She Barricaded Her Hotel Room Door With A Couch, And It May Have Saved Her Life

Emily Chan |

Apr 21, 2023

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A 24-year-old woman is hoping to spread awareness about the precautions women should be taking to stay safe when traveling after a scary incident occurred at the hotel she was staying at.

TikToker Khali (@trulykhali) is talking about how she barricaded her hotel room door with a couch, and it possibly saved her life. Here’s what happened.

So Khali checked into a hotel around midnight. It was a busy travel hotel that she had stayed at before, so she knew a lot of people would be coming and going at odd hours of the night.

While in the lobby, she noticed a hotel worker staring at her a little too closely. And when she reached her floor and entered her hotel room, she saw two other guys watching her as well.

After that, Khali felt super paranoid and unsafe, so she decided to obstruct the doors leading to her room.

In a picture she took of the room layout, viewers can see an adjoining door to the next hotel room and the regular entry door.

Khali used a desk chair and two small ottomans to block the doors, but they weren’t doing much to ease her mind. She tried to sleep, but her anxiety kept her up.

So then, she moved the giant red couch across the room to place it in front of the doors to give herself some peace of mind in order to go to bed.

At around five in the morning, she finally ended up falling asleep. And then, at 8:30, she woke up to a knocking on her door. There were two knocks, which she ignored, thinking that it might be housekeeping.

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A few seconds later, she heard another knock. So she got out of bed to check who was at the door. But when she looked through the peephole, no one was in sight, and the hallway was empty.

Khali made sure the door was locked and went back to sleep. Later in the day, she woke up again to check out of the hotel and discovered that her door was unlocked!

Like most other hotel rooms, her room required a key card to gain access to it, and the door could only be locked from the inside.

She knew for a fact that her door was locked before going to sleep because she had double and triple-checked it. Now freaked out, Khali rushed out of the hotel as quickly as possible and headed to her car. Fortunately, she made it home safely.

It didn’t dawn on her until the day after that she had only received one key card when she checked in to the hotel.

Whenever she stayed at that particular hotel, she was usually given two key cards regardless of whether she was alone or not.

Thankfully, Khali had the foresight to barricade her doors!

@trulykhali

Pleaseeee be sade ladies. You ste never being too paranoid!! #solotravel #solowomantravel #travelstorytime #traffickingawarenes #safetyawareness #closecall #staysafe

? Storytelling – Adriel