"A Fishbowl post titled "Anyone ever use another company's corporate discount code for Marriott? XOM Exxon code is showing a significant discount" directly references this code, confirming community awareness. FlyerTalk confirms Marriott is usually strict about corporate codes: "Consultants who tried to use a former company's code were required to produce a valid company ID. Since they couldn't, they were charged the full going rate of $300 instead of the corp rate of around $100." XOM is a ticker-style code with high profile."

"I have stayed 100s of times with various corporate rates (including Japan) and the only hotel that has asked is W hotels. Even then they didn’t push much. I have been a consultant for 20 years and many clients require you to use their rates when they are paying the bill. The hotel doesn’t have an up to date list of every employee that works for a company globally. The woman at the W said “I don’t really care, just show me anything on your phone that says your name and that company. You can type an email now “."

"I used to work night audit at a 4 diamond Marriott resort. It was me, an 80 year old valet who just slept in the cars, and a 4'11" security guard. She wouldn't check anything out because "I'm a woman. If there's someone there, they could attack me." So I, the 19 year old woman, would investigate. Guest needed towels? I brought them. I would have to go up to a computer room to run some of my reports. I occasionally had to pee, because I'm selfish like that. So whenever I was gone from the front desk, it was just unstaffed. It sucked."