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Hotel Room Safes.

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Calendargirl Wed 10-Jun-26 06:54:03

Do you use the safe when staying in a hotel?

Or do you wonder if others have access to it and could go in, photocopy passport details for example, and you would be none the wiser?

Or do I read too many crime novels?

Astitchintime Wed 10-Jun-26 07:00:19

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.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 10-Jun-26 07:00:42

Always use the safe.

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

MartavTaurus Wed 10-Jun-26 07:09:52

Always.

J52 Wed 10-Jun-26 07:56:50

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.

Jaxjacky Wed 10-Jun-26 07:59:31

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

Primrose53 Wed 10-Jun-26 08:21:24

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.

anna7 Wed 10-Jun-26 08:34:14

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.

Visgir1 Wed 10-Jun-26 08:34:45

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.

Witzend Wed 10-Jun-26 08:40:13

We use hotel safes if they’re operated by a personal code you set yourself, much like the padlock I use for my locker when I go swimming.

LOUISA1523 Wed 10-Jun-26 08:42:01

I don't use a safe....take my passport everywhere

ClicketyClick Wed 10-Jun-26 08:42:44

On the second day of a holiday the safe wouldn't open. Maintenance sorted it and it confirmed that X staff have access to safes. On a different holiday I realised that my money was about 100 euros down but how do you prove someone has been in your safe? Now I do certain things with the safe contents which would tell me the safe had been accessed by a 3rd party. It's either use the safe or carry your passport etc around with you so still use the safe.