"Hyatt's general corporate code thread documents verification experiences but no BNP Paribas-specific cases were found. The FlyerTalk consensus: "The hotel has the right to request support of your affiliation — typically a business card will suffice." BNP Paribas is a major European financial institution. Financial sector codes at Hyatt carry moderate-to-high scrutiny, especially in European markets where BNP has strong presence."

"I believe it's depends on the hotel. Hyatt will not verify your job status, as long as you made the bookings. However hotel has right to check your badges if they wish. it is very unlikely to harm you, the worse they can do is request you to make full public rate payment. I stayed at Conrad Shenzhen last year with my friend. He kept using his old company's rate code to make Hilton hotel booking even though he has already left. The front desk asked him to verify but he couldn't, so we made full payment in the end, no drama."

"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)."