Why do you have to throw a water bottle under the bed when staying at a motel or hotel?

When checking into a motel or hotel, to ensure your rights and safety, you need to carefully check the entire room. Under the bed is a place we often ignore during the room check process.

A Dutch flight attendant once shared on social media that she has a habit of throwing a water bottle under the bed as soon as she checks in to ensure her own safety. She explained that this helps her easily detect if there is anyone or anything unusual under the bed.

When throwing a water bottle under the bed, if it does not roll out, you can bend down to check again yourself. To ensure safety, ask your companion or hotel staff to look down and check. If there is no person or obstacle underneath, the water bottle will go up to the other side of the bed.

In the worst case, when you feel the room is unsafe, quickly leave and contact hotel security.

Another benefit of checking under the bed is to check the hygiene of the room. Under the bed is a place that is rarely cleaned, so it can contain a lot of dust. There are even many types of trash left by previous guests under the bed.

Under the bed is also a place where insects can live. When checking under the bed, if you feel that the hygiene is not guaranteed, contact the housekeeping department for support.

Under the bed is also where customers drop valuable items or hide dangerous things such as weapons and stimulants. Therefore, checking under the hotel bed is an important thing that you should do.

Throwing a water bottle under the bed only takes a few seconds but brings many benefits, helping you avoid many possible troubles.

Some other notes when renting a motel or hotel room

- Check the corners of the room to detect hidden cameras

Installing hidden cameras in motel or hotel rooms is not very common but not unheard of. Motel and hotel owners often do not intentionally do this, but some guests with bad intentions can rent a room and secretly place hidden cameras in the room to record private images of other guests. Therefore, when checking in, you should check the room to ensure your safety. Check around the room, especially the area opposite the bed, murals, vases, bonsai trees... These are all locations where hidden cameras can easily be installed.

- Check the door lock

Try opening and locking the door from the inside and outside of the room to make sure the lock is working properly. Check the window and balcony locks carefully. You should close the windows and balconies tightly if you are traveling with small children.

- Check the toilet

You should check the toilet to make sure everything is clean. In addition, this is also a place where hidden cameras are easily installed that you need to pay attention to.