When Checking into Your Hotel Room
After checking into a room, examine the following:
1. Examine the guest room lock and be sure it is functioning properly.
2. All windows and outside doors are checked to insure they lock and operate properly.
3. The telephone is checked and you know how to make a outside call.
4. The closets and bathrooms are checked to make sure no one is hiding.
5. The lock on the adjoining door is checked to insure it is locked and works.
6. When you enter your hotel room, make sure the door closes securely and that the deadbolt works. Keep the deadbolt and safety bar on at all time. It cannot be stressed enough that you should never prop your hotel room door open. Anyone could walk in.
7. Look for information in room about fire safety and read to become familiar with nearest fire exit / stairway. Locate nearest fire exit. Find one at each end of the
hallway. How many doors away? Does the door open easily? Are the exit signs
illuminated? If the lights are out, be helpful and contact the front desk to let them
know. Is the stairwell clear of debris? Make a note on the back of the business card
that you place by your bed noting the number of doors away to the emergency exit,
in each direction, and the location of the fire extinguisher and fire pull box.
8. Never leave your key in the lock inside your room.
9. If you receive a phone call to your room and the person states they are with the hotel and need to come to your room and repair something, use caution. Always get the employees name and call the front desk to verify that it was a legitimate employee who called you and they do in fact need to come to your room. Some criminals are known to where hotel uniforms or pose a plainclothes security. The best bet is to be your own security guard. No matter how effective hotel security is, it can't think of everything.
10. If you want to test the hotel, call the switchboard from a house phone and ask for yourself. Tell the operator you are not sure of the room number. If the answer is, "She's in room 203," this is not a good sign. The correct answer is, "I'll connect you." Good security requires that the hotel switchboard not give out room numbers and the best hotels strictly adhere to this policy.
11. The door to your room must never be opened by anyone unless the guest is absolutely known.
12. If you have to leave the room in a hurry due to an emergency, you won't have time to be searching for your key. Also, you'll need the key to get back into the room.
13. Place your room key in the same place every time, preferably close to the bed.
14. When inside a hotel room, for whatever length of time always use the deadbolt. If the room does not a dead bolt or heavy-duty security clasp but has a chain, twist it to take up the slack before latching it.
2009-10-12
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