The things people ask before they join

Second Floor, 31-C, Facing Al-Fatah, Commercial, Side B, Sector C Commercial Area, Bahria Town, Lahore 53720. It is one flight of stairs up, and Al-Fatah is the landmark most people navigate by.

Desk&Wifi opened on 1 August 2019 as the first coworking space in Bahria Town, founded by Asad Abdullah. A dedicated team runs the space day to day, and some of the people who joined in that first year still work here.

Call or WhatsApp +92 307 6442833, or email info@deskandwifi.pk. Reception is open 09:00 to 21:00 Monday to Friday and 09:00 to 17:00 on Saturday.

Yes, and it is free. There is room for cars right outside the building and a dedicated space for bikes. It is open parking rather than an attended car park, so lock your vehicle: vehicles parked outside remain the owner's responsibility.

Reception is open 09:00 to 21:00 Monday to Friday and 09:00 to 17:00 on Saturday, and that is when someone is there to show you round or sign you up. The space itself is open from Monday 09:00 right through to Saturday 17:00: Hall 1 is open 09:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday and 09:00 to 17:00 on Saturday, and Hall 2 runs continuously across the week. Apart from the conference room, which is available at any hour, the space is closed on Sundays and public holidays.

Partly, and it is worth being precise. The conference room is available 24 hours a day, every day, and a private office taken on a 24-hour plan can be used round the clock. The shared halls do not: Hall 2 closes on Saturday at 17:00 and the halls are shut on Sundays and public holidays. Shared plans described as 24-hour access mean 24 hours Monday to Saturday, not seven days a week.

A day pass is PKR 1,999. A shared desk starts at PKR 9,999 a month, and a private office starts at PKR 79,999 a month. Six-month terms save 10% and annual terms save 15%. Every plan includes the meeting room, the library, power backup and air conditioning rather than charging for them separately.

Yes. A day pass is PKR 1,999 and gets you the shared workspace, the wifi, the tea and coffee and the meeting room, with no commitment beyond the day.

No minimum term. You choose the length you pay for — a day, a week, a month, six months or a year. Every member signs our terms and conditions and house rules when they join. Payments are non-refundable, and a membership can be cancelled with immediate effect if the terms or rules are broken.

No. Desk&Wifi does not take a security deposit — you pay for the plan you choose, and that is all.

Members on Regular and Premium plans can bring one guest a month, free of charge, as long as reception is told at least 24 hours in advance.

Plans are paid in advance, by bank transfer, JazzCash, Easypaisa or cash. Once your invoice is generated it is due within 3 days; after that a late surcharge applies. There is no card payment on the website yet, so nothing is charged automatically — you pay, we mark the invoice paid, and you get a receipt.

Nine private offices across two floors — five on the first floor, four on the second — holding three or four desks each. They are fully private, air-conditioned managed offices: Desk&Wifi runs them, so residents are not handed keys, and every office is covered by CCTV. Offices are taken in 10-hour shifts or for the full 24 hours, and a resident who holds an office for the full 24 hours can ask for access to its CCTV. Everything included in the shared plans still applies.

No. The conference room is included with every plan, from a day pass upward, and it is bookable by the hour at any time of day.

The space runs on solar power with a battery bank, which keeps the desks, the lights and the wifi running through load-shedding. For most members this is the practical reason to work here rather than at home or in a cafe.

The line is 200 Mbps down and 200 Mbps up with ping under 5 ms, and each device is capped at 100 Mbps so one big download cannot slow the room for everyone else. Large torrent downloads are kept to designated low-traffic hours; reception will tell you when.

The Premium plan includes 30 free black-and-white pages a month, the Regular plan 20. The Basic plan and day and week passes can use the printer, with no free pages. The Starter plan does not include printing. Beyond any free pages, black-and-white prints are PKR 5 a page and colour prints PKR 10 a page.

On a dedicated desk plan, yes — seats are fixed positions and we write the member name on them, so you can leave a monitor set up and come back to it. On the lighter plans you take any free seat in the hall.

Yes — a locker comes with the Premium plan and private offices. It is yours for as long as you are a member, with its own key, and only you have that key. They are in the halls where you work: a column of them beside the desks, and more built into the library wall, so your things stay where you sit.

Ergonomic mesh chairs on five-star bases, and desks made for this space rather than bought off a shelf. Each desk has the depth and the legroom to take a chair right underneath, so you sit close to your work and still stretch out under it. Members tell us they can work at them for hours without feeling it — and because the chairs push all the way in, the halls look clear and open when nobody is sitting.

Yes. There are 71 printed books on the shelf — history, economics, technology, philosophy and fiction, in English and Urdu — and members borrow them against their account for fourteen days. The shelf runs along the front wall of Hall 2, the wall facing you as you come in, built as open bays of books between lockers. The whole catalogue is online, so you can see what is there before you visit.

Yes, for members. The library has 71 printed books to borrow, 31 e-books to read online and 8 audio books. The e-books and audio books open in the browser on a phone or laptop, at the space or at home, with nothing to download. The reader turns pages like paper, remembers your place and lets you bookmark, highlight and make notes; the audio player remembers where you stopped and keeps playing with the screen off. Among the e-books are Urdu classics: Allama Iqbal's Bang-e-Dra, Bal-e-Jibril and Zarb-e-Kalim, Deputy Nazir Ahmad's novels and Patras Bukhari's essays, which turn right to left like a printed Urdu book.

Yes. Your member account installs on your phone's home screen like an app, with nothing to download from an app store. From it you book the meeting room, tell the desk about a guest, see your invoices and receipts, use the library and read notices from the desk. It can also notify you when your guest arrives, a parcel comes in, a booking is about to start or a book is due back.

They are about keeping a shared room workable. Use headphones for music and keep voices down. Take calls and team discussions to the conference room — a quiet Zoom call at your desk is fine. Please do not rearrange the furniture, smoke only in the designated area by the stairs, and keep food in the fridge in a personal box, since it is cleared after 10 hours. If another member is bothering you, tell reception rather than taking it up directly.

Yes, and it is the sensible thing to do. Take the virtual tour on this site first — both floors, drawn to scale, with every room's photo and price — then come by during reception hours, 09:00 to 21:00 Monday to Friday and 09:00 to 17:00 on Saturday, or message us on WhatsApp and we will keep a seat free. There is no obligation and no tour script.