Originally Posted by
Kalboz
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Club access is guaranteed if you are a Marriott Platinum or higher at the MMQP while the IC Club is accessible only to Royal Ambassadors and people paid Club rates. IHG Platinums, Spires, and Ambassadors have to purchase access for $100++ per room per night. Food is better at M-Club but cocktails are superior at the IC Club.
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To be honest, I found the club, especially the food, so bad at the MMQP that I only went there once. It was typical American unk food to fill up. Gross. Wines not drinkable. No table service for breakfast. Had I paid for that, I'd have left early. Yet the obnoxious guests were well-catered for.
IHG does a very much better job at making Club Lounges an exclusive and rather sophisticated space (so did the Banyan) - compared to Marriott which apparently caters to those that pretty much only want to fill up with free junk.