Can you trust hotel room safe?

[Blackjack Newbie]

There are YouTube videos indicating that room safes are easily opened. I don’t know if I should continue using them and leaving $10k in the safe while a I am out playing.

https://m.youtube.com/results?search...ning+room+safe


What do you think? Leaving in rental car parked outside may not be wise. Getting a belt and using that has its complications when getting a massage ((or a hot lady invites you up to her room).

When on a trip, say Las Vegas or AC, where do you keep your trip BR (session BR is in your wallet).

I remember someone saying they were staying at a Hotel and realized that the safe was literally held by steel ROPE. They said that their friend and they joked that all someone would have to do is yank really hard and would be able to walk off with their safe. I thought,"That's really not funny." They then posted right after that in the next sentence," Really not that funny of a joke." As if prereading viewer's minds.


If I were you, I'd keep my money in banks, the safest place you can put it in. Much safer than a safe that can be stolen....

[BJPloppy]

If I were you, I'd keep my money in banks, the safest place you can put it in. Much safer than a safe that can be stolen....

The problem with banks is that you can't get enough money with a debit card, and the banks are likely to be closed at inopportune times.

[PinkChip]

The problem with banks is that you can't get enough money with a debit card, and the banks are likely to be closed at inopportune times.

Is there no opportunity to rent a safe box at a bank which you can access at any time with some sort of key or code also when the bank is closed? I think there is something like that for mail boxes at post offices, at least in Europe, but have never used anyone.

Even if the bank safe is only accessible daytime and on working days, it might reduce the problem of keeping your bankroll. E.g. if one has a 10000 trip bankroll, he could on Friday keep a weekend bankroll, maybe 2000, in a money belt and store the remaining 8000 at the bank till Monday.