So here are a few tips
to avoid your valued possessions from taking a walk
Hotels, especially of
the four and five star category are normally extremely safe; providing you with
a safe in the room and at the reception area, security guards hiding around the
place, and cameras that can be as much your friend as your enemy . However
still things do occasionally disappear, sometimes without the owner ever
knowing that they have gone.
So here are a few tips
to avoid your valued possessions from taking a walk:
If the hotel has an in
room safe use it and keep all your valuables in there. However, 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. When researching accommodations or looking on sites like Otel.com
cheap hotel it will indicate if a safe is in the room.
However, 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 locked on 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 to do 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, and one
very clever thief was taking only 1 or 2 US$ 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 like Alcatrass
This avoids any
potential of somebody simply splitting a seam to a pocket with a knife and
removing select contents. This has happened to one of our friends and he never
even noticed until he went into the and bag and pocket a while later.
This should also apply
to luggage that you check into the airplane.
Never get drunk and
invite a stranger to your room. This seems funny, indeed, but better safe than
sorry.