A flight attendant has given her special hack involving a bottle of water - which ensures she feels safe and secure when she enters a hotel room. KLM flight attendant Esther has a Tiktok channel and in a recent video showed the one thing she does every time she checks in.
It can be done with a bottle of water, but obviously another container like a bottle of Coke would be fine. Esther said that it was simply the best way of checking if there’s someone hiding under the bed. If it doesn’t get through to the other side then there could be someone hiding under it.
Esther’s video also highlights some other hacks which a crucial to survival for anyone staying in hotels. The first is using a cardboard cup to keep your toothbrush in. In the video Esther warns that hotel sinks are ‘not hygienic’ and the plastic cups you get in the rooms won’t hold the toothbrush up - so poke it through a cardboard cup.
Also Esther gave a real flight attendant secret to keeping clothes ready to wear. She advocates hanging them up in the bathroom when you’re having a shower. Then use ‘dry washing’ spray and she promises they’re ‘like new again’.
If the mirror’s steamed up and you’re trying to leave quickly and need to get yourself ready, the answer’s simple, Esther says - use a hair dryer. The video can be viewed below.
The issue of safety in hotel rooms is echoed by another flight attendant interviewed by the Express. Flight attendant Nassim said that a colleague got attacked in her hotel room as someone was hiding in the wardrobe and she “did not check properly”.
She explained: “They got attacked so every time I got to a hotel room I would use my luggage case to keep the hotel door open. I then go inside and check everywhere.”
American flight attendant Kat Kamali agreed and said that hotel guests should always check “if there’s anyone in your room” as soon as they arrive. She urged hotel guests to never say their “room number out loud” and to make sure they check “behind the curtains and under the bed” after checking in.
