I’m a female flight attendant and these are my top tips for guarding against hotel break-ins

• Cici from Florida regularly posts videos detailing safety hacks 
• The travel pro says hotel break-ins happen more often than people thing
• ‘Simple methods can be used to gain entry and hotel staff often enter rooms’

For anxious travelers, a female flight attendant has revealed her top safety tips to prevent hotel room break-ins.

Cici, 51, from Florida, who uses the handle @cici.inthesky on social media, regularly posts safety hacks as she says that room break-ins happen more often than people suspect. 

In one of her TikToks, the travel pro reveals how you can prop an ironing board against the door as a makeshift burglar deterrent.

She explains: ‘You can just take your ironing board, lean it up against the door and “bam,” if anyone tries to enter you will hear it loud and clear.’

Cici from Florida, regularly posts safety hacks. In one TikTok, the travel pro reveals how you can prop an ironing board against the door as a makeshift burglar deterrent

Cici checks hotel rooms before entering and while she does this, she leaves the door propped open with her luggage. She also always carries a personal safety device

Many viewers have thanked Cici for her safety tips. One fan wrote: ‘Just came back from an 18-day vacation every hotel room we checked into. I made sure I used your safety tips’

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Her other improvised safety hacks include blocking the peephole with tissue paper and using two coat hangers interlocked together from the bolt and door handle to prevent the handle from being fully pressed down. 

If you have more time to prepare before your travels, Cici recommends investing in an alarmed door wedge which retails for around $10 on Amazon. 

She usually places one under the main hotel room door and she takes another one in case there is an adjoining room to navigate. 

To prepare for the event of fire, Cici recommends counting the number of steps from your room to the exit stairwell just in case it is too dark or smoky to see.

In another clip, the savvy traveler shows how she always checks hotel rooms before entering and while she does this, she leaves the door propped open with her luggage. 

She says this is because rooms might not be vacant, due to hotel staff double booking the same room. 

The travel pro explains: ‘I have had multiple situations and I know people have had other situations. 

‘One time I walked into a hotel room that was already occupied when I had my kids and the man screamed and scared us all out of our minds.

‘That’s when I discovered how apparently common it is that they double book a room.’

After she is settled in her room, Cici says she always employs her safety hacks to ensure the door cannot be opened with ease. 

Another device Cici regularly promotes is a personal safety alarm in case of attack. She says she always has one attached to a bag she is carrying and it is ‘very, very loud’

Her other improvised safety hacks include blocking the peephole with tissue paper and putting the privacy sign on the door outside

To prevent her hotel room door from being opened, Cici uses an alarmed wedge. She also shows how you can use two coat hangers interlocked together from the bolt and door handle 

She also ensures the phone in her room works and lastly, she hangs the privacy sign outside to alert passersby not to enter.

Cici says she started feeling unsafe in hotels after she ‘found out how easy it was for someone to break into my room’ and ‘simple methods can be used to gain entry.’

Along with thieves targeting hotel rooms, Cici says it is common for hotel staff to enter rooms without permission. 

Recalling one unpleasant incident, she said: ‘Another time I had housekeeping come into my room while I was in the shower which again terrified me. 

‘I didn’t have the bolt over on my room.’

Many viewers have thanked Cici for her safety tips.

One fan wrote: ‘Just came back from an 18-day vacation every hotel room we checked into. I made sure I used your safety tips. Thank you so much.’

Another commenter said that they use Cici’s ironing board trick but if there isn’t an ironing board in their room, they use the luggage rack instead.

One viewer revealed that they got an alarmed door wedge following Cici’s advice but they forgot they had put it under their door and accidentally set it off themselves. 

Another device Cici regularly promotes is a personal safety alarm in case of attack.

She says she always has one attached to her and it is ‘very, very loud when you detach it.’

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