Hotel Tips

Hotel Tips - The Hotel you’re staying, especially the four and five star category is normally highly safe; providing you with a safe in the room and at the reception area. There will be security guards and cameras around the place.

However, there are still things do occasionally disappear, sometimes without the owner ever knowing that they have gone.

So here are some tips to avoid your valued possessions from taking a walk:

Hotel Tips - If the hotel has an in room safe use it and keep all your valuables in there. If the safe is electronic, wipe the touch keys down before operating it with a damp cloth, and then dry it before entering your secret code. Try to do this every time you use the safe.

Also after you have keyed in your code and closed the door firmly and locked the safe, press all the other keys / numbers that do not make up your code, and press them firmly. Doing this may set off a small alarm from the safe but it stops quickly and no one will pay any attention. The reason of doing this is because certain hotels have caught their own hotel staff placing, a light oil residue or powder on to the touch keys that shows them when using a certain light what numbers were pressed. They were managing to open the safe; imagine one very clever thief was taking very little amount, maybe only 1 or 2 US$ UK£ from each room. Would you have noticed? It is not a lot but in a 400 or 500 room hotel the guy was doing quite well for himself.

Never leave valuables in soft / material bags with pockets even if they are padlocked, this avoids any potential of somebody simply splitting the pocket with a knife

Never get drunk and invite a stranger to your room. This seems funny, indeed, but better safe than sorry.