Usually four and five star hotels ensure the security of their guests. They provide you a safe in the reception area and in your hotel room to secure your valuables. In addition, there are security guards and cameras. But such hotels are not always available in remote locations or are not in everyone’s budget, so its important to take some precautions about your choice of hotels before you lose valuables like money and travel documents. Should you lose your money or documents, you would be stuck and helpless in a new country.
1. Use the hotel safe in your room, if it is available. You should wipe down the touch keys of electronic safes, first with a damp cloth and then with a dry one. This will prevent you from leaving clues about which buttons you selected. In some hotels, staff members have been caught putting oil or powder to capture fingerprints.
2. Never put your valuables in a soft case, even if it has padlocks. These are easy to slice open and even sew up.
3. If you go to the hotel bar and make friends, don’t invite them to your room. Hotel bars are favorite places for conmen to work.
4. Research your choice of hotels before you leave home. You can ask someone who has traveled to the city you are visiting, do an internet search, ask a travel agent, or check online. Sometimes its better to pay more and ensure your safety than to get a bargain deal and end up in a hotel where you can get conned or robbed.
5. If you’re traveling with a dog, then you definitely need to make sure that the hotel you choose accommodates dogs. You don’t want to arrive in a new city and be forced to sleep in your car.
6. If you’re traveling through a new country, pick your hotels and inns before you leave because you don’t want to risk getting stranded in a small town where the single hotel is all booked up.
7. Photocopy all your valuable documents before you leave home so that you can have something to fall back on should you lose them. This includes the front and back of credit cards, passports, airline tickets, and any other important documents.
8. Similarly photograph your jewelry and other valuables so that you can help police identify them should they be lost or stolen.
9. Find out the high crime neighborhoods and don’t get hotels in or near them.
10. Reveal your travel plans, especially the hotels you’ll be staying in to someone before you leave.
This way, they have a way to get in touch with you in the event of an emergency. Additionally, make arrangements for someone to send you money in case of an emergency. If you run out of money in a new country you will be stuck.
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