Hotel Room Safes.

We use them. Once ours wouldn't open - no hitting or trying a different code sorted as it, as it locked out after too many attempts.
Hotel manager had the overriding code to open it.

I use the safe and I don't worry about it. I only take a very small amount of cash. I thinks cards are much safer these days.

Those hotel safes are pretty useless. They can be opened with just a smart bash as we found out when ours got jammed.

A neighbour of mine hid a lot of euro notes (family of 6) under a carpet in their hotel room and that was discovered and stolen. That was in Gran Canaria.

I’ve always used them, ne er worried about it.

I always use the safe, I avoid booking a hotel without a room safe, if possible.
It’s not common in the UK and I’ve often hidden valuables in my car during the day when I wouldn’t be in the room.

Always.

Always use the safe.

If someone desperately wants to do as you suggest, they will find away wherever you hide your valuables.

In the absence of a safe I lock all our documents in a suitcase…,..yes, I know, the case could be stolen!

It is a risk we take with valuables though. Whenever there’s a safe, and normally they are the key code variety, I do use it. Obviously there’s a master code otherwise the hotel manager/cruise purser wouldn’t be able to open a safe that a customer had left in the lock position. Therefore, we simply have to trust that no one would access and copy documents or steal valuables. I guess that sealing them in a package might deter this as it would be obvious that it had been tampered with.