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Originally Posted by l'etoile
While I know many government employees use the discount for leisure purposes, I believe that this is technically illegal as fed employees, at least, are not entitled to receive personal discounts for being a government employee.
Actually, the federal government has ruled that federal employees
may use government rates for leisure travel as long as the particular hotel's policy extends the government rate to all government employees on leisure travel, and there is no apparent conflict of interest. If you search the Marriott forum for "government," you'll find a thread with an extended discussion of this, and a link to the federal ethics opinion which contains the ruling.