I landed at the Qatar Airport awhile ago and since I had some free time before my connecting flight to Kuwait I decided I would walk around and check out the airport. While doing so I spotted A&W which is my favorite burger and root beer place and I automatically fell in love with the airport. Even though their duty free section is crap, even though the airport is small, even though its over crowded and even though the bathrooms are dirty as hell, they had A&W which quickly made everything better. So I quickly went and ordered a double cheese burger and root beer combo. Guess what? The place is a fake! It seems once upon a time maybe in the 80’s the place was an A&W but they left a long time ago and now all thats left is their A&W signage. I didn’t find out until I got my burger and it was wrapped up under a different brand. The burger turned out to be really nasty and I felt cheated. Whats worse is that I paid over $10 for this crappy combo which would have been worth it if it had been A&W but definitely not for this crap.
This airport has officially become my least favorite in the Gulf. Luckily my stop over is really short so I should be back in Kuwait very soon.
15 replies on “A&W at the Qatar Airport”
too bad for Qatar reputation, i guess!
Qatar airlines are considered to be the second in the region, they should have a proper airport alone with it !
They’re building their new airport… This is only a temporary one!
i always hated A &W but only because i hate root beer…
ill try the food again maybe ;P
They underconstruction of a new terminal man. Doha�s first phase is scheduled to open in early 2009 with a capacity for 12 million passengers yearly. Planned expansions will raise that to 24 million passengers by 2015.
check https://www.arinc.com/images/pr_doha_intl_large.jpg
Mark, it seems that my comments doesn’t appear since the last post ! and when i tried to comment again i received the word press thingy abt double comments : /
Oh at last ..!
guess it worked now : )
LOL, I thought it was a real A&W and tried to order a root beer!
Ohh.. U just reminded me of the good old days, when we used to skip school to hang around A&W in Salmiya
i hate root beer
I hated their airport .. yakeee even when i saw A&W i felt it’s fake . i think the only good thing is the planes not even the staff & how they treat u.
They have a Premier Terminal for 1st and Business class passengers. You dont wanna miss that.
I was there last week, should’ve asked me because I also spotted A&W and had so much doubt that I evaded it from far sight. talking about the useless duty free section, I should say that I really really thank them for making my dream come true because they had the last 3 seasons of seinfeld boxsets that I was trying to find for a loong time!! and that coffeeshop in the 1st floor of the duty is even worse than A&W, near gate 1&2, avoid at all costs!
I KNOW.
i went there last year – and it was the same problem. it’s not an A&W; the place doesn’t even have root beer :S it was really annoying… i had some cheap chicken thing and left.
if only they hadn’t closed down the A&W we had next to Fanar…
Anyone tried AFC – yes hold your damn breath: AIRPORT FRIED CHICKEN! woo – hoo way to go Qatar Airport!
dont even try it; you won’t stop puking…. it is HORRIBLE!
i went to A&W in qatar airport and i was shocked,it wasnt good the resturant wasnt clean.
didnt like it the burger. after eating it i got food poison