Yeah I thought there must be an easier way than drilling the whole thing open. But it made me feel better that it was so hard to get open.

Obviously someone in the hotel will usually have the back up key, however, the safe still has it's purposes:

 

1 When having guests staying overnight, cash & other valuables can be left in there.

2 I still think it narrows down the number of people who can access your valuables.  The larger hotels might have any number of cleaners, but if only the duty manager has access to the keys, it's an improvement.

 

The ideal hotel safe would be anchored to the wall, have a keypad and a loop for the guest to use his own padlock.   I have never seen such an installation, although I have seen the padlock loop, where the keypad wasn't working.

The ideal hotel safe would be anchored to the wall, have a keypad and a loop for the guest to use his own padlock.   I have never seen such an installation, although I have seen the padlock loop, where the keypad wasn't working.

Brilliant idea as it  merges both worlds, old fashioned and tech one.

 

Speaking about safe boxes I  need to digress with lesson for all of us.

 

When departing Raya last December I was witness of great commotion on reception by a farang who  loudly accused staff of  plundering some money / he used exact figure but I don't remember / from his safety deposit box using in his opinion  a key which only manager should have.

 

This is not an end of story .

Upon return , few weeks later on one of our forums / Gaybutton or Sawatdee, not here / some Australian member admitted to making fool of himself recently at Raya accusing staff of theft while in fact day or two later he identified where his money went. I don't remember but either he found it somewhere or recalled where he spent it/ .

 

I strongly believe this was the same person and case. I must command that gentleman to admitting publicly  his mistake. I hope you read it.

 

Lesson from that is , before we ring alarms that something is missing it's better to make sure it was there in the first place.

That lesson can apply to a lot of things. Don't jump to conclusions.

Always stayed at the Tarntawan but its getting expensive and tired.

Any views on the Nantra on Silom?

Know its cheap but is it OK? Noisy?

Any advise appreciated.

I stayed there when I first ever visited thailand 3 years ago. Nice place but yes expensive. You can find hotels just as good for half the price of tarntawan.

Is it that much more expensive? I didn't notice it. I guess I just was focused on a nice place.