Hotel Security Tips
Simple & Easy Tips to Stay Safe In A Hotel
Hotel Security is not something most of us think about when traveling, in many cases we just assume that the hotel will provide security & there is no reason to take precaustions (to take actions, in order to prevent something), and this is usually true, but remmber the security can't be everywhere 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Here are some simple & easy ways to keep you safer while travling.
Don't Open Your Door
Don't Open your door to repair men, housekeeping, room service etc. If you someone clams to be from the hotel staff, then call the front desk to find out if this person is really from the hotel staff, remember uniforms are easy to get, and just because someone is wearing a uniform it don't mean that they are really from the hotel staff.
Room Key
- Make sure your room key doesn't have the room number on the key.
- Keep your hotel key in your bag or pocket, in a place that people can't see your key. It is not a good idea to advertise which hotel you are staying at, the same way you don't tell everyone your home address.
- Don't leave your hotel key in the door, even for a second to get ice, check something etc, someone could steal your key (it only takes a second, to steal a key) and then they can break into your room to steal or even attack you.
- Leave your key near your bed. In case of an emergency, you might need your key to get back into your room and/or to lock your room.
Hotel Doors & Windows
- Bring with you a "rubber stopper" (a little piece of rubber that you is used to keep a door open), usually the "rubber stopper" is used to keep the door open, but in this case use it to keep the door closes, or at least make it harder for someone to open the door.
- Double lock the door to your hotel room.
- Chain lock - if there is a chain on the door, then twist the chain, so that there is no slack on the chain.
- Don't leave the door open when leaving the hotel room even for a second,(even just to go down the hall or to the next room), remember you don't know who is going to sneak in your room.
- Check sliding doors & connection doors make sure they are locked securely. If there is a door that connects between 2 rooms, then make sure that door is also locked.
Room Location - the location of your room might not seem very important, but think again.
- Ask for a room near the elevator, and not near the fire exit or stairs, becasue the the fire exit or stairs it is very easy to get away, and possably with your stuff.
- If your room is near the elevator there are a lot of people around, which makes it safer. If you are afraid of the noise, then brink a MP3 with speakers that work on electricy and record a water fall, or wind or somthing common natural noise.
- Don't take a room higher then the 6th floor, I know the view is unbelivable. Depending on the country & the fire service it could be almost impossable or very difficult to get you out in case of a fire, the reason for this is there are fire departments that don't have ladders that reach past the 6th floor.
- Don't take on the ground floor unless you need to because of phyical challanges, because it is easier for thevies to brake into hotel rooms on the ground floor. If you do stay at a hotel on the ground floor, make sure you check all the windows in your room, including the bathroom, to make sure the windows are locked.
- Don't give anyone your room number. If you meet someone then met them in the lobby or even better yet some place public even in a diffrent hotel.
- When the you receive your key, tell the person at the desk to write down your room numberand to hand you the key, you don't want anyone to flollow you to your room.
I know some of these tips are just common sense, and others might sound down and out stupid, but remmber the last thing I think you want is to be robbed or attcked while you are on vacation, busniess, it is better to be safe, then sorry.
