The safe in the room.....

[ccdaniel2707]

I really wish the safe in the room would have a key pad where you would have to enter a 4 digit code instead of sliding a card to enter it because if one person in your party has that card, you will have to hunt them down to get it if u need something out of the safe.:rolleyes:

[Badfinger]

I am really glad the in-room safe on our last two cruises had the 4-digit keypad so anyone of us could access the safe at anytime.

 

Had the safe been configured with a sliding magnetic card, I would just find a hiding place for the card inside the cabin and let everyone know the location.

Edited September 19, 2015 by Badfinger

[Sweet Dutch Girl]

Any one know which ships have which type of safe?

[ccdaniel2707]

I am really glad the in-room safe on our last two cruises had the 4-digit keypad so anyone of us could access the safe at anytime.

 

Had the safe been configured with a sliding magnetic card, I would just find a hiding place for the card inside the cabin and let everyone know the location.

 

Hiding the card is a really great idea!! I never thought of that!

[GUT2407]

Hiding the card is a really great idea!! I never thought of that!

 

Even better hide it in plain sight.

 

Take an old wllat or purse with as many old cards with magnetic strips as you can find.

 

You will all know it's the XYZ card, no one else will.

[Doggielover68]

Last time we had one of the safes that required a magnetic strip we just hid the card somewhere in the room. It doesn't even have to be a credit card. We happened to have an old expired debit card to a closed account in our wallet and used that :)

 

 

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[krismas_tina]

Breeze and Sunshine have keypads.

 

 

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[ccdaniel2707]

Breeze and Sunshine have keypads.

 

 

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Awesome! We sail on the Sunshine Halloween Day!!

[stargate fan]

I really wish the safe in the room would have a key pad where you would have to enter a 4 digit code instead of sliding a card to enter it because if one person in your party has that card, you will have to hunt them down to get it if u need something out of the safe.:rolleyes:

 

For safes that require a mag strip, we use our AAA card and hide it in the stateroom. Never had a problem.

 

I do admit that I like the keypad safes better.

[bar1068]

We really prefer the safes that require a thumb print and retinal scan. Usually my wife provides the retina scan and me the thumb print, this way neither one of us can open the safe without the other, more secure this way, which we like.

[RaiderFaninNM]

We really prefer the safes that require a thumb print and retinal scan. Usually my wife provides the retina scan and me the thumb print, this way neither one of us can open the safe without the other, more secure this way, which we like.

 

LOL, just what are you hiding in that safe..............;)

 

 

What kind of safe does the Dream have?

[bar1068]

LOL, just what are you hiding in that safe..............;)

 

 

What kind of safe does the Dream have?

 

Well I obviously I can't say, if I did, i'd have to have you confined to an interior cabin on an unknown cruise ship traveling an unknown itinerary...I know you don't want that!!

 

But I'm gonna go with the Dream has the keypad as I thought the newer ships had those....

[Gig103]

Even better hide it in plain sight.

 

Take an old wllat or purse with as many old cards with magnetic strips as you can find.

 

You will all know it's the XYZ card, no one else will.

Do the safes have maximum tries? Otherwise someone with access to the room can try them all. You leave the wallet but don't use any of those cards for the safe. But if the wallet is disturbed, you know someone was looking!

[vwrestler171]

Generally the newer ships have the keypad. The only ship I have been on with the card has been the Fantasy class

[alreadypacked]

For safes that require a mag strip, we use our AAA card and hide it in the stateroom. Never had a problem.

 

I do admit that I like the keypad safes better.

 

I like the keypad safes better too--more convenient. But...

 

For the magnetic strip ones, we have used magnetic strip cards that we had "two of" such as:

 

Old hotel room keys

Old casino player club cards (casinos usually give you two when you enroll)

Duplicate AAA cards

 

Always test it first though! Once we had two cards that seemed the same, but when we locked the safe with card one, card two wouldn't open it.

 

Been using this trick for several years thanks to Cruise Critic members' suggestions!

[Landlocked_N_Texas]

Any one know which ships have which type of safe?

 

 

Freedom had magnet strip. Magic had keypad.

[aprilbs1960]

Keypad on fantasy in January. Valor had card in May.

[evandbob]

We really prefer the safes that require a thumb print and retinal scan. Usually my wife provides the retina scan and me the thumb print, this way neither one of us can open the safe without the other, more secure this way, which we like.

 

Either prints, scans, or more practical in use are apps that allow a smart phone to open cabin doors and the safe.

 

Your phone can open hotel room doors at Sheratons and Disney has cabin cards that you simply wave in front of the door knob to open.

[stargate fan]

I like the keypad safes better too--more convenient. But...

 

For the magnetic strip ones, we have used magnetic strip cards that we had "two of" such as:

 

Old hotel room keys

Old casino player club cards (casinos usually give you two when you enroll)

Duplicate AAA cards

 

Always test it first though! Once we had two cards that seemed the same, but when we locked the safe with card one, card two wouldn't open it.

 

Been using this trick for several years thanks to Cruise Critic members' suggestions!

 

We've tried our pre-cruise hotel cards for the past few sailings and they didn't work. We don't gamble, so no Players Club Card for us. Hence the AAA card.

 

One card with a mag stripe suffices for us because we hide the one. We don't keep it with us. We don't carry wallets nor my purse anytime during the cruise.

[Krazy Kat Lady]

Just returned from the Splendor; keypad safe in our room.

[dioxide45]

Even better hide it in plain sight.

 

Take an old wllat or purse with as many old cards with magnetic strips as you can find.

 

You will all know it's the XYZ card, no one else will.

 

Though it would probably only take someone three minutes to run all the cards through?

 

Isn't hiding the card in the room kind of like hiding your house key under your welcome mat or above the door frame? Or hiding your valuables in your house where only yo know where they are? Thieves know all of these places.

[Badfinger]

Oh I doubt thieves know all these places. It cracks me up when folks think thieves are Mensa-caliber individuals. Crooks are dumb...otherwise they would not be crooks. I use to travel a lot for work. I am very sure I can come up with many hiding places in a typical cruise cabin to hide a magnetic strip card that would not be found by a thief....unless of course they want to stay in my cabin for a couple hours.

 

But frankly, what in the heck would you put in your safe that would create an emergency for others if they could not access it until you came back, assuming you kept the card on your person?

[stargate fan]

Though it would probably only take someone three minutes to run all the cards through?

 

Isn't hiding the card in the room kind of like hiding your house key under your welcome mat or above the door frame? Or hiding your valuables in your house where only yo know where they are? Thieves know all of these places.

 

Oh I doubt thieves know all these places. It cracks me up when folks think thieves are Mensa-caliber individuals. Crooks are dumb...otherwise they would not be crooks. I use to travel a lot for work. I am very sure I can come up with many hiding places in a typical cruise cabin to hide a magnetic strip card that would not be found by a thief....unless of course they want to stay in my cabin for a couple hours.

 

But frankly, what in the heck would you put in your safe that would create an emergency for others if they could not access it until you came back, assuming you kept the card on your person?

 

Exactly.

It would take someone too long to search our entire cabin to find the card for the safe. I can't imagine a thief wanting to do that. He/she would need to be in and out quickly.

[Florings]

We use a library card and hide it in the cabin.

[DocF]

Our standard safe card is an old S&S card from a different cruise. This looks like it belongs on the ship and is not likely to inspire a thief to try it.

 

Doc