Originally Posted by
Points Scrounger
It's not that Courtyard disallows U. S. lounge access, but that there are none, and presumably won't be anytime soon.
Are you certain there are
no Courtyards with lounges in the US or Canada? They already distinguish between Courtyards with lounges and Courtyards without lounges outside the US, so it isn't really clear why they'd bother carving out the US if they weren't trying to limit access to
something.