Originally Posted by WonderDude
The policy is "reasonable expense," but in practice, I've found the cap to be $35 per day (very occasional exceptions allowed).
We have a $400AU per day allowance, which includes hotel accommodation. I don't mind because I can normally get into my favourite travel hotel (the
JW Mumbai) for around $200AU per night, and spend $50 max per day on food.
The company I work for are pretty good. We do very little domestic travel, and when we do travel it's for 6 weeks at a time to India (from Australia) in groups of 15, so they're fairly flexible with what we spend and how.