Top secret about hotels that you should know.
Hotels are commercial establishments that provides lodging, meals, and other services to guests, travelers, and tourists.
Hotels can range from small family-run businesses to large international chains. Most hotels list a variety of services, such as room service, laundry, and concierge.
They are not just buildings for lodging but offer a range of Âservices and contributing significantly to the overall tourism experience.
In recent times a lot of crimes perpetrated by scammers, ritualist and fraudster are linked to hotels, guest inns or short lets.
Here are helpful tips that would be of benefits to you when next you decide to lodge in hotel or guest inns.
1. When you enter your room,and it has a key, don’t remove the key from the lock after opening .This would make it impossible for someone to open from outside without your knowledge or permission. Incase the lock is digital, place a heavy item behind, that would make it difficult for someone to come in, at least without your knowledge.
2. Installing cameras in hotels rooms is illegal and a breach of customers privacy, to avoid this, make sure to scan the entire apartment or room to know if there’s a hidden camera installed.
Put off all lights in the room and turn on your phone camera to scan all suspicious areas.
Spy camera are known to have infrared rays easily detectable through a phone camera.
Cameras have been detected in Air condition, Sockets, bathrooms and bulbs.
Many fraudster connive with hotels staff to put secret cameras in rooms and come back to blackmail the customers into paying huge amounts in order not to release their secret videos.
3. Make sure to notify someone about your hotel reservations with accurate details and evidence. Verify the actual name and address of the hotel and that it tallies with what is on the receipt and Online.
4. Once you check into your room, inspect it carefully to make sure there is no strange object or exhibit. This is to avoid you paying for a crime that you didn’t commit.
Cases of NDLEA searching a room and finding exhibit that implicates have been recorded as the have right to search rooms.
In cases when you find something unusual, contact the hotel management and do not touch it.
5. Never open your apartment door to anyone in the middle of the night or at ungodly hour no matter how hard they knock.
Even if your AC or light goes off in the middle of the night so not leave tour room. Rather call the management and tender your complaints.
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