We provide you with amazing hotel suggestions all the time – like all the famous ones you’ve seen in movies, ones with the best rooftops around the world, the best for business across Canada, and even ones that don’t exist yet.
But once you arrive at the hotel, it’s up to you to make sure you live to Instagram about it.
While it’s an unsexy thought compared to, say, how many pieces of furniture can be fornicated upon, you shouldn’t completely check out when it comes to hotel safety.
You’re more likely to be killed in your hotel room than you are by a shark, after all. (Which is true about basically everything). For example, did you know they’re hosting exorcisms in hotels these days?
That’s why former CIA operative and fellow good samaritan Drew Dwyer has drawn on his hotel experiences around the world to put together a 9-point safety checklist that everyone can apply in order to make sure your getaway is more Cabo than Kabul:
- Acquire or make a copy of the fire escape plan on the back of your door. Most of these just slide out.
- Do not stay on the ground or the top floor. The ground floor is readily accessible to intruders and the top floor does not allow any room to maneuver. The first or second (European) floors allow access for most third world country emergency vehicles.
- Keep the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door, even when you are not there.
- Always assume the room is bugged. Keep the radio or TV turned on with the volume on low at all times — even when you are not in the room.
- Keep the drapes/blinds pulled at all times, even when unoccupied.
- Keep a light on in the room when unoccupied.
- Keep a small “bug-out bag” packed with must-have items (money, ID, passport, etc.) in the event of an emergency departure.
- Carry a motion alarm that can be placed over the doorknob. They are about $20 and can be found in most electronics stores.
- Keep a flashlight next to the bed and within arm’s reach.
Ok, so maybe a few are a little extreme – but it’s probably better to consider the advice of a man who’s participated in clandestine operations across five continents over the past decade and recently wrote about who would win a new world war like it’s a college basketball tournament (complete with bracket!) than to consider none at all.
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