Marriott has a weird love-hate relationship with lounges. I've stayed in hotels that actively promote the "M Club" - and even a few who provide adequate service there - and then others who have banished the lounge entirely or offer a dreadful bare-bones one.

Stayed at the Whitley Hotel in Atlanta last week; it had a lounge that was quite good by North American standards. In fact, this entire hotel felt like early 2000's in terms of all-around hospitality and quality - great service all around, everything open and operational when it was supposed to be, very clean, etc. No caviar, but....good. Both breakfast and evening. And, Atlanta being Atlanta: Coca-Cola products!

Most of the Marriott lounges are bleak, but they don't seem to have been as straight-line banished as they have at Hilton.