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Robbery is just one crime travellers could face in their hotel room. While you might presume your hotel room to be safe from theft, a study found that 38 percent of guest thefts took place in hotel rooms. A number of videos have appeared online recently showing just how easy it is to break into a hotel room.

Next Cici puts the privacy sign on the door handle outside her room and leaves her suitcase in front of the door.

This is to block anything from coming under the door, such as cameras.

CiCi also makes sure to minimise the risk of robbery when she is out too.

She said: “When I leave my room I leave the TV on with the volume up. Not loud enough to disturb people, just at a normal volume I would watch TV on regularly.”

Keeping your hotel room secret could help with security, and CiCi always makes sure to do so.

Another hotel room hack has been divulged by a flight attendant, this time explaining how to create black-out blinds in any room. 

Victoria Leigh is a flight attendant based in California. She posts her travel tips and insights into cabin crew life to her 81.4k followers on her TikTok.

She demonstrated how to use a hanger to fully close blinds.

Fans were quick to praise the clever trick. One said: “Solid gold tip, that is. (Why do the curtains never completely shut?)”