subject: How To Stay Safe When Staying In A Hotel [print this page] Whether you are travelling for fun or for business, it can be daunting as well as exciting to be in a different city. However, when you are travelling, you can be at risk for becoming a victim of crime. Following certain safety precautions, you can maintain your personal safety both at home and when you travel and stay in a hotel or resort.
An obvious step in staying safe no matter where you are is to learn some sort of self defense. This is getting easier and easier these days, with different options available all over the world. There is martial arts self defense such as Krav Maga or Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Many people never look at martial arts self defense because they assume that martial arts are typically for sport. This can be true. If you wanted to consider this as self defense, you would have to be sure and study a form specifically for street fighting.
There is also military self defense; which is highly popular and has been for longer than many people know. Military self defense dates way back to WWII, when soldiers had to fight with their hands or silent weapons in close quarters. Special Forces, especially, would employ military self defense tactics to get in and out of their local quickly and safely.
Regardless of the type of self defense learned (even if its not military self defense or martial arts self defense); learning some form is the ultimate way to ensure you can maintain your safety at all times.
When you check into your hotel, do so without much ado; this means, do not announce your hotel room number. This is especially important for women to remember. Women stand a much higher chance of being followed or met at their room should the number get out. You could go one step further and dress down when you check in to your hotel as well. If you dont look like you have anything to steal, you become less of a target. If you walk in with your computer case over your shoulder and your expensive watch shining on your wrist, chances increase that anyone casing the place will target you.
Rooms that face open areas such as parking lots are more vulnerable to break-ins than rooms located on the interior of a hotel. When you book a room in a foreign city, ask for a room tucked inside the hotel building, not facing the parking lot. If, when you arrive, you have been placed in an outlying room; ask to have the room changed if possible.
Once you arrive in your room, lock the door and keep it locked. Most hotels feature a door lock as well as some form of a chain or bar lock. Keeping both locked while you are in the room is the ultimate way to maintain your safety. If you leave your room for any reason, even a quick run to the ice machine, lock the door behind you. Leaving your room open invites danger in.
