Baby, is your hotel safe?

When you go out to stay in a hotel, you really need to pay attention to safety. Otherwise, not only may you encounter unnecessary disturbance, but your personal safety will also be threatened.

Some people think that paying attention to safety means not to open the door to strangers casually after check-in, but in fact, from booking a hotel, choosing a room, and then after check-in, many links need to improve safety awareness.

When booking a hotel, many people will say that well-known chain hotels are preferred, and unified management is highly secure, but chain brands do not mean that 100% is safe.

But I suggest that we should look at the location first and try to book a hotel in a busy area.

You may think that there are many people in the bustling area, but in fact, there are more monitoring and security measures in the bustling area, and the hotels here will strengthen security measures because of the large flow of people, which is better than the security in the deserted area.

Depending on the year of the hotel, choose new or newly renovated.

Generally, many people look at the age limit to see whether the hotel's living facilities are good or not, but in fact, the decoration can also reflect that the hotel's various security hardware is in place, more cameras will be installed, more advanced access control systems will be installed, and more perfect personnel management will be achieved.

It is best to choose a hotel that swipes the card into the gate and takes the elevator to ensure that no outsiders come in except guests. Check the hotel, official website. If not specified, you can call customer service.

After choosing a hotel, you have to choose a room. Try to choose the room in the middle of each floor, near the escape route, rather than the room at the end of the corridor.

Because the general hotel is often a "dead end" between the head and the tail, you may have to run to the other side of the corridor to go downstairs when you escape.

You can look at the floor plan of each floor and choose a room near the stairs. Pay attention to the stairs instead of the elevator.

If you are on a business trip alone, try not to let strangers know that you are here alone.

When you check in, if the front desk asks if you are alone, you can say, "I arrived first, and my colleague will arrive in a few hours."

When you enter the room, don't be busy packing. I suggest you check the door locks and window locks first to see if they can be locked normally.

If you find the door locked, you can open it from the outside and contact the front desk to change rooms.

Immediately after check-in, send the hotel address, room number and hotel phone number to your family, or send photos inside and outside the hotel together.

Not only to report safety, but also to ensure that if anything happens, your family will know where you are and help the police to provide information immediately. .

As a reminder, if the hotel door is locked with chains, you must hang the chains when you lock the door before going to bed at night!

Don't underestimate this chain. In case someone wants to break in from the outside, they can buy you time.

I recommend a useful gadget: door opener. Before going to bed at night, put it under the door and push the door from the inside to prevent someone from hitting the door and increase safety.

There are many kinds of door lifts. I recommend one with alarm function. If someone pushes the door from the outside, it will sound a loud alarm and wake you up in time.

If you think it's too much trouble to take the door opener, I suggest you lock the door twice, using the lock, chain lock or mortise lock, and then lean a heavy suitcase against the corner of the door, which can also prevent the door from opening to some extent.

What if someone knocks at the door in the middle of the night? Don't panic, don't answer yet, get up and look through the cat's eye on the door. If there is no one in the cat's eye range, don't open it, because you don't know how many people are outside. If the knocking time is long, contact the hotel in time. If the hotel can't handle it, consider calling the police.

If you see the hotel waiter knocking at the door through the cat's eye, I suggest you not open the door directly.

General room service has strict time requirements. If you knock at the wrong time, don't open the door. Ask each other's name and work number through the door, and call the front desk. Ask questions through the door and record them.

As for video recording, as candid camera has become an industry, it has now become an increasingly serious problem.

There is a rumor on the internet: "shoot with a mobile phone camera in a dark room without lights. If there is a bright spot, it means there may be a camera. Because the camera emits infrared light that is invisible to the naked eye. "

The accuracy of this method is not high, because most pinhole cameras don't emit infrared light now, and some mobile phone lenses have filters, even if there is infrared light, it will be filtered out and can't be photographed.

Others will say, "Even if there is a camera, you can't shoot it when you turn off the lights." But it's not that simple. Because the current pinhole cameras are all high-definition night vision, they can shoot clearly even if the lights are turned off.

If you want to check the camera, you should first check around the bed. Focus on checking the lighting facing the bed. The light is high and blocked by light, which many people will ignore.

There are also fixed sockets facing the bed, TV set-top boxes, routers and smoke alarms on the ceiling. Some of these items have their own flashlights, which are easily overlooked.

Some cameras will be disguised as small things and placed around the bed, such as lighters and pens. If you see these things on the bedside table, it is recommended to put them in the drawer.

There is another place, although it is far from the bed, but it is easy to photograph the bed from the front or side, so we should also pay attention to it. For example, the bed is far from the door, but it is facing the door, and there is a mirror or decorative painting hanging behind the door, so it needs to be checked. Similarly, there are green plants on balconies, cracks in sofas and other places.

Toilets and bathrooms should be specially inspected, especially near the shelf where shower gel is placed, near the shower nozzle and facing the toilet. Things like soap boxes and hooks may be disguised as cameras.

The bathroom should also pay special attention to the mirror. If it is a double mirror, there may be a camera hidden behind it. You can poke your finger in the mirror to see if there is a gap between your finger and the mirror image of your finger. If there is a gap, it is an ordinary mirror, safe. No gap is a double mirror, which is dangerous. In addition, the image of the double mirror will be dark and not bright enough. As a girl, if she has a cosmetic mirror, we can compare the brightness.

After paying attention to these areas, how to find the camera? You can bring a strong flashlight, and it must be brighter. Look at these things. If you can see the reflection of the lens from the hole in the object, it means that there is a camera hidden inside.

There is a more accurate way: buy a radio wave detector, which can be bought on all e-commerce platforms. But the cost of this thing is also high, ranging from 100 yuan to 500 yuan. You walk around the house with it. As long as it is close to electronic equipment, it will make harsh noise. There may be cameras in loud places.

You can also start with network signals. The sneak shot device generally has both a local memory card and a network, and several lines appear at the same time. So if you turn on the mobile phone wifi, it may be safer for the hotel to have only one official wifi network. If your phone shows a bunch of wifi networks, it is possible to hide a camera, which uses these strange networks.

How to continue to judge when encountering a bunch of wifi networks? You can search for "sneak shot detection" in the mobile phone "app store", and there will be many software that can access the hotel environment network to filter the number of cameras in the network.

What if you look around and can't find the camera, but you are still worried? If you have tape or white paper, you can wrap it up or stick it in a suspicious place. Or use your own clothes and bags to block things facing the bed.

Now you can sleep in peace.