Lusty Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 Your out on the Razz in the Land of Smiles and all your Credit Cards,tickets,passports and spare cash are locked in your in roof safe and eveything is nice and secure. Think again! These are just two examples of unauthorised entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 Never used a hotel safe in the decades or travel in Thailand Southeast Asia. But I rarely have anything of value. Money is hidden in toe of my shoes. No one ever looks there, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Never used a hotel safe in the decades or travel in Thailand Southeast Asia. But I rarely have anything of value. Money is hidden in toe of my shoes. No one ever looks there, right? Fair enough, but I dont think that will work for my hi-fi spending spree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Getting back to the vid, my experience has always been that 'locks only keep honest people out'. That said, any member of the hotel staff silly enough to start breaking into safes / taking wallets from rooms etc has to know that their days are numbered, so that leaves us with working girls. Katoeys aside, I just dont believe the majority of the girls are bright enough to even try to get into a hotel safe - I havent read a single report of anyone being ripped off in that fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specialist Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 I've never seen a safe with the mechanical "doorknob" dials that these use in the hotels I've stayed in in Bangkok. All of the ones I've seen use motorized locking pins. The only time I've seen an in-room hotel digital safe go through a code reset procedure, it took a special tool, that looked like a radio programmer, to do it. (That was at Royal Benja some years ago.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Getting back to the vid, my experience has always been that 'locks only keep honest people out'. That said, any member of the hotel staff silly enough to start breaking into safes / taking wallets from rooms etc has to know that their days are numbered, so that leaves us with working girls. Katoeys aside, I just dont believe the majority of the girls are bright enough to even try to get into a hotel safe - I havent read a single report of anyone being ripped off in that fashion. Me either. In my days with embassies I never heard of this from a "visitor." Unless you pas out dead drunk, they dont have the time. I have heard of staff going through safes, but like you said, they dont last long and esp in places like BKK they will never work again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 The only time I've seen an in-room hotel digital safe go through a code reset procedure, it took a special tool, that looked like a radio programmer, to do it. (That was at Royal Benja some years ago.) I lost the key to one once, they had to get a bloke with a drill about 1" in diameter and about 1' long to drill the f**k out of the lock for 20 minutes. My passport was inside you see.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Yo Coss - how bad is Laos for property crime ? I read something on a Cambo expat board that claimed that getting broken into in PP (private dwellings, not hotels) was a matter of 'when', not 'if'. Not terribly encouraging, but given the poverty level not entirely unexpected. Havent read anything similar about VT or anywhere else in Laos - like all things, I guess you dont really know till you live in a town for a few months at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Yo Coss - how bad is Laos for property crime ? I read something on a Cambo expat board that claimed that getting broken into in PP (private dwellings, not hotels) was a matter of 'when', not 'if'. Not terribly encouraging, but given the poverty level not entirely unexpected. Havent read anything similar about VT or anywhere else in Laos - like all things, I guess you dont really know till you live in a town for a few months at least. In regard to PP and Siem Reap I have read the same. If you own a stereo and other stuff in PP you'll need secure your place very well, but even this won't help 100%. I wonder if they already have secure housing areas for Farangs in PP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 I expect that it's the same as anywhere - money buys you security at the front door, but it hasnt stopped the more determined crooks here so I have no reason to believe that it will be any different in Cambo. At least the Cambodians have a survival situation behind their larceny - our local scum are just born bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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