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Old Nov 7, 2014 | 1:26 pm
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BostonFlyer1624
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Originally Posted by mooper
Yes, she can book the room for you and she doesn't need a paper cert nor does she need to show up as long as the reservation is made in your name.
Actually, this is incorrect. You are not allowed to used the cert from the credit card for someone other than the named credit card holder.

In practice, I doubt many people care or ever have issues with this, but I wanted to clarify.
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