How to Keep Valuables Safe and Secure on Vacation
Whether you're heading to a local lake for a few days of camping, traveling cross-country to visit relatives, or heading overseas for a long-awaited adventure (and a chance to cross an exotic foreign locale off your bucket list), it is in your best interest to take the necessary precautions to ensure that your valuables aren't lost, stolen, or damaged along the way. Is there anything worse than being relieved of a wallet or treasured jewelry in some fashion while you're far away from home? Well, maybe there are worse things. But it's certainly no picnic, and you probably want to avoid such occurrences if at all possible. So here are just a few steps you can take to keep your valuables safe and secure so that you can enjoy your vacation without worry.
1. In-room safe.
When you reach your destination, check to make sure that your room comes with a safe that allows you to set a combination code. This is an excellent way to ensure that cash, credit cards, jewelry, and other valuables don't go "missing" while you're away from your room. If there is no safe provided in the room, inquire about placing certain valuables in the hotel safe. Every hotel worth its salt has a safe in the office for cash drops (as an anti-theft measure) and generally only the managers have access codes or keys.
If your hotel doesn't have such amenities you may want to stay somewhere else. But a final (albeit annoying) option is to contact a local bank or simply go to your embassy in search of the secure storage.
2. Money belt.
Pickpockets are common throughout the world, especially in tourist destinations, so you probably don't want to keep major amounts of cash, credit cards, or identification (like your passport) in places where it might be easily snatched (pockets, purses, and so on). Money belts help you to hide these items and ensure that any thief that wants to get them will be stymied.
3. Traveler's checks. Cash may be king, but unfortunately it's also largely untraceable. Instead of carrying cash, take the time to secure traveler's checks from your bank or credit card company. These notes act like money all over the world but they generally require identification (like a credit card), making them harder for thieves to use. In addition, they are ensured against loss. When you call your creditor to let them know that traveler's checks have been lost, damaged, or stolen, they will overnight you new ones.
4. Insurance. There are going to be times when no amount of precautions will suffice to protect your valuables. Suppose you are mugged, you accidentally lose your money belt, or your hotel room is wiped out in a natural disaster (fire, flood, earthquake, etc.). On these rare occasions you might not be able to save your valuables, but you can at least get their value back if you had the foresight to get some kind of trip insurance to cover damage or loss during travel.
5. Leave them at home. In truth, anything that is truly prized should simply be left at home while you're on vacation, so leave the platinum card in your home safe and pack costume jewelry instead of the real deal. With a system from Home Security you can be sure that your valuables are safe and secure thanks to monitoring via smartphone. And this knowledge will help you to enjoy your vacation by providing peace of mind.
1. In-room safe.
When you reach your destination, check to make sure that your room comes with a safe that allows you to set a combination code. This is an excellent way to ensure that cash, credit cards, jewelry, and other valuables don't go "missing" while you're away from your room. If there is no safe provided in the room, inquire about placing certain valuables in the hotel safe. Every hotel worth its salt has a safe in the office for cash drops (as an anti-theft measure) and generally only the managers have access codes or keys.
2. Money belt.
Pickpockets are common throughout the world, especially in tourist destinations, so you probably don't want to keep major amounts of cash, credit cards, or identification (like your passport) in places where it might be easily snatched (pockets, purses, and so on). Money belts help you to hide these items and ensure that any thief that wants to get them will be stymied.
3. Traveler's checks. Cash may be king, but unfortunately it's also largely untraceable. Instead of carrying cash, take the time to secure traveler's checks from your bank or credit card company. These notes act like money all over the world but they generally require identification (like a credit card), making them harder for thieves to use. In addition, they are ensured against loss. When you call your creditor to let them know that traveler's checks have been lost, damaged, or stolen, they will overnight you new ones.
4. Insurance. There are going to be times when no amount of precautions will suffice to protect your valuables. Suppose you are mugged, you accidentally lose your money belt, or your hotel room is wiped out in a natural disaster (fire, flood, earthquake, etc.). On these rare occasions you might not be able to save your valuables, but you can at least get their value back if you had the foresight to get some kind of trip insurance to cover damage or loss during travel.
5. Leave them at home. In truth, anything that is truly prized should simply be left at home while you're on vacation, so leave the platinum card in your home safe and pack costume jewelry instead of the real deal. With a system from Home Security you can be sure that your valuables are safe and secure thanks to monitoring via smartphone. And this knowledge will help you to enjoy your vacation by providing peace of mind.
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