Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

Yes, I know that. But do you have to buy a glass of champagne to use a
seat in the champagne bar?

OK, maybe not. But I suspect you won't get a seat there unless you're
planning to buy something from the bar.

On a side note, I had forgotten about the seats in the E* departure
lounge but obviously they're not located within the land-side part of StP.

That's not as helpful as you might think. IIRC all the Widened Lines
curves were restricted by sharp curvature to some extent.

In that case I'm talking about the tunnel section between SPILL and KXTL.

Ugh!

Just out of interest, how did you cope with KXTL?