Originally Posted by Land-of-Miles

Some properties (e.g. Sheraton Skyline Heathrow) are low rise with a large number of rooms per floor. The "club floor" potentially encompasses half of the hotel. There is no way that the club lounge could ever hold all these guests, hence keeping club lounge benefits for plats or paying club room guests is a sensible policy.

This does seem to contradict lurkers recent clarification of policy at properties in the Meridien MRU thread.