a bar run by All Leisure which sells drinks, coffees & snacks. A vending machine imported from the US has been converted from dispensing drinks into a robotic cigarette pack delivery system.

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