"HotelCorporateCodes.com rates Marriott WEL as "Sometimes" for ID verification. Marriott tends to verify more than Hilton or IHG. The SF Marriott properties — near Wells Fargo HQ — were specifically mentioned as properties that cracked down on corporate code abuse. No WEL-specific denial documented in public forums. Business cards have been reported as universally accepted when verification is requested."

"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 have a close friend who is a GM at a Marriott property in a fairly large US city (top 25 metro population). Their opinion is basically, "Hey, it's business. I'm not turning away a paying guest if they don't have the right ID." In this person's younger days as a front desk agent, they enjoyed catching people trying to use a corporate rate that the guest was not entitled to. As they became higher up and saw the books, occupancy rates, etc... Corp ID's became far less important than filling rooms."