"There are countless stories of guests getting IDs checked, in some cases needing a special company letter or requiring a company fax confirming the reason for staying. Park Hyatt Sydney reportedly liaised directly with the company travel desk — one guest who resigned had their upcoming booking cancelled because they were no longer authorised to use the rate. Hyatt is noted as quite strict about checking identification, especially in Asia and Europe."

"I know that my former employer, a very large non US-based multinational company (I am not sure if US-based companies are more careful due to liability issues etc.), doesn't really care whether or not the person using its hotel corporate rates (worldwide agreements with 2 different large hotel chains) is an employee. In fact the company secretly hopes that others (non-staff) use its corporate rate. The name of the game is volume and the more the volume the better the company's leverage on the hotel. That is why it is usually the hotels who insist on asking for company IDs or business cards (which I suppose anyone can print ... though I am not suggesting that FTers should go this route)."

"We have a personal travel option in Concur and can also use the corporate travel agency for personal travel. Rates usually match between Concur and booking direct with the code but vary from time to time. The PH Sydney dates I looked at were $1,200 (BAR), $700 (corp code), $500 (Concur)."