Please use Safes in the rooms

[ACE2012]

Hello Everyone-
I have been going to Disney World since the 1970's and think they have the best employees you can find. I have always found their staff very honest and once left behind a nightgown and jewelry in my room and they sent it to me a week later.

However, my last trip in Feb. 2012, high end jewelry was stolen out of my room at the Boardwalk hotel. Since I am a DVC member, there was only change of towels once during the trip. I have reported it.

However, sad to say, people will be people even in the happiest place on earth. 100%, I will use the room safe from now on for good jewelry as well as high end costume jewelry. Just want others to know to take the precautions. Nothing can spoil a Disney trip like stealing.

 

[Girls1]

I'm sorry to hear that happened to you.
Last year, I left my Ipod touch at our room at Pop Century and had not even realized it until they contacted us. This was about a week after we got home. They shipped it out to us free of charge. We were impressed with their level of service.

 

[Dashzap]

One strategy for stress-free travel is to leave real jewelry home. Use the safe for stuff you must bring.

 

[DreamlikeCat]

Maybe someone who works in the industry can clarify this for me (us).

I was told that room safes are still not considered a safe place to store valuables because there must be a master combination to unlock the safe and/or to reset after the guests leave and new ones use the room & safe.

Do safes have a place for a padlock or combo lock as well? If not, then I suppose someone who really wanted your stuff could still get it from a room safe.

 

[maxiesmom]

Maybe someone who works in the industry can clarify this for me (us).

I was told that room safes are still not considered a safe place to store valuables because there must be a master combination to unlock the safe and/or to reset after the guests leave and new ones use the room & safe.

Do safes have a place for a padlock or combo lock as well? If not, then I suppose someone who really wanted your stuff could still get it from a room safe.

Even so, it is better to leave your valuables in a safe than it is to leave them strewn about the room. Every time I see a poster state that they feel perfectly fine leaving their valuables all over their room I cringe. OP, I'm very sorry for you.

 

[NonScents]

Maybe someone who works in the industry can clarify this for me (us).

I was told that room safes are still not considered a safe place to store valuables because there must be a master combination to unlock the safe and/or to reset after the guests leave and new ones use the room & safe.

Do safes have a place for a padlock or combo lock as well? If not, then I suppose someone who really wanted your stuff could still get it from a room safe.

If I remember correctly, the safes have a ginormous key (one that needs special authorization to dupe). The BW may have a combination type, I've only stayed in Value and Mods.

I agree with not bringing any "good" jewelry on vacation, rarely bring anything that I would really mind losing.

 

[Blackbeltdisneygirl]

Maybe someone who works in the industry can clarify this for me (us).

I was told that room safes are still not considered a safe place to store valuables because there must be a master combination to unlock the safe and/or to reset after the guests leave and new ones use the room & safe.

Do safes have a place for a padlock or combo lock as well? If not, then I suppose someone who really wanted your stuff could still get it from a room safe.

I don't think that there is a master combination. When we were there in May, my mom lost her key. She looked everywhere and bugged me to look through all of my stuff too. She finally called management, and they brought a key that had been turned in to see if it fit. The manager wanted to check b/c the key had no keyring on it anymore, and they didn't know what room it was for. If it fit my mom's safe, they wouldn't have to have the lock broken to get inside the safe, and it would save my mom the large fee for having to replace the lock. Turns out it was her key! What was funny was that she had turned in a keychain earlier in the week that she found laying on the ground. She felt pretty stupid when she realized she had turned in her own keychain. She was lucky someone else returned the key b/c they were going to call the locksmith to break in. If they had a master, they would be able to avoid that.

 

[deegack]

The only good jewelry I bring on vacation is my wedding/erings and diamond studs. I wear them 24/7 so no real worry about them. However we put iPods and other small electronics and the spare credit card. It makes us feel safer.

 

[ExpatDisneyLover]

So sorry to hear your story. I had some jewelry stolen in Hawaii at a hotel many years ago and ever since then I have been diligent to use hotel safes or if there are none to lock my luggage. Sad but something that is necessary - even at Disney.

I am glad to hear that some people had left items returned to them.

 

[SeattleSuz]

Oh wow so sorry to hear this. We always utilize the room safe whenever we stay in a hotel. We've never had an issue with having anything missing from a safe.

 

[ShhhQ]

Our 1st trip in 2007.. we stayed at Pop. DM had brought a few things we felt should be locked up... and I put the key in a safe place.. at the end of the week, was packing up to leave the next morning and could not find the key anywhere... DM called up to the front desk and someone came and opened the safe. I have heard since then of people being charged to open safes, but we never were.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I don't bring good jewelry on vacation. Even at home my good jewelry is locked in our home safe.

I don't trust people because I've never left anything out - no matter where I stay on vacation.

Money, credit card ect. goes into safe. Laptop is locked and hidden when it is with me which is very seldom.

When the 4 of us travel, we also lock up the kids stuff - ipods, nintendo 3DS and anything else that will fit in the safe of value.
My husband thinks I'm being ridiculous but the only thing ever stolen from our room was the 20.00 that my son accidentally left on the end table of a room.

One day his laptop that he uses for business will disappear from the room of a hotel and he'll be sorry he didn't put it away when he travels alone.

I agree with OP. Use those safes, hide and lock up all valuables!

 

[Dismom55]

Sorry you had a bad experience, really horrible.

I personally never wear good stuff on vacation, I wear one pair of posts and keep them on the whole time and before my husband died only wore my wedding bands, now I wear no rings.

As far as the safe, yes it is just one big key in both the Values and Moderates, I put things like my drivers license, cash for the drive home and ADR tips envelopes, any thing I am not carrying into the park with me in the safe, then I put the key in my suitcase so I will not lose the key in the park.

I figure it this way, they would really have to search and tear the place apart to find the key. The safe is not big enough for things like laptops and such so we just put them out of sight as well as the cords and such, no sense in flaunting things.

 

[Blackbeltdisneygirl]

Our 1st trip in 2007.. we stayed at Pop. DM had brought a few things we felt should be locked up... and I put the key in a safe place.. at the end of the week, was packing up to leave the next morning and could not find the key anywhere... DM called up to the front desk and someone came and opened the safe. I have heard since then of people being charged to open safes, but we never were.

There wasn't even an option of them unlocking it. She told us someone would have to break the lock to get in if the key didn't work. Point blank. I will keep my key protected next trip so I don't end up having to pay!

I don't bring good jewelry on vacation. Even at home my good jewelry is locked in our home safe.

I don't trust people because I've never left anything out - no matter where I stay on vacation.

Money, credit card ect. goes into safe. Laptop is locked and hidden when it is with me which is very seldom.

When the 4 of us travel, we also lock up the kids stuff - ipods, nintendo 3DS and anything else that will fit in the safe of value.
My husband thinks I'm being ridiculous but the only thing ever stolen from our room was the 20.00 that my son accidentally left on the end table of a room.

One day his laptop that he uses for business will disappear from the room of a hotel and he'll be sorry he didn't put it away when he travels alone.

I agree with OP. Use those safes, hide and lock up all valuables!

Maybe a mousekeeper thought it was a really large tip. Granted, that is a bit of a ridiculous tip, and I personally would have left it alone if I were the mousekeeper, but maybe that's what happened. Maybe they though you were rewarding them for a job well done! Or, maybe when they left the door open for cleaning, someone waltzed in and took it.

I did have my wedding rings taken at a hotel in Amish country. That really stinks. I had them zipped into a bag too, so they really had to be looking for them. I was pregnant and had worn them on a chain around my neck b/c it was my first time away from my husband and I wanted to keep him close. There was no safe and the chain started to irritate my neck, so I zipped it into an inside pocket in a bag. I never saw them again.

 

[a1tinkfans]

sorry to hear this OP! I hope you filed a report at the resort and filed one with the POLICE also, so it goes OUTSIDE of disneys hands,,,,,just saying...IF they see any type pattern???

At POR I know they have the room safes but they Also have safes behind the front check in area, safes in a room, where one can store items, you sign in and out.......
years ago, the dh surprised me on the plane ride with a very expensive necklace that I could Never wear at disney...I really have no idea what he was thinking other than he knew I LOVE'd jewelry and he definitely surprised me....but it stayed in that safe the whole trip....(they actually mentioned it to me, I prob looked like a crazy lady with that thing on my neck when we arrived...)
Whatever I bring to Disney in the way of jewelry (now) does not ever leave my body....I literally wear it 24/7 and if it does not fit that criteria (for comfort) I leave it home...I would have been devastated to lose any item I had....we use the safe for anything we think is valuable while traveling..cells/etc..And any other items are left in a small carryon that is then placed inside the regular size luggage and all that is locked together. So one would have to know there was something in it and walk out with all of it attached...and if they did that...well, more power to them...cause theyd really be looking pretty funny dragging it all...
again, sorry that someone stole from you, so sad and maddening!

 

[Mickey1Fan]

Has anyone else noticed this was the one and only post from the OP????

 

[KJay]

Someone mentioned big keys for the values & mods; do the deluxes have a different style safe? Most of the (non-disney) safes I've seen lately are the set-your-own-combination type...

 

[maxiesmom]

Someone mentioned big keys for the values & mods; do the deluxes have a different style safe? Most of the (non-disney) safes I've seen lately are the set-your-own-combination type...

I remember that the Poly has a key pad lock. I'm not sure if that is what they have in all of the deluxe resorts.

 

[Blackbeltdisneygirl]

Has anyone else noticed this was the one and only post from the OP????

I did! I wondered about that!!!

 

[dfb05]

Has anyone else noticed this was the one and only post from the OP????

Maybe it's someone who posts regularly and doesn't want anyone to know they had stuff taken? Or is it some kind of scam?