Travel Safety Expert Advises To Never Stay Above The Fourth Floor At A Hotel

According to a travel security expert, anyone staying in a hotel should avoid staying above the fourth floor if possible. He also believes that you shouldn't stay anywhere below the second floor. So, basically, you've got a total of two floors you should be booking.

So, if you want to be in the safest place in a hotel, listen to this guy.

Lloyd Figgins is a travel risk expert who used to be a soldier. He told Sun Online Travel that he believes you should only stay between the second and fourth floor because the 'biggest thing that is overlooked is the risk of fire'.

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Figgins said: ¡°When you arrive in a hotel, you¡¯re in an unfamiliar environment which you think is safe. The problem comes that if there were to be a fire alarm go off, what do we do next? Do we know where the fire exit is? How are we going to get to it, and is it going to get you to safety? Is it blocked or locked?¡±

He recommends that once you get to your hotel, 'it is always worth walking the route of the fire escape, counting the number of doors between your room and the fire escape.¡¯

It doesn't sound like the most entertaining thing to do but it is what makes sense.

He added, ¡°Make sure you are staying between the second and fourth stories of the hotel because fire department ladder rarely reach above fourth storey. Anything below this is targeted by burglars.¡±

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The author of The Travel Survival Guide also suggests that you should avoid saying your room number out loud and have the staff write it down on a piece of paper for you. He said, ¡°Hotels attract criminals as there are a lot of people with their valuables or possessions either in their room or on them."

¡°Receptions and lobbies are where they can pose as fellow travellers. They are looking for people checking in alone because they can hear what room they are allocated ¡ª the receptionist says they are in room 301, for example. When they then see that person in the bar or restaurant, they know that room is unoccupied and [they] are unlikely to be disturbed," he added.

He also said, ¡°It is often the case that they have a way of gaining entry into that room, sometimes an inside job like getting cleaning staff to open the door for them, and know they won¡¯t get hindered. Even if you¡¯re in your hotel room and [criminals] have the master key, the door wedge underneath will stop even that."

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