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Hotel Safes That Don't Look Like Safes

September 9, 2008 at 10:49 AM | 0 Comments

We've seen our fair share of totally useless hotel safes, especially these days if we're hauling our laptop round and would like to leave it safely behind for the day. A new product from Safemark reckons to have this problem solved with an extra-large safe to fit our laptop (up to 17 inches) plus all our expensive jewelry (!).

They also are using the principle of a hotel safe looking safer when it doesn't look so obviously like a safe. This new product is meant to blend in as a desk drawer with a combination lock and they say that as well as being convenient to use because it's close to where you'll need your important documents and your laptop, it's also a bit secret.

The size is definitely a winner, but we're not sure that would-be thieves will be so easily confused that they can't recognize a desk drawer safe. But even if they see it, the drawer safe is secured to the desk with steel-wire cables that should keep it there. You only have to worry if you see a suspicious-looking guy carrying a whole desk down a hotel corridor.