A silly villa question

[sharon-o]

We have never stayed in a villa before booked with first choice. I have scoured the brochure and it says nothing about a safe, is there a safe in villas?

I know its a silly question but we always have a safe for the valuables and personal items.

If not where do you stash cash, jewellery, passports etc?

 

[Scottish_Maleficent]

The last two villas we stayed in did not have safes, but I think there are villas with safes.
We just kept our passports and travellers cheques in a bedoom drawer.

HTH

 

[Netty]

some villas have safes, but we haven't in any we've stayed in up to now.

where to hide the stuff... well this is going to sound silly
but i always stash ours in between the ironing board covers on the ironing board.
As its not an obvious place to look... well it works for me!
Jeanette

 

[Claddagh]

Hi Sharon

We have been looking at getting one of those things that looks like a baked bean can but you can hide stuff in. We had seen them somewhere before but can't find them anywhere now!

i think we will end up hiding our money in DH socks!

 

[RUSHBURY]

We have a safe in our villa this year - this is the first villa we've rented that will have one.

I always stashed the passports etc inbetween the towels in the linen cupboard.

 

[annette_tr9]

we always put ours in the fridge!!

 

[Leech esq]

We stayed in a Villa at Christmas. There was a safe. You had to ring up a company with your credit card details in order to operate it, we didn't bother as the house had an alarm,

 

[JohnnySharp]

Have stayed in a few villas but never one with a safe.

If we do have valuables tend to leave them in our Delsey suitcases as they have combination locks on, passports, flight tickets etc

To be honest I am always wary of leaving money in the villa though.

 

[juliebro]

Is this what you were looking for?

http://3gnewsroom.mobiles.co.uk/safe-tin-can.html


Julie

 

[tartangirl]

We've stayed in 5 villas, 3 of which had safes. Two of them had alarms but we never used the alarms.

When we dont have a safe we hide the valuables under some furniture somewhere (eg chest of draws in the bedroom). We try and pick somewhere that doesn't seem obvious but I reckon we probably pick the same as everyone else

To be honest I wouldn't take much jewellery anyway as you're more likely to be robbed in the street than from your villa. I would also take travellers cheques instead of cash.

 

[Mike Swannick]

Hide valuables amongst dirty washing. Crims never rake through other peoples kecks and it may help you to stop biting your finger nails.

 

[sharon-o]

Thanks soooooooooo much for all the replies. The tins idea is great and i love the dirty washing idea. I will use all these brill hiding places if we have no safe...BIG THANK YOU xx