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Post by sprite on Jan 18, 2024 11:47:06 GMT -5
I'd love to use the shoe trick, but the last few safes I used would never fit a shoe. the toiletries bag is a good one, although I'm so soulessly efficient on most trips that I've used a ziplock baggie.
I know that in theory the hotel staff could break in, but in that case it's a lot easier to pinpoint who to blame for a theft, rather than wonder which person on which street pickpocketed me. But I've also learned that in some places you need a photocopy of your passport to leave with reception--they need it to show to possible inspectors, and that feels safer than leaving my passport at the desk where it's often just in a box under the computer!
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Post by rikita on Jan 24, 2024 18:12:12 GMT -5
many years ago when i worked at a hostel/hotel reception, our safe (big one near the reception, not a small one in a room) stopped working. it was a friday evening (so in the company that had delivered the safe no one could be reached until monday morning), it was pretty late, it was quite stressful with the phone constantly ringing and a long line of people there, and there was this guy who urgently needed his passport because he was about to leave, and i wasn't working there long yet and had no idea what i could do ... ended up calling the manager, who was out partying, but i didn't know what else to do. he didn't, either, but happened to be out with the manager of another hotel, who had encountered the problem before, and there was some trick, something with a battery, don't remember details, but he or the other manager had to come to bring the battery that was needed for opening the safe ... and even though it wasn't my fault, it felt a bit like it was ...
on a different day, i lost the master key - but i never informed the manager of that (as a colleague had once made a copy of the master key for just such an occasion and brought it to me) ...
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 24, 2024 18:17:00 GMT -5
Oh boy that sounds stressful!
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Post by sprite on Jan 25, 2024 7:22:17 GMT -5
Riki, it sounds like you made the right call. That's a really tricky problem to solve for any employee who isn't the manager.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2024 15:15:44 GMT -5
when tzar was writing for the pointsguy, we stayed @ a posh london hotel & left our passports in the safe when we were checking out. they went to the room & retrieved them for us.
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