 Security in Hotel Rooms?
"If security is a priority - preventing people breaking into the room
while you are there or asleep - what would be a recommended choice of
hotel?"
Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, etc. tend to be safer than smaller
individualized hotels.
"If they have deadlocks to keep people out while you sleep, can those
deadlocks be opened by the hotel managers?"
Yes. They would have to be openable, in case there is some form of
emergency.
"Is there any way of being completely certain of security?"
There is no way to be 100.0000% sure. That said, the major
multinational hotel chains take guest privacy and theft prevention very
seriously, and no hotel with a reputation to protect would knowingly
let guests be ripped off. You are extremely safe in 99% of hotel rooms
- far safer than you would be walking around on the street outside of
those hotels.
Always use a hotel safe for your valuables. Have a staff member watch
you put your valuables in the safe box, write a list of exactly what
you are putting in the box, and then have that staff member sign that
list. Never leave anything of value in your room unattended.
If you have exceptional security needs, such as if you have a large
number of confidential documents that you have to have in your room or
if you want to have a highly secret business meeting in your room, some
hotels do have special high-security suites that even the regular hotel
staff are not able to enter without your permission.
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