"EMC Corporation (now Dell EMC) carries a three-letter ticker-style code listed across major aggregators. hotelcorporatecodes.com rates it "Sometimes." EMC merged into Dell in 2016, meaning legitimate EMC-branded employee credentials no longer exist — a fact that could increase scrutiny at properties aware of the company's acquisition history. Standard Medium rating applies consistent with tech-sector patterns: discount depth drives enforcement, not company name alone."

"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."