Boulder Station is hyping up their recently renovated rooms. Previously they did not have room safes which was my only gripe with their rooms. Not sure if they have them with the new renovations? Website doesnt say.
Anybody stay there recently?
I don't consider room safes to be a plus, since a) a sufficiently skilled toddler, equipped with a paper clip, could break into one in two minutes and b) the casino will never assume any responsibility or liability for anything you leave in there.
I would consider good security camera coverage of the casino elevators and room hallways to be more important.
Has there ever been a report of a room safe in any hotel being broken into? Or a room break-in, for that matter (in a reasonably modern hotel with modern door locks).
And of course the 'thief' must first break into the room. And perhaps know for certain that the safe in that particular room contains valuables.
Few could argue against elevator or hallway surveillance, but those would only be useful, possibly, after the fact.
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I dont think they are especially easy to "break into". Hotels usually have some kind of master code that allows them to access your safe in the case you forget your code. So theorhetically you could have some kind of inside job wherein mgmt gives the master code to a thief? I've never heard of that actually happening.
I've heard of stories about hookers stealing money from safes after they see their customer enter the code.....and I've heard stories of people being held at gunpoint and told to open their safe and give the thief money. Neither is something I am worried about.
I mostly want my cash out of sight and reach to the hotel cleaning staff and any third rate thief who might enter the room while I am not in there. Pretty sure the room safes do a good job of that.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
I dont think they are especially easy to "break into". Hotels usually have some kind of master code that allows them to access your safe in the case you forget your code. So theorhetically you could have some kind of inside job wherein mgmt gives the master code to a thief? I've never heard of that actually happening.
I've heard of stories about hookers stealing money from safes after they see their customer enter the code.....and I've heard stories of people being held at gunpoint and told to open their safe and give the thief money. Neither is something I am worried about.
I mostly want my cash out of sight and reach to the hotel cleaning staff and any third rate thief who might enter the room while I am not in there. Pretty sure the room safes do a good job of that.
Ditto, though haven't worried about the hooker problem...LOL but I can see it happening. But that wouldn't be any less risky than the 'customer' having cash in pocket on drawer or under the mattress.
True about the master code thing. Once I checked into a room, found the safe was locked. I called, maintenance and security came up, did their thing to open it. I had to show my ID. Once the battery 'died' and I couldn't open it. Same process.
I've actually left cash out in the open (though not my whole trip budget) and it wasn't touched by housekeeping. I leave tips on the pillow and they will take that, as I believe that is some sort of universal understanding???
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