"Daimler Benz's Hyatt code (99800) is for the Mercedes-Benz parent company. Daimler has major presence in Stuttgart, Germany and significant US operations in Alabama (Mercedes-Benz US Manufacturing). Hyatt's European enforcement pattern applies: Park Hyatt Frankfurt/Munich/Stuttgart carry higher verification risk. FlyerTalk's Hyatt thread: "In Europe and some parts of Asia, proof has been requested 100% of the time." US domestic Hyatt Place: essentially never checked. Daimler later restructured as Mercedes-Benz Group AG."

"I know that my former employer, a very large non US-based multinational company (I am not sure if US-based companies are more careful due to liability issues etc.), doesn't really care whether or not the person using its hotel corporate rates (worldwide agreements with 2 different large hotel chains) is an employee. In fact the company secretly hopes that others (non-staff) use its corporate rate. The name of the game is volume and the more the volume the better the company's leverage on the hotel. That is why it is usually the hotels who insist on asking for company IDs or business cards (which I suppose anyone can print ... though I am not suggesting that FTers should go this route)."

"I don’t really know how they truly enforce this. A lot of companies don’t even put the company name or brand on ID cards anymore due to security concerns (if you find a card on the ground it’s a lot harder to know where to use it). In 20 years of traveling for work I’ve only been asked for a form of ID one time, which was in Germany, and sending the front desk agent an email from my corporate email address took care of their concern."