Tips against Pickpockets!

Anyone have and comments about laptop security?

I took my laptop and just kept in locked in my suitcase when I wasn't in the room. I was contemplating putting it in the hotel 's main safe but decided against it. Its up to you, if it is in the hotel safe and goes missing they would be responsible.
 
Just returned from Europe last night.

Advice: Take all precautions when traveling by public transportation. Pickpockets are getting bolder than ever.

Woody
 
:sad2: I agree that bum bags look horrid and are very touristy, but we will be using one at DLP in July. We also use one at music festivals. It's not just a matter of keeping money safe for us, but they are also big enough to fit a few bits and pieces in without having to lug a bag around. I have one with a large zip pocket at the front and a smaller pocket with a zip which lies against my body so is more secure.

We will also spread some of the days cash between the five of us so that if we did happen to 'lose' some, it shouldn't be much.

Re fanny packs. In 1990 I went to California with 6 friends - we were all teenagers. Our first day there we took part in a sponsored walk. One organiser asked us "Do you have fanny packs? You all need fanny packs." And the 7 Scottish teenagers cracked up :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao: Of course, now we're so much more Americanised and everyone knows what it means :sad2:
 
all my money and visa card is just in my wallet and my wallet is or in my purse or in the outside pocket of my backpack.
nothing happened until now...

Guess i'm lucky :)
 

Anyone have and comments about laptop security?

when I have a laptop with me on vacation: laptop goes in teh suitcase, suitcase gets locked.
That's it.

Worked in North-Carolina, Florida, California, Texas, Oklahoma and Washington DC
 
It'd be nice if an internet cafe got set up at DLP - I can't bear to take a notebook computer overseas, I don't trust the airports to not bang it up. I don't like taking it anywhere via plane, with all the bumping it can get on those little rollers through security.

Of course, then there is the security issue once at the resorts.

Oops, once again me.
But there is one, at the Santa Fe. Never been in it, but have seen signs for it. (near the restaurant, up the stairs)
 
Re fanny packs. In 1990 I went to California with 6 friends - we were all teenagers. Our first day there we took part in a sponsored walk. One organiser asked us "Do you have fanny packs? You all need fanny packs." And the 7 Scottish teenagers cracked up :rotfl2: :rotfl: :lmao: Of course, now we're so much more Americanised and everyone knows what it means :sad2:
:lmao: :laughing:
I've seen a few quite secure looking bum bags, or 'waist pouches' as i've now seen them called, so might just get one of those as well as the money belt we've already purchased.
I read somewhere that you should always carry your passports when abroad, is this correct?? Or would leaving them in the hotel safe be ok, this concerns me due to all the identity theft going on. Passports are a hot black market commodity, especially british passports.
Any thoughts?
 
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I often carry a copy of my passport
and I leave copies of passport and air tickets at home
and a copy in each suitcase

if something happens, having a copy can help things :)
 
My brother took his kids to DLP last year and swore he would NEVER return. Just hope my experience next week is better.

He took his youngster to Cafe Mickey for dinner at 7pm and was prohibited from taking his stroller into the restaurant with staff insisting he left it inside the door to the left.

Took his son to the toilets 30 minutes later and the stroller was gone (at least he had the sense to take his shopping bags into the cafe with them).

Staffs reaction was a nonchalant shrug and after requesting to speak to DV security he was told a report would be sent to his hotel.

Nothing happenned so when he was leaving he spoke to GManager of New York Hotel who said there Cafe Mickey were completely separate and as such he had no views to commit to.

My brother was pretty much hacked off at this so he went to the Business Centre and printed up 300+ copies of a flyer warning of rampant theft of goods at Cafe Mickey and started to put them under bedroom doors in the hotel and also left bundles of flyers at reception, bar, restaurant, hotel shop, and a few in the taxi in the lobby ......

.... all of a sudden management and security were in a fuss although he shrugged it off saying it was a separate company so what did they care.

Never got his Maclaren stroller back and Disney wrote saying to claim on his holiday insurance (no response was received to a letter informing them that the excess of holiday insurance was £250 which was £70 more than the cost of the stroller).

One thing is for sure that remember the magic jingle wasnt lost on him ...... he maintains his son remembers the magic coz all they talk about is how Mickey Mouse made his "buggy" disappear and he had to walk to school for the rest of the term :guilty:
 
Oops, once again me.
But there is one, at the Santa Fe. Never been in it, but have seen signs for it. (near the restaurant, up the stairs)

Thanks, I will check that out next time!

Also, to the person who asked - I always carry my passport. A copy might suffice while you lock the passport up in a hotel, though.
 
In all fairness to DLP, we left out McLaren buggy outside all sorts of venues and never had a problem. The place was full of them. If folk are concerned about it then just take a cheap Mothercare buggy, or hire one of the clunky things they have.
 
... we're staying at DCR, so not the usual 'hotel' environment. Anyone any opinions or tales to tell about security of the cabins at DCR?

Mike
 
Bobbieb1968, what an awful experience for your brother. :sad2:


Architect, hi and welcome to the DIS! :welcome:
 
Thanks for understanding WB ..... he took his family to FLA subsequently and had glowing reports about that trip.

Guess sometimes its a case that when something is mishandled then it gets completely blown out of proportion.

Dont get me wrong, he was hacked off at the missing stroller but the cost was really only a snip to him thankfully .... but to his son it meant the world. This is what Disney failed to recognise.

They did make the gesture that if there was a stroller left over at the end of the night that he could take it on the presumption that the owner of that stroller probably stroked his one ...... :rolleyes1 ...... sooooooooooo missing the point. Not sure how things work around the world but in Ireland if you are prohibited from taking something into a restaurant then the rest. accepts responsibility and takes the item into their care and issues a ticket to the customer. I know he wrote formally advising such an approach in future given their admission that this was an ongoing issue so it will be kind of interesting to see if they have done anything about it.

At least having bought my 2k shares I wont have to worry about this issue for my family :cool1:

Roll on Monday :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
 
... we're staying at DCR, so not the usual 'hotel' environment. Anyone any opinions or tales to tell about security of the cabins at DCR?

Mike

Because of the security barrier entry and the fact that you'll only be going to DCR with your car and if you are a guest we dropped our guard.
Left money, digital cameras, video cameras etc in the cabin without any incident. I did try to make sure that items were not obvious to people walking by, but by and large we felt very secure :goodvibes
 
Pushchair security - Last year when we were at DLRP we used a combination bicycle lock (think it was about £2 from E-bay). It took a few seconds to fit it each time we went on a ride or into a restaurant, but the upside was our pushchair was always right where we left it when we came out.
 
Because of the security barrier entry and the fact that you'll only be going to DCR with your car and if you are a guest we dropped our guard.
Left money, digital cameras, video cameras etc in the cabin without any incident. I did try to make sure that items were not obvious to people walking by, but by and large we felt very secure :goodvibes

.. thanks Reid!:thumbsup2
 














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