"FlyerTalk documents Samsung codes as remarkable — one user reported 70% off at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. HotelCorporateCodes.com rates Samsung as "Sometimes" for ID verification at Hyatt. Hyatt's general pattern: Park Hyatt checks most frequently, Grand Hyatt and Regency occasionally, Hyatt Place/House rarely. Hyatt is described as "notorious for checking for ID," especially internationally. One user documented 50% ID check rate across Hyatt stays in 10 countries, mitigated by self-printed business cards which "worked 100% of the time.""

"I agree with that, but I do think that Hyatt would garner a solid amount of business by offering a FT discount code. If Hyatt did this they would get some very good press here on FT and to my knowledge be the first large hotel/airline to offer such a discount to us. If the discount was decent enough...something greater than AAA discount, they would probably steal some biz from the competition. I belong to other forums where corporations do offer forum members a unique discount. Of course in the matter of minutes that code would be plastered all over fatwallet and slickdeals and no longer be unique."

"I would strongly advise the use of a corporate discount code that you are not entitled to. No doubt that IBM would receive a summary of all reservations made under their code and at what property, and no doubt lurkers on here would be well aware of unauthorised use. In essence it amounds to fraud and I would not want IBM or Hyatt's legal department against me."