How Can You Be More Secure In Your Hotel Room When You Travel?

Many professional thieves hang around hotels and resorts, especially the lobbies, looking for tourists and travelers that may be easy pickings. Here are some travel tips that may help you feel safer and more secure in your hotel room when you are traveling on vacation.

Try and book a room that is located on the second, third, fourth, or fifth floors, as ground floor hotel rooms are easier to break in to. You should always keep in mind that rooms located above the fifth floor may not be easily accessible by many fire engine ladders if a fire breaks out in your hotel.

Always check to make sure that the door to your room locks properly, and that the windows and sliding doors open, but also lock securely.

It may not be a good idea to hang a “please clean the room” sign on the door knob when you go out, as it signals to a would be thief that there is probably no one in the room.

It is advisable to not give out your room number to anyone that you don’t know and trust.

There are small, battery-operated, motion-sensitive, burglar alarms that can be hung on the inside hotel door knob, or there are wedge-shaped alarms that you can wedge under the door that will accomplish the same thing. If someone tries to open the hotel room door, the alarm will go off.

Two less sophisticated methods you could use are to move a chair in front of the hotel door, or to wedge a standard rubber door stopper under the door. Both of these methods are also effective.

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