Originally Posted by
Often1
The only pressure is on the government employee who asserts a govt. rate for official travel, somehow annoys the FD and gets himself reported to the employee's Inspector General. You could go 25 years and never have an incident or have it happen on the first shot.
Except that there's nothing improper about using a government employee hotel rate for personal travel, except in the (IME very rare) circumstance where the rate, as in the case noted above, expressly bars personal use. Absent the latter -- which would involve a fraud on the hotel and misuse of one's official government ID if the hotel were to insist on display of same -- the OIG wouldn't have anything to pin on you.