Originally Posted by
christianj
Had a recent audit and there were two instances where I was booked into a hotel in one city for a week and during that week i needed to go to another city for a short one night meeting. Initially got credit for the week long stay and the one night but during the audit they removed the one night stay. Had an email discussion (since you can't physically talk to the auditor) and the auditor confirms it is against the T&C. For me this means I will just stay with another chain when this comes up again in the future.
Make sure you explain that to them.
I knew somebody who had a similar situation with an airline: work sent him for two weeks, he wanted to go somewhere else for the middle weekend, the airline said that was not allowed (inside-out ticketing). He asked if he was physically limited in where he could go during his trip, the airline rep said of course not. He then asked if the airline would prefer him to use a different airline for the intermediate weekend trip. They sold him the ticket. (This was way back in the days of physical tickets purchased via people.)