This Flight Attendant Is Sharing Her Tips For How To Stay Safe In Hotels
As amazing as traveling is, it can come with some risks. Especially if you’re traveling alone. Flight attendants often have to deal with staying in hotels by themselves while on the job.
One flight attendant shared with her TikTok followers some of her most helpful tips and tricks for how to stay safe in a hotel alone.
Erie (@lifestyledbyerie) is a flight attendant and lifestyle content creator who makes a lot of videos about her job and traveling.
Her video on hotel safety went viral after users found that they could use her tips every time they stay somewhere alone.
The first thing Erie does when she enters her hotel room is prop the front door open with her suitcase while she looks around the room for anything sketchy. She looks for stowaways under the bed, in the closets, and in the bathroom.
Once her room looks all clear and safe, she ensures her protection by using an extra safety lock for her door.
“Safety always comes first,” Erie writes in the caption of her video. “I have had people attempt to break into my room on layovers, so I always travel with this!”
Her lock is a portable ‘door jam’ tool that you simply insert into the slot of the door lock. The tool makes it so that a door cannot be opened at all from the outside, even with a key.
TikTok; pictured above is Erie in one of her videos
You can find them on Amazon at an affordable price! To triple ensure she’s safe, Erie still locks the actual hotel door itself.
TikTok users in Erie’s comments section shared their own stories about hotel room mishaps that make us want to get one of those locks ASAP!
“…Once they double booked my room,” commented one user. “Woke at 2:30 am to someone coming in the door [and] turning lights on. Now I always use the latch.”
In a follow-up video, Erie gives her viewers additional tips on how not only to stay safe but clean in a hotel.
She says to always check the mattress for bed bugs and pack some disinfectant spray to cover surfaces and furniture. Erie also double-checks the room’s towels to make sure they’re clean but prefers to bring her own.
Erie also notes that when unpacking in a hotel room, it’s best to use the hard surfaces in the room for luggage only. No matter how clean a room looks, she still wears shower shoes and slippers while walking around.
Thanks for these great tips to help keep us, Erie!
To view the original TikTok video, visit the link here.
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