Rating lounges, is bigger better and how important is service?

Hi there, just completed what I hope is my last business trip for the year. On this trip I visited the Al Mourjan lounge in Doha for the first time, its certainly impressive but for me I prefer being able to find a smaller more intimate space with a comfortable chair and desk to work from if needed like the ones in QF First Class lounge in Melb. If I don't have too much work to do I still prefer a smaller area such as the Red Suite Library room at Haneda which is one of my favourites. In the Dubai First Class Emirates lounge I will sometimes go to the cigar bar even though I am a non smoker. Service wise I find the QF lounges excellent with particular standout service from Ronald and his colleagues in Singapore. 

Lounge features - In order of importance (IMHO)

1. Wifi - Decent speeds - Ease of use - Unmetered
2. Clean and continuously being cleaned as people vacate and new guests arrive
3. Generally well appointed - Timeless furniture (no I do not mean Rococo) or decade-appropriate furniture
4. Comfortable seats and a selection of seats (armchairs, chaise lounge, sofas, hard benches etc. etc.)
5. Adequate tables for meals
6. Adequate quiet corners
7. Appropriate lighting (orange/dim lighting - white lights feels like a prison)
8. Gracious service - Engaging but not too servile
9. Time appropriate meals
10. Decent snacks outside meal times
11. Decent (internationally minded) selection of hot and cold beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic
12. Other options on television besides sports, if televisions are in place
13. Adequate screens to show gates and departure information

Good list TRB - but...rather than a list in order of priorities, maybe buckets or categories of priorities would be a better way to look at it...

That's a very interesting question...

I prefer large lounges but agree re them being segregated into zones.

Good list. 

I prefer small as it's more manageable and intimate. Large spaces can become like barns, Qantas Club in Sydney comes to mind. If they're divided into zones, then more like a rabbit warren, and I move around a bit too find my space.

A number of readers also shared recently that natural sunlight was practically a 'must have' for them (during the day, of course), as opposed to artificial lighting. TRB, it's interesting to see that lighting also rates higher on your list than appropriate meals, service and flight information etc. :)