Hotel Warning

[blackberryuser.livejournal.com]

A warning for people using safes in hotel rooms............sems that many of them have the
same "default" code to open them.  

Anyone know if the Westin Waterfront has this problem?

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2011/09/07/to-lock-or-not-to-lock-are-hotel-safes-really-that-safe/

Comments

[noeltheone.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all hotel safes have a bypass code to allow hotel security to get into the safe if the customer forgets the code. The question boils down to whether the hotel has reset this from whatever default is set by the manufacturer.

Here's one of the original reports:

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

I couldn't say if the Westin has reset these.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I asked the Westin, and their director of security Paul Dwyer said

"That is an extremely old safe in the video. We have different models and there is no default code to override our safe. We tested it just to be on the "safe" side."