A hotel safety tip?

[Jazzy]

What is a hotel safety tip everyone should know about?

 

[tango]

Double lock the door whenever you're in the room. Unless you really want a patio area don't stay at ground level if you can help it, and if you must make sure you keep all exterior doors and windows locked.

 

[Jazzy]

Don't get a hotel room in a dangerous neighborhood and don't get one right next to the exit or anywhere but the 3rd-10th floor. Reason being that the exits make it easier for a criminal to escape, and the 1st and 2nd floor make it easy for a burglar to break in through the window. You shouldn't get a room above the 10th floor because most firetrucks only reach 10 stories.

 

[Lamb]

Don't leave your room at night to go to the parking lot for something you forgot. Even with security cameras, you aren't really safe.

 

[tango]

Don't leave your room at night to go to the parking lot for something you forgot. Even with security cameras, you aren't really safe.

I guess that depends on the area the hotel is located and who you are. I'm a 6'4 man so I'm probably a lot less vulnerable to being jumped than a 5'2 woman. That said if somewhere felt like the kind of area I'd need to stay indoors after dark I probably wouldn't want to stay there anyway.

I've always been curious at why people think CCTV keeps them safe. All it means is that someone in a warm office, who may not be geographically anywhere near the actual camera, can see you getting beaten up. Assuming they are even looking at the appropriate screen at the time.

 

[Lamb]

I guess that depends on the area the hotel is located and who you are. I'm a 6'4 man so I'm probably a lot less vulnerable to being jumped than a 5'2 woman. That said if somewhere felt like the kind of area I'd need to stay indoors after dark I probably wouldn't want to stay there anyway.

I've always been curious at why people think CCTV keeps them safe. All it means is that someone in a warm office, who may not be geographically anywhere near the actual camera, can see you getting beaten up. Assuming they are even looking at the appropriate screen at the time.

The reason I brought it up is because we stayed at a hotel on the ground floor (we had a dog who couldn't do steps) and there were 2 cars with their motors running and their headlights shining in our room for 2 hours! My husband went outside at one point thinking it would make them nervous, but they remained and just gave HIM a dirty look. He finally told the front desk and they said they were guests and weren't out there long. Was it a drug deal? Was it something else going on? It was winter so they probably needed the heat on in the car which is why it was running. But wow, that was the worst night we ever spent at a hotel and I'm very glad they didn't have a weapon.

 

[tango]

The reason I brought it up is because we stayed at a hotel on the ground floor (we had a dog who couldn't do steps) and there were 2 cars with their motors running and their headlights shining in our room for 2 hours! My husband went outside at one point thinking it would make them nervous, but they remained and just gave HIM a dirty look. He finally told the front desk and they said they were guests and weren't out there long. Was it a drug deal? Was it something else going on? It was winter so they probably needed the heat on in the car which is why it was running. But wow, that was the worst night we ever spent at a hotel and I'm very glad they didn't have a weapon.

It's a reasonable point. If the hotel said "they weren't there long" I wonder if staff were in on something - if they were guests it would have made more sense to go into the hotel than sit outside in a car for hours. But then if it was a drug deal you'd expect it to be done quickly, unless someone was counting a huge stack of cash.

For myself I always want to stay on the top floor of a hotel, simply because in the past I've had nights where I couldn't get any sleep because it sounded like the room above me was hosting a tap dancing contest or something.

 

[Castle Church]

Lock the chain/slide/bolt - whatever, don't just close the door thinking the auto handle/key card lock will be sufficient. I have been in more than 5 hotel rooms where someone was given the wrong key card and tried to come into the room thinking it was the room they had just checked into; I have been given the wrong key card on several occasions and entered someone's room as well.

 

[Jazzy]

Put something over the peephole a lot of them are backwards and it's on purpose. Or check the peephole when you're outside your room to see if you can see through it.