We posted a while back how easy it is for thieves to break into electronic hotel safes. Several people who read it said they leave their valuables in their suitcases because they keep them locked with TSA compliant locks, so people can’t get in and take their stuff.
We hate to tell them, and you, but it’s even easier to break into a zippered suitcase with a lock than it is to break into a hotel safe. Watch:
Full disclosure: Joe and I don’t have kids or even nieces or nephews (only child who married an only child, can you believe it???). So I admittedly can’t look at this from a “I have experience and this is why I think this is a totally awesome/horrific idea.” But from a practical point of view….read on.
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Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, as well, so we’re passing them along.
It’s happened to everyone at some point. You arrive in Austin on American Airlines, while your checked luggage arrives in Boise (that really did happen to us, several years ago. They got the bag to us about 12 hours later). Or you arrive at JFK on United and your 4-wheeled bag now has 3 wheels…or a rip…or a dent (that happened to me too, 20+ years ago). Or you arrive in San Francisco on SouthWest and your bag just…disappears. Forever (Well, eventually they’ll find it, but if they can’t figure out who it belongs to, like if your luggage tag broke off and there’s no airline sticker on the bag, it’ll eventually wind up at this place. You don’t want it to go there.).
As it turns out, there is a group paying attention to, not only how often peoples’ bags are lost, misdirected or damaged, but also which airlines do the most and least amounts of losing, misdirecting and damaging. Of course, trying to figure out the U.S. Dep’t of Transportations’ info is like searching for a needle in a haystack, but luckily another group has done the hard work for us.
Have you ever had an extended layover where you have the opportunity to go visit a city for a few hours? We did, when we purposely planned a several-hour stopover in Dublin so we could have lunch at one of our favorite restaurants in the world. We lucked out in that were were lockers available at Dublin Airport but sometimes there aren’t. Or maybe you’ve checked out of your Airbnb and there aren’t any places to store your stuff for a few hours before you’re ready to go on your way.
As they say, necessity is the mother of all invention, and an entrepreneur named Jannik Lawaetz has developed a system for you to safely leave your luggage for a few hours, paying by the hour.
