item 3, lounge is outside before dropping bag. so make sure you allocate 1h plus to walk to boarding gate.

Its just 1 hour use of hotel room for you to take shower and rest.
No food given.

The 3 locations u mentioned in Terminal 2 are next to each other:

1. Flight club has minimal seating, can get packed, focus is on eating.
2. Aerotel is to shower and nap.
3. PPL is to rest and relax. Some food and snacks, free beer.

If you are looking for a tip, I would say your lounge experience on that day would depends on the foot traffic that comes in into the lounge. if you are lucky, it will be relatively quiet and able to relax peacefully. If your time and date happens to have a lot of folks coming to the lounge, you will be hard pressed for seating (compounded if there are customers who put their bags on the already limited seats), a quiet ambience and worst if the cleaning staff are slow or nowhere to be found on that day.

Such a scene is not unusual even in the airline lounges nowadays let alone 3rd party/PPL lounges. Just too many folks hitting the lounges now and many are just coming in with poor behaviors spoiling the experience for many.

Your only option would be on the option 3 then. Do check their operation hours. Realised need to check those the hard way when I decided to skip hotel breakfast and go straight to airport thinking to enter lounges in Melbourne, only to find out it dont open 24 hours a day.

I’ve been to lounge where it only serve free coffee and tea. For food need to pay 1000 Yen. Worst experience ever