Safes?

[VegasBella Member Find all posts View Profile Close VegasBella]

A lot of hotels have in-room safes. Just wondering why I never see them in timeshares? Is there a reason?

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I have seen then in about 60% of the timeshares I have gone to. Keep in mind that if you get a lock out unit only one side has a safe most of the times.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

You don't need a safe if there are no crooks around.

[VegasBella Member Find all posts View Profile Close VegasBella]

A timeshare I'm looking at has them in the hotel section but not the timeshare section. Just made me curious.

Oh and safes can be used not just to protect stuff from people but also to protect people from stuff. For example, if you have medication you don't want a child or teen taking accidentally, you might put it in a safe.

[BoardGirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BoardGirl]

Um, wait, that would mean that a family would need a safe at home, too, to keep the kids out of their stuff?

back to topic, the last ts trip I took had a safe. At least 2 in our network have safes.

No, I don't see them a lot, but, I don't need them, so don't miss them.

I'm not fond of Safe Fees, paid whether or not you use it. I think there should instead be a "please unlock the safe that I stupidly neglected to remember passcode for" fee.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Most, if not all timeshares that I have stayed in have safes. Personally, I think they come in very handy. I like leaving an extra credit card, and some money in the safe, just incase I lose my wallet, etc. I like knowing that I have a backup in a safe place.

I don't normally travel with anything other than a little junk jewelry, so I don't need a safe for that purpose.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

I sometimes see them in timeshares, but often not.

There was a thread on FlyerTalk a while back about hotel safes and how they were often not that safe. Many come with a factory setting emergency code and the hotel never changes it. If a crook knows that code, they can often get into the safe because the hotel has not set its own code. Often it is something very simple like 1-1-1-1

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

There have been safes in several of the timeshares we have been to.

[VegasBella Member Find all posts View Profile Close VegasBella]

Um, wait, that would mean that a family would need a safe at home, too, to keep the kids out of their stuff?

Plenty of people have a safe at home. Few travel with a safe.

Plenty of people have a lock on their medicine cabinets or home office file cabinet or their home bar. It's really not that unusual to lock things away from kids at home or when traveling.

[b243923 Member Find all posts View Profile Close b243923]

The Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort has in room safes.

It creates lots of problems for customers who are exchange customers or off the street since they are automatically charged for the safe if they use it or not.

Owners at the resort do not get charged. We really enjoy having it to leave passports extra cash or wallets and purses while you are at the pool.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

I have never understood charging exchangers for having a safe in the room whether it is used or not. The logic of doing that is no different than charging for everything else that is in the unit.

[stevio99 Member Find all posts View Profile Close stevio99]

Make sure you keep holding the safe till its locked! THis could actually be a problem at atlantis. I read a report on another forum where the safe didnt lock properly, and the door was open, and they cleaned out the occupant of the room. Thois could actually happen there, though. The doors are notorious for needing extra oomph to get them closed, and if you dont hold the safe flush till it locks, it wont lock and is open. I could easily see this happening. there.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

Just hold the door shut while it is locking and then pull on it to make sure it is closed.

[BoardGirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BoardGirl]

Plenty of people have a safe at home. Few travel with a safe.

Plenty of people have a lock on their medicine cabinets or home office file cabinet or their home bar. It's really not that unusual to lock things away from kids at home or when traveling.

gun safes I understand, and know a few people with those. But growing up there were no medicine cabinet locks, etc., we were instead taught to keep our hands off what wasn't ours. Do people now instead hide things and lock them up vs teaching their children? I do find that unusual.

I don't know anyone with a home safe, except gunowners. I will allow for the possibility that no one I know is wealthy enough to need one for hiding their expensive jewelry and excess cash. But I do know plenty of people on meds that are also parents, and locking med cabinet is also not typical. Maybe it's a regional thing?

[BoardGirl Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BoardGirl]

I have never understood charging exchangers for having a safe in the room whether it is used or not. The logic of doing that is no different than charging for everything else that is in the unit.

Yeah, not fond of the policy. After the initial purchase/install, it costs the resort nothing to have it. If they lock it up after each turnover, it would be pretty easy to charge only those who wish to use it vs gouging everyone for a long-ago-paid-for capital expense.