To "Disturb" or "Not to Disturb" that is the question

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To "Disturb" or "Not to Disturb" that is the question

Some hotels have deadbolts and/or chain locks which add extra security to the door.    I'm not sure if a security man can open the deadlock - but they certainly can not open the chain lock without breaking the door frame.    So there's that.

I always put the "do not disturb" sign on the door.   I dont like housekeepers being able to eye up my belongings.   

This just happened this week to someone I know and she had the deadbolt/security latchs ON. ALL of them.

They must have tools to open the deadbolts/security latches. There was no chain lock. (I don't think there are many of those on Vegas hotel room doors?)

This is her story.......

"I just had this "shocking" experience last Thursday! I was in a Tower Suite at Mirage, had been there since Monday evening and had the privacy light on. I was in and out of the room multiple times. So Thursday morning I had just taken a bath and had the overhead fan on. The bathroom in the suite is at the opposite end from the entryway, so I never heard a knock. I was drying off and thought I heard noises in my room. I was able to grab a robe thank goodness! Opened the bathroom door and there stood a security guy right outside the bathroom door! Scared the beejeepers out of me...I was literally shaking thinking someone was there to rob me! He turned and said to a housekeeping supervisor that was behind him (checking my room!) "She is ok". I was like " no I am not ok right now!!" They had opened the deadbolt and latch on the door and had gotten all the way through the suite before I heard them! The supervisor spoke to me then and asked if I needed anything!  Yes...privacy!

Next trip I will be sure to flag down a housekeeper before I bathe and have then check the room, maybe leave some towels, but I do not want them cleaning my room, or anyone entering my room when I am not in it!"

So it seems.....regardess of what kind of locks we engage, except maybe those chains, the staff can still get in.

The dead bolts only prevent someone who doesn't have a key from opening the door. It works in conjunction with the door handle, otherwise you'd have to release the dead bolt to open the door from the inside. I have witnessed hotel personnel reach inside a barely opened door and disconnect both the chain lock and latch types of extra "security". That is necessary for them to be able to enter a room when there really is a problem without kicking the door in.

I've stayed at the Four Queens the last 4 times I went to Las Vegas, and housekeeping calls your room phone to ask you if you want housekeeping (and probably make sure nothing is wrong) around 11 to 12 in the morning when you have the Do Not Disturb tag on the door. If I know I won't be in the room around that time, I find someone in housekeeping on that floor when I leave the room to tell them I don't need housekeeping that day. As far as I know, they do not enter the room after I tell them that...