Of course the hotel wins, I am there for 4 nights every week, otherwise I would chose a different hotel that offered a cheaper rate, most likely a Marriott. Been LP for a few years, doing the BIB time and paying high rates or low rates. My expense reports are per diem and airfare is corp billed. Basically it's hotel per nights and per diem. Not much to fudge there but I ain't justifying it, someone else is. I just do it every week, year after year. Marriott loves my loyalty and I appreciate their haggle free checkin when using some other rate.

If Marriott busted my chops on it I would move on to Hilton, oh yeah, got status there too, or Westin or Hyatt, have status there too and use different company rates. Like I said whatever is cheaper for the customer. That's it. Not even a second thought ever. Even checked in last week and checkin in DC said oh I see your company x guy and gave her my company y ID, LOL, guess she really cared.

I think your pissed because I don't care and either does the checkin person. Just get me my room and here's my CC? See you next week and the next 8 weeks after that. In this case, I have used Government rate, company y, company x, company z codes at same hotel for over 17 weeks, not a peep. Heck I even used an AARP rate, lol, see you next week.