Travel Safety For the Holidays
VP of Corporate Development at All Action Alarm
Specialties: Installations for residential and commercial electronic systems. Alarm systems, Local and remote video, Data, cable, and Audio/video.
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If your holiday plans include travel, a hotel stay is likely in your future. The hotel room becomes your “home away from home” and crime is the last thing you want to worry about when vacationing. The following are some tips to keep in mind so that hotel crime will not ruin your vacation:
Hotel Arrival and Check-in
- If you arrive in a bus or cab, stay with your luggage until it is brought into the hotel lobby.
- If you are a woman traveling alone or with small children, take advantage of car valet service in order to avoid the parking lot.
- Keep a close eye on your luggage, purse, etc when checking in. If the lobby is busy, thieves will often take advantage of the distractions to steal your things.
- Ask the front desk personnel not to announce your room number. Rather, tell them to write it down or point to it. You never know who is listening.
- Don’t leave your credit card lying on the check-in counter while you complete your registration.
- Immediately upon check-in, make sure to grab a business card or other item with the hotel name and address on it. Make sure to take it with you when you leave so you know where to come back to. If you get lost, you have the address and phone number handy. There is nothing more frustrating than telling a cab driver to take you to the “Marriott” and they ask which one?? Or if you are in a country where you don’t speak the language, you can simply show a taxi driver the business card, and you’re on your way back to the hotel.
Room Selection
- Maximize safety and security. Select a room located between the 4th and 6th floors. Avoid rooms above the sixth floor as that is the maximum height fire-department ladders can reach.
- Whenever possible, do not accept a hotel room on the ground floor especially if it has doors and windows that open to the outside. Hotels with interior hallways tend to be generally safer. For security in motels, avoid ground floor rooms off the parking lot. If you can’t get a room on a higher level, take one facing the interior courtyard.
Have a Wonderful Safe Vacation!
About All Action Alarm
It’s been many Christmas holidays since we started in 1980 but one thing has not changed – and that is our commitment to the safety of our Long Island community. Contact us today to learn more about life safety solutions from All Action Alarm.
