What to do if your hotel doesn t have a safe?

Lock your suitcase, and use a small chain to secure it to a piece of furniture. “Locks are made to keep honest people honest,” Coffey says. “They're easy to break open. But if it's an internal employee, they won't want to leave evidence behind.” You could also leave your luggage with the front desk if you're concerned.



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Hotels can be held legally responsible for injuries that their guests suffer under premises liability laws. A hotel assumes a duty of care to its guests because they have invited you onto their premises. While the hotel cannot prevent each and every single injury, they must act as a reasonable hotel owner would.

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Hotel safes typically have an override code that is usually set to 1234, 1111, 9999, 0000, 123456, 000000, 111111, or 999999 by default.

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Add avoiding rooms on the first and second floor to your hotel safety checklist, as these are the areas most prone to crime. Rooms on the 3rd-6th floors are ideal. Not only is there typically less crime on these floors, but in the event of an emergency, you can quickly get downstairs and evacuate the building.

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I suppose Karma made a visit and I should have just gone to the front desk… Most hotels do have a policy that forbids housekeeping from letting someone into their room, but a little pleading, such as I did, can go along way. Unfortunately, as I learned hotel thefts are all too common and happen even in the best hotels.

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Yes, a hotel can tell if you are actually in the room. Hotels use key cards to track when guests enter and exit their rooms. When a guest swipes their card at the door, it registers with the hotel's system that they have entered or exited the room.

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Can hotel maids open the safe? Hotel housekeepers should not have direct access to your safe (that should be reserved for management) so this means that placing items in your safe should at the very least make your items harder to steal from housekeeping.

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Most travel experts recommend storing at least some of your cash, a backup credit card, and your passport in a bag inside the hotel safe, but even those aren't 100% secure and the hotel usually can't be held liable for theft.

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Ever wonder what would happen if you forgot the code you set to the hotel safe? Well, most hotels either have a master code or a key for when that happens. The problem, though, is that most hotel employees have access to the code/key and can easily gain entry to your hotel room.

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You can leave the card keys in the room, or at the front desk when you leave. BUT, to be sure that there are not charges added to your bill that may not be correct, it is always wise to ask for a final bill as you leave.

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A lot of hotel safe models' default codes are as simple as “0000” or “000000.” Other popular codes include “1-2-3-4” or “1-2-3-4-5-6.”

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As a general rule, sympathizing with a guest that claims something is lost or stolen should always be your first response. Even if things get tense, if a guest claims you stole their priceless item for example, never indicate to the guest that you believe they are lying. Take their claim seriously and follow up.

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