"PwC's Marriott code PCW is in the same tier as Deloitte (DTC), EY (EYC), and Accenture (ACC) — all Big 4 / consulting codes with documented community discussion. Fishbowl posts from consulting professionals: "How do you get around the ID check for consulting codes at Marriott?" — confirming awareness. PwC has the most heterogeneous employee base of the Big 4 (audit, advisory, tax, legal) making ID matching harder. hotelcorporatecodes.com: "⚠️ Sometimes" for PCW. US select-service: essentially no enforcement. US full-service: 10-20%. International: significantly higher."

"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 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"