"GE's IHG code is directly mentioned in FlyerTalk: "The GE code brings a Holiday Inn rate down from $114 to $84." A more recent thread warns: "In the past two years, IHG has been very careful in checking on people using IBM and GE corporate rates. Not only corporate ID is required, also an email from IBM or GE to confirm staff identity in extreme cases." GE's documented 70% discount at InterContinental Chicago makes it a high-audit-trigger code at luxury IHG properties. Holiday Inn Express tier: low risk. InterContinental/Kimpton tier: high risk, consistent with the brand-tier pattern across all IHG properties."

"Electronic Data Systems (EDS) IHG code (136905) follows the same profile as EDS Marriott — a widely-circulated code from a company now absorbed into HP/DXC Technology. FlyerTalk's IHG Rate Codes thread: "A moderator explicitly cautioned: unless you're employed by one of those companies, I would avoid using these codes at all. They do often ask for ID." EDS employee credentials (badges) no longer exist post-HP acquisition, which could complicate verification. IHG InterContinental: likely to ask; Holiday Inn Express: rarely."

"Yesteryear it wasnt so risky sinc ethe CX policy was Day of @ Check-in time, so as long as you got there before the CX time was past, then if carded all you had to say was OK CX the res then. That doesnt exist any longer as its now 24 hrs before if not earlier, so no ID they simply will charge the CC you used when you made the res , forget about Disputing it as the hotel will produce the res and their CX policy and that you used a code that you werent entitled to use"