Hotel Room Safes.

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.

Always use the safe.

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

Always.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.