I expect privacy in any home where I live, whether it's for a decade or for a day.
When the door closes, it's "my personal space" for the duration I paid for.
Of course, now Vegas begs to differ.
I expect privacy in any home where I live, whether it's for a decade or for a day.
When the door closes, it's "my personal space" for the duration I paid for.
Of course, now Vegas begs to differ.
The safe is there because they acknowledge that quite a few people have access to the room and they can't be 100% sure that all their employees are good people who wouldn't steal, even if they expect them not to. Not because they intend to send randos into your room at all hours of the day.
(And it's not clear how many employees have access to override the locks on the in-room safes... I've always thought of those safes as borderline security theater.)
I wouldn't call a hotel stay "home" either, but I expect the privacy situation to be only slightly weaker than an apartment rental.
Hell, I own a unit in a condo building, and our building insurance requires annual inspections of the sprinklers and fire alarm horns. I know someone who owns a condo in another city, and the building does (required) quarterly spraying for cockroaches, and replacements of the air conditioning filters. None of us feel like we don't own these spaces.
And they can’t come do inspections day after day.
In the UK. The law requires notice.
Yes, a property you rent is your home. It's not your property, though.