"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 work as a consultant and frequently ask for and use my client's rates (at their insistence, since I will be billing them back). I have been asked for ID maybe one time in 15 since February, when it was announced in this forum that rates would be ID'ed."

"I don't do mobile check-in if I'm wanting to upgrade. I check the app before I go in to see if any suites are available to book during the duration of my stay. If there is I just say "Would it be possible to get upgraded to an available suite with my platinum benefit?". Of course this is typically at the hotel that I stay in about once a month for 3 day at a time for work. The front desk pretty much knows me and know that I am fairly low maintenance."