Safety Tips To Consider When Selecting A Hotel Accommodation

Whether you are traveling for business or adventure, you need to consider your safety as a priority because you can only live once, and you shouldn’t waste time making mistakes.

There are several things that can put you in danger and thus you must avoid them. If you want to travel and stay safe during your trip, the following tips will benefit you when choosing a hotel.

1. Before your trip, copy your airline tickets, passports and other identification material, credit cards, and other relevant documents. Retain a copy of these items in a safe place.

2. When you travel, choose a room that has modern electronic locks installed in the rooms. Most of these electronic locks change the combination automatically with every new guest reservation, and there is little chance that someone can have a duplicate key to your room. In case you lose or misplace your key, request for a replacement immediately from the management.

3. Check for fire sprinklers and smoke detectors in the guest rooms, hallways and conference rooms. If these are not installed in every room, they should at least be installed in the hallway.

4. The guest rooms should have a telephone that can make outside calls. But guest phones placed in lobbies and hallways should not be allowed to make direct calls to the rooms. And if anyone would like to call the room, the person should ask for the guest name and not the room number.

5. Ensure that the locks on the windows and adjoining rooms are secure

6. The hotel grounds, parking structures, and hallways should be well-lit.

7. If there are elevators in the parking garage, they should not lead directly to the guest floors. Instead, they should lead to the lobby.

8. Ask if the hotel personnel are trained for guest security and if they are available on request as escorts to the rooms and parking lot.

9. Check whether the hotel is located in an area with high crime rate, especially when you are traveling overseas. You can find this information at the US Embassy Resident Security Officers in the destination country. They can also alert you to which areas of the city to avoid.

10. When you arrive at the hotel, remain with your luggage until it is safely brought into the lobby.

11. When you are checking into the hotel, watch your purse and luggage keenly.

12. Observe the lobby well. If it is very busy, thieves often take advantage of such a situation to steal your property and so you need to have a third eye on you.

13. If you are staying in old-style rooms with the guest room doors that still use the traditional metal key, observe how the hotel handles the keys. If you find a pile of keys lying on the front desk, then probably the hotel is not very keen about your security.

But if the hotel uses electronic key cards, this should not be a huge concern to you. If the room numbers are embossed on the metal key and they are lying around carelessly, you may have something to worry about.

When you travel to a destination, especially if you are new, you need to be assured that you are safe. Most hotels will take many measures to make sure that you are safe.

But if the above checklist is not entirely taken care of, you may have to reconsider your reservations and move to the next hotel. It is better to be safe than sorry. If you are looking for good hotel deals, remember to check Hipmunk.com for affordable hotels in Paris.

This post was provided by Fiona Moriarty of Hipmunk, a travel website that helps you to locate the best deals on transportation, accommodations, and more.