<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jetsetter:
...You can much more easily use the gov hotel rates, and I've never heard of a gov employee getting in to trouble for doing this.</font>
As a state government employee (faculty member at a public university) I often use government hotel rates on personal travel. I used to tell hotels that it was personal travel, not government business. The reply was always "Doesn't matter. If you're a government employee, you get the rate. Just be sure to bring your ID." So I stopped bothering to mention it.