| Travelling comes with its own dangers even if you're | | | | Install alarms and other security gadgets to prevent |
| staying at a five-star hotel. Here are several hotel | | | | unauthorized access and break-ins to your room. |
| security tips you should keep in mind the next time | | | | Besides doors and windows, vents in your ceiling may |
| you go out of town. | | | | also be another way to get into your room so be |
| Surveillance | | | | sure to fortify these as well. |
| Don't rely on the security system of the hotel. Who | | | | Hotel Security Tips against Employees with Ill Intent |
| knows if the management is in cahoots with potential | | | | Again, you need to be on your guard against even |
| intruders of your room? Set up your own surveillance | | | | the individuals in the hotel's employ. Hotel-issued keys |
| system in your room. | | | | are not enough. Use manual locks and practice |
| Start by performing a bug sweep. This may seem | | | | common sense. Consider the tips below. |
| paranoid, but if you believe that there is great | | | | Do not allow housekeeping or any other hotel |
| interest in what you have stored in your hotel room | | | | employee inside your room if you are not present. |
| then there's nothing to lose and everything to gain | | | | Inform hotel management about this to ensure that |
| with this action. There are also other detectors you | | | | your room remains safe and secure. |
| may use to determine presence and location of | | | | Never leave your room unlocked or unattended. It |
| hidden cameras. | | | | only takes a few seconds to create a huge amount |
| If you are completely assured that your hotel room | | | | of trouble if you know what you're doing. |
| is secured, the next thing to do is putting it under | | | | If someone requests entry to your room and |
| surveillance. Install wireless, battery-operated hidden | | | | identifies himself as an employee of the hotel, double |
| cameras in strategic locations. Toss in a decoy | | | | check their identity with hotel management. If you |
| camera or two to mislead potential intruders. | | | | have not made any request for their services, |
| Make sure your cameras are web-ready to allow | | | | chances are hotels won't take the initiative to send |
| remote and online access your surveillance system. | | | | an employee to your quarters as they are entirely |
| Do not set up your DVR system in your hotel room | | | | too busy for such fuss. Last but not the least, |
| as this will obviously give you away. Set it up | | | | remember that a uniform does not an official |
| somewhere else and make sure that you will never | | | | employee make. |
| run out of disk space. | | | | |