What a mess this Crowne Plaza lounge access is, we now have members relaying experiences at Nottingham, Stratford-on-Avon, Liverpool Speke and Solihull that directly contradict one another. So now it seems we can’t even gather together a reliable list of Spire lounge access because of this difference in approach by FD!
This again reflects the problem of IHG leaving it up to hotels to decide on the benefit. IHG needs to gird itself for this and tell the hotels it’s an amenity choice rather than leaving their top tier members wondering at checkin...