A flight attendant has revealed the chilling hotel safety tips she swears by – but viewers have pointed out some major flaws.
A flight attendant named Ally Case has sparked debate with her hotel safety check tips, shared as part of her ’14 Days of Travel Tips’ TikTok series in July.
Case captioned one video: ‘Hotel safety check tips from a flight attendant. I do this every trip, for work and leisure.’
Her routine began by propping the door open with a suitcase while checking the room for any hidden intruders.
‘When I first get to my room, I use my suitcase to prop the door open so I know I’m not locked in the room with a murderer while I’m doing my checks,’ Case explained.
One flight attendant named Ally Case has sparked debate with her hotel safety check tips, shared as part of her ’14 days of travel tips’ series in July
Her routine begins by propping the door open with a suitcase while checking the room
She then scanned the entire space, including cabinets, curtains and under the bed.
‘I first do a scan of the room and then I check the cabinets to make sure there are no people hiding in them,’ she says.
‘I go over to the curtains and I tap tap tap on both sides to make sure there are no people hiding behind the curtains as well.’
Case continued: ‘Of course, you have to check under the bed, no one hiding under there. And then, I go over to the bathroom – we’re all clear and safe in here.’
After completing her checks, she removed the suitcase from the door before locking and deadbolting it.
While some praised her caution, others called her neurotic and pointed out flaws in her system.
One viewer was quick to point out a potential danger of her process.
‘What about someone walking in while the door is propped open?’ the user commented.
Others shared their own chilling experiences, with one saying: ‘This happens… A guy was hiding in my mom’s room in Mexico… She saw the curtain move, and ran from the room. The guy was kicked out from the hotel.’
Some found her checks excessive, with one user joking: ‘I am more worried about bedbugs than murderers hiding in my room.’
In another tip video, Case advised flipping luggage tags backward to protect personal information.
‘I cannot tell you how many people I see on a daily basis with their information displayed for anyone to see – their name, their phone number, their home address,’ she explained.
‘What you can do instead is fill out the information card and flip it backwards,’ Case suggested.
‘That way when you’re on the plane, on the train, you’re not just giving your information to everyone but if your bag is actually lost someone can flip this over and get your information.’
A former baggage service employee disagreed. ‘As a former baggage service employee, we will not flip it. We will assume that it’s empty. Just include your email and not phone or address’
‘You can also write “flip over” or something like that as well,’ she continued.
However, one former baggage service employee disagreed.
‘As a former baggage service employee, we will not flip it. We will assume that it’s empty. Just include your email and not phone or address.’
Other viewers suggested alternative solutions, such as using a work address and office phone number or setting up a dedicated email address for luggage tags.
‘I put my work address and office phone on it. I assume that if my bag is lost and there’s no readily available info, they’ll think I forgot to fill it out and not flip it over,’ one user commented.
Case’s final tip was to use an AirTag in checked luggage for tracking in case it get’s lost
‘I also don’t put my home address on that tag. I’ve set up a dedicated email address instead,’ another wrote.
Case’s final tip was to use an AirTag in checked luggage for tracking in case it get’s lost.
‘If your bag gets lost, you can track it right from your phone,’ she explained.
In response one user commented: ‘I suck at changing the battery, seems so simple but I feel like I’m not doing something right.’
Although many called her out for being overly thorough, Case’s concerns aren’t entirely unfounded.
Christy Bautista, 31, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, was stabbed around 30 times by career criminal George Sydnor Jr., 43, in April 2023 after he broke into her hotel at 6:45pm
Bautista had checked into the Ivy City Hotel just an hour before and had parked her car directly in front of room 116, where she was staying
Hotel crimes appear to be on the rise, with a 2023 report showing a terrifying crime wave of rapists allegedly targeting women in hotel rooms at well-known chains across the US.
A woman was stabbed to death in a Washington, DC, hotel room last year by an armed robber who was out on bond and was caught trying to smoke a cigarette covered in blood.
Christy Bautista, 31, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, was stabbed around 30 times by career criminal George Sydnor Jr., 43, after he broke into her hotel at 6:45 in the evening last April. She was there to attend a concert.
In 2022, a woman was raped at a Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Gonzales, Texas, after a man was able to enter her room after convincing hotel staff to give him a key card.
A lawyer representing the victim told The New York Post: ‘The woman was asleep and she woke up to the man crouched at the foot of her bed with his pants undone and a condom out.’