"Bechtel is a major engineering and construction firm with heavy US government and defense project exposure, placing it in a similar risk tier to other defense/engineering codes. hotelcorporatecodes.com rates it "Sometimes." Properties near Bechtel project sites (Houston, DC metro, Reston VA) may be more attentive. No specific forum threads document elevated enforcement, keeping it at the standard Medium level consistent with the defense/engineering calibration pattern."

"I work for the front desk, at a Marriott, & have for the last 8 years .... So when it comes to room upgrades; it goes based on AVAILABILITY... sometimes no matter the tier, if we have it available - I will upgrade the guest. Now of course, higher tiered members get dibs on the upgrades first but after we go through the higher tiered members, Ambassador, Titanium, Platinum - then we go through the other ones. I cannot express this enough : BEING NICE & POLITE AT THE DESK GOES A LONG WA"

"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."