How Hotel's Safes are Safe for You? Use Them or Lose Them?

These days, with the rise in competition Hotels industries, provide complete safety to all their guests. To meet this, they take all the necessary safety measures to ensure the security of the guests and their belongings. However, Hotel safes are one of them. Hotel safes are the strongboxes or we can say a mini locker with a lock that helps the traveler to need not to carry their precious stuff whenever they on sightseeing trip during your stay. The most important question, however, is security. Is hotels In-room safes truly safe?

Size and Portability

The first factor is to consider is the size and portability of the safe. Most hotel safes are about the size of desktop radio or video cassette recorder that easily accommodates your valuable property like Jewelry, photographs, documents, and cash. The best part of In-room safes is that they are quite small, portable, and made up of a strong and solid body that impenetrable by drilling and cannot be cut by hacksaws. This doesn’t mean that stealing a hotel room safe is an easy feat, but it is a consideration.

Electronic Access Codes

Most safe hotel safes are drawer safe and are electronic. There are no keys; guests need to select any entry code on their own and the program of these in-room safes starts work. Moreover, when the guest checks out of the hotel, their safe code is reset; the next patrons to use it must also choose a personal access code if they wish to store property in the safe. Electronic security codes are the fantastic feature because they make hotel room safes much harder to “crack” than lockboxes that use standard keys. However, in some cases, patrons forget the electronic passcode and therefore cannot retrieve it for stymied patrons. In such cases, they can notify the hotel management, who will summon the Hotel Manager to open the safe and retrieve the contents with the Management’s Master Code.

Beware of Default Access Codes

Sometimes, hotel electronic safes come from the factory programmed with a default access code such as “123456” or “0000” or another string of numbers that’s easy to remember. Guests must read all directions thoroughly and ensure that they have erased this standardized code and set up their own; otherwise, the safe will be very easy to open for anyone familiar with electronic hotel safes. For increased security, guests should pick a code that will be difficult to guess for others.

Planning for Success

Hence, it is advisable that not to carry all the valuable stuff while traveling. Only carry essentials that are required. It will minimize your risk while traveling. Moreover, you can some of your valuable stuff with you. For example, you can carry cash and a couple of credit cards with you in an interior zippered jacket pocket, but leave the rest of your wallet in the drawer safe. Carry your camera, but leave the memory card you used yesterday—the one with all your precious family photos from your vacation so far—in the safe. This will help you saving your belonging while traveling- whether you are going sightseeing or staying in a hotel.