I’ve got three stays in Melbourne over the next 60 days so will report back for that property.

My first stay this year, at ICGS Hong Kong (4 nights), resulted in a 10 minute checkout experience, with whispered calls to room service, reams of paperwork and frantic typing into a real old school calculator. All to make sure I was under the limit.

Since then I’ve had no obvious scrutiny at all at check out. Once I was reminded of a minibar charge, but it was wiped immediately when I flagged I was RA. That includes hotels that are normally super strict on application of Amb/RA rules such as HKGS and IC SYD.

I don’t tend to empty the minibar to the value of USD50 every night but I’m sure I’ve overused once or twice, so far no issue.

For reference, hotels are London PL, Paris Le Grand, Sing IC, FRA, MEL, both HKG, both SYD.