Keeping Your Belongings Safe In Your Accommodation Breaking into a safe? Not worth the time or hassle. They grab what they can and get out before they’re discovered. They burst into hostel dorms or guesthouse rooms and grab whatever’s easy: passports hidden beneath pillows, phones left in their chargers. However, the vast majority of thieves in the world are opportunistic, not professional.
#PICASAFE REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
If a professional thief is determined to steal from you, he will have the equipment to steal from you, no matter how many precautions you take. Is a Travelsafe 100% Effective Against Robbery? In this case, I locked it to my wooden bedframe while winding it through the metal box spring as well. If you don’t have pipes or a sink, lock it to the sturdiest thing in the room. If you don’t have a pipe, lock it to the base of your sink. If a would-be thief is an employee of your accommodation, he won’t want to risk hundreds of dollars worth of damage. Pipes are sturdy and they can’t be destroyed without causing a lot of flooding in the process. The best thing you can lock your Pacsafe TravelSafe to is a pipe in your room. If you follow these steps, the bag will be completely closed and locked to whatever you locked it to. Step 6: Put a lock through the larger hole in the keyhole and the loop at the end of the cord. Step 5: Line up the larger hole in the keyhole and the loop at the end of the cord. (This railing is just used as an example see below for where you should lock it.) Step 4: Wind the cord around the item you’re locking it to. Step 3: Pull the cord into the smaller hole of the figure-8-shaped keyhole, keeping the bead pulled through it. Step 2: Pull the cord tight, pulling the bead through the keyhole. Step 1: Put your valuables into the TravelSafe. I only take them out when I need to use them.īecause of this, I don’t have to carry all my valuables with me whenever I leave my accommodation. I keep all my valuables in my TravelSafe: my passport, laptop, DSLR camera, external hard drives, sometimes credit cards. The Pacsafe TravelSafe is a mesh-lined black bag anchored by a cord that you can fill, close, and lock to something sturdy in your room. For that reason, we must protect ourselves. But robberies still occur on the road, perpetrated by both locals and fellow travelers.
Most travelers are kindhearted, most accommodation wouldn’t want the bad publicity. Yes, in a perfect world, nobody would break into your room and steal your things. (I’ve stayed in more than 70 hostels around the world and only three of them didn’t provide lockers in the dorms.) And nicer hotels often have safes.īut those hotel safes are often tiny - I can barely fit in more than my passport and Macbook Air.Īnd what about guesthouses, Airbnb rentals, and hotels that just don’t have safes? What would you do if an unscrupulous employee, another traveler, or someone off the street broke into your room and saw your expensive items lying around, plum for the taking? Yes, hostel dorms almost always have lockers. I use my TravelSafe to keep my valuables safe in my accommodation, whether it’s a hostel, a guesthouse, a hotel, or a rental. It blows my mind I honestly think everyone should own one of these.
#PICASAFE REVIEW PORTABLE#
I’ve urged everyone coming on our Central America tours to buy one for themselves.Īnd yet so few travelers have a portable safe. Budget, luxury, mid-range, family, solo, everything.
The single most important item I pack on my travels is my portable safe: my Pacsafe Travelsafe 12L.įor years, I’ve been recommending this product to every traveler I know. I was seriously flustered walking down a Manhattan avenue just trying to dig out a stick of gum.Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on Email A hidden stainless steel mesh construction beneath its nylon shell makes the Vibe resistant to slash-and-grab thefts by crooks.Īll this stuff is nifty, but operating some of these compartments can foil its frazzled owner-like me. There’s an RFID sleeve that blocks wireless transmissions to prevent hackers from scanning your credit card or passport data, and internal cables in the straps that allow you to secure it to a stationary object.
Its zippers have integrated protections that make it harder for bad actors to breach, and the main section can flat-out be padlocked. The Pacsafe Vibe is big enough to make a decent overnight bag, and it has no equal here for its baked-in security measures. The Pacsafe Vibe 28L Anti-Theft Backpack is one of 10 travel backpacks I evaluated for qualities including organization, comfort, and sturdiness as part of CR’s Outside the Labs review program.
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