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>It’s easy to say where not to, but then offer a suggestion for a safe place to store stuff like a passport or cash. Simple: you keep those things on your pers

>It’s easy to say where not to, but then offer a suggestion for a safe place to store stuff like a passport or cash. Simple: you keep those things on your person whenever you're away from your hotel room. Use a "traveler's wallet" which hides under your clothes. You should never be without your passport in a foreign country; it's generally illegal and it's the only way to properly identify you.

Scoundreller 4y ago
I’m usually in developed countries with pickpocketing as a problem, so I’m confident in showing my drivers license if I get controlled by police, but if I lose my passport, I’m in trouble. But what if you have 2 passports? Carrying both is a SPoF. Where do you hide the additional?
- Cthulhu_ 4y ago
  > Where do you hide the additional? Definitely not in the room safe, that's the first thing they'll look through. Maybe the hotel has their own safe? But that involves trusting the staff. I think all bets are off if someone with intent breaks into your room and does a full upheaval, but hiding it in your suitcase or e.g. sticking it with some tape under a cabinet or drawer might be adequate.
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    Reminds me of my college days, we’d play “trophy bowl” where teams of 2 against 2 would have to find a hidden object and then place it in a room cup in the centre of the room (or a bowl of a trophy if one was available). Our preferred strategy was to have my teammate pin down the other two so I could search the room uninhibited. Made for great entertainment for anyone watching.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    The other thing with putting things in a hotel safe is forgetting them when you leave. I basically hardly ever put clothes in a closet or a drawer in a hotel because over the course of hundreds of stays, I will forget at some point.
  - durnygbur 4y ago
    For me that's a perfect recipe to forget about it... sooner or later, most likely under some travel related stress or in rush... unless I would stick on the bathroom mirror post-it with "remember the passport!" written on it?
  - GekkePrutser 4y ago
    They won't take a passport from the safe though. It doesn't have any value and if they're caught it's clear it's been stolen. Such thieves want only money and perhaps devices. Anything else they don't care about.
ghaff 4y ago
In general, carrying things around with you are more likely to get lost or stolen in some manner than if they're just left in your room. There are probably exceptions but if I'm somewhere like Western Europe, I'm not carrying my passport around with me.
Markoff 4y ago
Uhm, good luck renting motorbike in Southeast Asia without your passport as deposit and local police is well aware of this.
- elf25 4y ago
lazyant 4y ago
There's a greater chance in most places to have your passport lost or stolen from you than losing it from somebody breaking into your hotel room I think (zero data to back this). It's also a hassle; you want to go to the beach and swim or snorkel or any sport, now what do you do, having to keep an eye on a pouch or something.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  >There's a greater chance in most places to have your passport lost or stolen from you than losing it If you keep it under your clothes in a travel wallet, this won't happen. >you want to go to the beach and swim or snorkel or any sport You can get waterproof pouches for this.

Scoundreller 4y ago

I’m usually in developed countries with pickpocketing as a problem, so I’m confident in showing my drivers license if I get controlled by police, but if I lose my passport, I’m in trouble. But what if you have 2 passports? Carrying both is a SPoF. Where do you hide the additional?

Cthulhu_ 4y ago
> Where do you hide the additional? Definitely not in the room safe, that's the first thing they'll look through. Maybe the hotel has their own safe? But that involves trusting the staff. I think all bets are off if someone with intent breaks into your room and does a full upheaval, but hiding it in your suitcase or e.g. sticking it with some tape under a cabinet or drawer might be adequate.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Reminds me of my college days, we’d play “trophy bowl” where teams of 2 against 2 would have to find a hidden object and then place it in a room cup in the centre of the room (or a bowl of a trophy if one was available). Our preferred strategy was to have my teammate pin down the other two so I could search the room uninhibited. Made for great entertainment for anyone watching.
- ghaff 4y ago
  The other thing with putting things in a hotel safe is forgetting them when you leave. I basically hardly ever put clothes in a closet or a drawer in a hotel because over the course of hundreds of stays, I will forget at some point.
- durnygbur 4y ago
  For me that's a perfect recipe to forget about it... sooner or later, most likely under some travel related stress or in rush... unless I would stick on the bathroom mirror post-it with "remember the passport!" written on it?
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  They won't take a passport from the safe though. It doesn't have any value and if they're caught it's clear it's been stolen. Such thieves want only money and perhaps devices. Anything else they don't care about.

ghaff 4y ago

In general, carrying things around with you are more likely to get lost or stolen in some manner than if they're just left in your room. There are probably exceptions but if I'm somewhere like Western Europe, I'm not carrying my passport around with me.

Markoff 4y ago

Uhm, good luck renting motorbike in Southeast Asia without your passport as deposit and local police is well aware of this.

elf25 4y ago

lazyant 4y ago

There's a greater chance in most places to have your passport lost or stolen from you than losing it from somebody breaking into your hotel room I think (zero data to back this). It's also a hassle; you want to go to the beach and swim or snorkel or any sport, now what do you do, having to keep an eye on a pouch or something.

midoridensha 4y ago
>There's a greater chance in most places to have your passport lost or stolen from you than losing it If you keep it under your clothes in a travel wallet, this won't happen. >you want to go to the beach and swim or snorkel or any sport You can get waterproof pouches for this.