Originally Posted by
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Friend of mine who was vacationing across Europe (from Barcelona to Vienna) said that twice he had a case that in the middle of night someone opened his hotel's door.
In one hotel room had a chain, but in second times had not, friend woke up and that someone who opened doo said 'sorry', closed the door and left. Friend moved the table against the door just to make sure that won't be any other surprises. Next morning asked the reception 'what the hell' but they said that no one from their personnel opened the door.
Once friend was back in states he ordered
this device from Amazon and now carries it with all his travels and tells me that I should do the same.
I personally never had such problem in past. Have you?
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I've had low level hotel staff enter my room in the middle of the night at two different local four star properties in Italy; at least one of them didn't have a chain or deadbolt for the door, just a cheap lock where you push the button to lock the door from the inside. When I can, I avoid such hotels. In retrospect, I should have made much more of a fuss with management, bit I suspect that it would not have been taken seriously.
I also had one experience in the USA where my room was changed and a couple hours later someone was given the key card to the room when I was taking a bath, but fortunately it was a situation and place where I didn't feel seriously threatened. In this case, the hotel handled it well and sent a nice apology of chocolate dipped strawberries and a bottle of wine with a handwritten personal note. Classy!