Anytime one is in an unfamiliar location, especially an unfamiliar city and state, safety is a paramount concern.

Here are some safety hotel safety tips for those coming to the 2009 National Association of Realtors Convention here in San Diego next month:

1. Check-in clerks should write your room number down on your card-key sleeve or your room receipt but should never announce it to everyone within earshot. While I think this is standard practice now, if you get a newbie, or if you ask "What room am I in?", you might get a verbal answer. If so, it's prudent to ask for another room.
2. If you're traveling alone, ask the front desk or the concierge for an escort to your room, especially if it's very busy and the elevators are crowded.
3. Make sure that your purse and other valuables are secure on your person or in your luggage.
4. It's always best when out in public in an unknown area to be conservative in the type and amount of jewelry you wear.
5. If you're away from the convention facilities, take your name tag off. No need to let everyone who sees you on the street know that you're probably a tourist attending a convention.
6. Don't let anyone into your hotel room until you're absolutely sure who they are. If room service or housekeeping knocks, and you didn't order room service or housekeeping, call the front desk for verification.
7. Last summer there were reports throughout the nation of prank calls to hotel employees and guests reporting emergencies such as fires. If you don't hear a fire alarm -- and virtually all hotels have them -- hang up and call the front desk for confirmation.
8. As I tell my Clients when they move into their new homes, devise an plan for quickly and safely exiting the hotel in the event of an emergency. That means knowing where the emergency exits, stairs, elevators, and possibly even openable windows are. Have an outside meeting place for those in your room or group.
9. Keep your doors and windows locked, and drapes and blinds closed when you are not in the room. Before leaving, check bathroom windows, sliding glass doors, and adjacent room doors to be sure they are locked.
10. Lastly, keeping in mind the recent case of an ESPN reporter being videotaped through a peephole in her hotel room door, hang something over the peephole so that people can't see in.

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