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Little hard to lock the door with door chains while you're not in the room.

Hotel occupancy is a lot lower on the weekend. I'm sure many people living in hotel rooms with more belonging than can fit in the safe will appreciated this information being released on a weekend.

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Hotel safes in rooms are notoriously insecure.

How so? Does it tend to stem from poor physical design, or the locking software?

I always figure that the maintenance guy and probably half the staff know the master code.

Many have backdoor passwords. Most can simply be unbolted and removed from the room.

http://gizmodo.com/5837561/can-000000-secretly-open-your-hot...

Hotel safes are there to secure insurance protection for your belongings.

> Little hard to lock the door with door chains while you're not in the room.

A little hard, maybe, but I've seen a vid of some guy unlocking a door chain using a rubber band, coat hanger wire and a stick.

So I guess that with a little effort locking the door from outside is possible.

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