Originally Posted by Grumble

Certain airports with certain arrival times the company is allowed to book a field hotel if it’s under 16 hour layover.

One example is EWR with a 0630 land after a red eye and a 15 hour layover. By the time you made it downtown it would be an 11 hour with rush hour on both ends. Exceptions allowable for your own sanity and misery mitigation.