"Hotels located within a 5-mile radius of Apple HQ in Cupertino are significantly more likely to verify. These hotels handle hundreds of Apple travelers a week and are intimately familiar with what corporate ID badges look like. The APL code delivers solid discounts in the Silicon Valley market. No specific rate denial incidents documented, but employee verification may be required."

"I had to change my email to my personal email account. My IT sucks, I have had so many joe.smith1 to joe.smith9 at my corporate name dot Com. Why I like to get my folio in person and on my email. Miss a receipt and your expense report gets rejected. Only been asked once for corporate proff, but I am nice to the staff and explain what's going on before they get a chance to ask. IT still has not figured out how to link everything to Concur for hotels. And it's a huge company"

"I now always make it a matter of course to carry documents (business cards of my contacts, e-mails requesting my visit etc.) from my host company when I travel. This has always proven sufficient for the few times I've been challenged by the front desk clerk."