- Safeguard your room
When checking in at your hotel, take a few precautions to ensure safety. Make sure other travelers around you do not hear your room number. In many cases, the hotel clerk will not say what room you're in, and will instead discreetly write the room number on your key envelope. If your room number is loudly announced and you don't feel comfortable, request a change to a different room.
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- Make copies of everything
It's a simple rule, but a wise one: When traveling anywhere, it's smart to make copies of your passport, travel itinerary and tickets, credit cards, driver's license, and other pertinent paperwork. This can save hours of headaches should your bags get lost or stolen.
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- Ten Tips Consumers Should Practice to Protect Their Personal Data While on Vacation
* Bring travelers checks--Leave personal checks at home
* Only bring the credit cards you intend to use and never use your debit card as a credit card while traveling
* Write down the phone numbers of the credit cards your using in case you lose them or they're stolen
* Limit your exposure by removing anything from your wallet or purse that you won't need while on vacation
* Use Hotel registered Wi-Fi or land lines and don't access web sites that contain your personal financial data or other confidential information
* Avoid carrying large amounts of cash and use traveler's checks when possible
* Exchange currency before you travel
* If using an ATM, use the one(s) located inside, not outside of a building
* Keep all receipts
* When you return from a trip, be sure to review all banking and credit card statements thoroughly
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- When registering, use a last name and first initial
Don’t use Mr., Mrs., titles or degrees. The less information about you and your gender or status, the less information a criminal will have.
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- Try not to say a room number in public
If a desk clerk announces aroom number and people are in the room, ask for another room. They should write the number down or point to it on a map, not say it out loud. Once a thief hears a room number and maybe a name, everything is easy. They can find you; watch you and maybe even charge things to your room. Ever just been asked for a room number at the hotel restaurant?
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- Take a couple hotel business cards
Put one by the phone in the room, and one in a wallet or car. You may need to tell someone where you are or ask for directions to get back to the hotel.
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- Check the locks on your rooms
You should have deadbolts and peepholes. Also check the windows and interconnecting doors to see how they open and how they lock.
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- Take a wood wedge or buy a small portable alarm wedge
Take a wood wedge or buy a small portable alarm wedge to put under your door when everyone is inside your room. The door will not open, even if smashed.
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- Interior rooms are safer compared to outside rooms
Interior rooms are safer compared to outside rooms. Criminals can't monitor your activities as easily.
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- If you have a balcony, check out the door accessing it and the railings
If you have a balcony, check out the door accessing it and the railings. Make sure your child can't climb up onto the edge of the balcony.
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