Comments on: Thinking about worst case scenarios: Saving your skin if your hotel were a target http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/ Living the first class life -- at coach prices Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: poetloverrebelspy http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/#comment-25763 poetloverrebelspy Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:37:33 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/#comment-25763 Learn a foreign language -- if it doesn't help your understanding of/bargaining with the enemy in question, at least you may be able to pass as not American or British, if the situation requires it. Learn a foreign language — if it doesn’t help your understanding of/bargaining with the enemy in question, at least you may be able to pass as not American or British, if the situation requires it.

]]> By: MAC http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/#comment-25761 MAC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:48:25 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/#comment-25761 Rather than worrying about a terrorist attack prepare for the more prosaic - fire. Count the doorways to the left and to the right from your room to the fire escape. If the hallway is dark or smoke filled you can then trail a hand along the wall as you head for the escape route and quickly find the exit door. Rather than worrying about a terrorist attack prepare for the more prosaic – fire. Count the doorways to the left and to the right from your room to the fire escape. If the hallway is dark or smoke filled you can then trail a hand along the wall as you head for the escape route and quickly find the exit door.

]]> By: PFR http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/#comment-25756 PFR Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:36:33 +0000 http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2008/12/03/thinking-about-worst-case-scenarios-saving-your-skin-if-your-hotel-were-a-target/#comment-25756 I'd only like to add that you're massively more likely to be killed slipping in the bathtub of your hotel than you are being a victim of a terrorist attack in it. Honestly, I think my "worst case scenario" is of being someone who stays up at night worrying about things like this. Or blogging about them. (Uh-oh...) However, one safety tip a female colleague offers is: don't take a room on ground level. Too easy for someone to come in the window. (A different and much more individual kind of terorism.) I’d only like to add that you’re massively more likely to be killed slipping in the bathtub of your hotel than you are being a victim of a terrorist attack in it.

Honestly, I think my “worst case scenario” is of being someone who stays up at night worrying about things like this. Or blogging about them. (Uh-oh…)

However, one safety tip a female colleague offers is: don’t take a room on ground level. Too easy for someone to come in the window. (A different and much more individual kind of terorism.)

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