Travel expert reveals VERY clever safety tips
A travel risk expert has shared a series of clever safety tips to foil thieves and reduce your risk of harm on your next holiday – beginning with what hotel floors are the best and safest to stay on.
Lloyd Figgins, the CEO of UK-based Travel Risk and Incident Prevention Group, believes that staying between the second and fourth floors in a hotel is the safest course, particularly in the case of a fire.
"(The) biggest thing that is overlooked is the risk of fire," Figgins, a former soldier, told The Sun Online Travel.
"Make sure you are staying between the second and fourth stories of the hotel because fire department ladders rarely reach above the fourth story."
He also said that anything below the second floor of a hotel is a potential target for thieves.
Figgins, the author of The Travel Survival Guide said travellers should also avoid revealing their room number out loud while within the hotel.
He said guests should ask reception staff to write their hotel room number down instead of saying it out loud when checking in.
The reason behind this is because “hotels attract criminals” who often pose as other guests in hotel lobbies and other common areas.
"They are looking for people checking in alone because they can hear what room they are allocated — the receptionist says they are in room 301, for example," he said.
He said that when potential thieves see a solo traveller in a hotel bar or common area, they know the room is empty and use this time to strike.
Figgins also suggested that people travel with door stops or makeshift locks to keep their possessions safe when on holidays.
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