"Philips' IHG code (953100013) is for the Dutch electronics and healthcare company. IHG enforcement is brand-tier dependent: InterContinental properties in Amsterdam (Philips' HQ city) and other European markets are most likely to verify. Holiday Inn Express properties in the US: essentially never check. Philips has major operations across Europe, North America, and Asia — IHG InterContinental in those regions carries moderate verification risk. FlyerTalk general IHG warning: "They do often ask for ID at full-service properties.""

"I had the same experience with the IBM corporate rate. When I went to IBM sites to install machines they always said stay at one of these hotels and tell them you need the IBM rate. Always worked and saved a lot of money and I always got full credit with the hotels frequent stay program."

"Yesteryear it wasnt so risky sinc ethe CX policy was Day of @ Check-in time, so as long as you got there before the CX time was past, then if carded all you had to say was OK CX the res then. That doesnt exist any longer as its now 24 hrs before if not earlier, so no ID they simply will charge the CC you used when you made the res , forget about Disputing it as the hotel will produce the res and their CX policy and that you used a code that you werent entitled to use"