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Which Portable Door Lock / Alarm is Best for Your Travel Needs?

A sense of security at home or while traveling is important. If you live in a rental property the landlord has access to your place and even former tenants might if they still have a key. If you have roommates, being able to lock the bedroom door can provide an added feeling of security. Feeling safe when you’re at home or traveling can sometimes be difficult.

The solution to these concerns over security and privacy is a portable door lock. A portable door lock or a door stopper with an alarm can offer peace of mind for you and your family whether on vacation, for an overnight stay, or at home. Do you have a student in a dorm? Are you staying in a vacation rental or cabin? Chances are that many of these locations just reuse the keys and there is no telling who has a copy.

Portable door locks are essential upgrades for your security at home, while traveling, or anywhere you feel the need for additional personal security. Great for the traveler, renter, or homeowner, who wants to guard against unwanted entry. These secondary security door locks are perfect as they protect and don’t damage the door or the door frame.

A portable travel door lock can only be applied to your door if you are in the room, it cannot be applied to your door if you are out of the room. If you’re waiting for someone else to return to the room they will not be able to get in if you’ve applied one of these secondary door locks to the door.

Door Jammer Portable Door Security Device

Designed to fit a wide range of inward opening doors, this portable door lock uses the principle of counterforce to help prevent the door from opening as force is being applied to the door from the other side. Attach it to your door and no one can enter, even with a key! (Stops entry even with a master key) Easy to use you just slip this under the door to install and give it a few twists to keep it in place. Removes easily and quickly by pulling up on it. The door jammer is designed to work on various types of flooring – carpet, tile, wood, laminate, or concrete. Carry it onboard your flight – TSA Friendly. Read more about the Door Jammer.

Portable Door Lock

Made from heavy-gauge steel. The Portable Door Lock is effective on both lever and knob style doors. It works only on doors that swing inward toward the living space. This portable lock can be used on almost all internal doors that open towards the area to be secured. It makes the lock inaccessible from outside the room, even if someone has a key to the room. This secondary door lock works by hooking the claw on the stainless piece into the strike plate on the door frame, next you close the door, and finally, you slide the red piece tight against the door. Read more about the portable door lock.

Travel Door Alarm with LED Flashlight

This Door Alarm is easy to use and fits most hotel doors and windows. Simply hang the door alarm on the inside handle of your hotel door. It works on lever and knob style doors. If the opening of the alarmed door is attempted the contacts wedged between the door and door frame dislodge and emits a piercing 120-decibel alarm. It doesn’t stop the door from being opened but alerts you and the intruder of the breach. The benefit of this design is it can work on doors that do not easily accommodate other styles of secondary door locks. Click here to read more.

Door Stop and Alarm

This product does two things. Firsts it stops the door from being opened (other than just a small amount) and second it emits an alarm alerting the intruder and you of the attempted entry. Great for home, think back doors, doors from the garage to the house, the front door, plus of course, travel. Have peace of mind in your vacation rental, or hotel. This item requires a battery to emit the alarm, it will however still work as a door stopper if the battery is not installed or if the alarm is turned off. Read more about this clever device.

The Lock Locker

This device secures deadbolt locks. The Lock locker stops the deadbolt from opening even if a key is used. Stops copied keys, lock bumping, and lock picks. This device helps keeps you safe at home, at hotel vacation rentals, cabins, that have a deadbolt style lock. The Lock Locker is specifically designed to lock and keep locked the common deadbolt. While criminals have many ways to enter a person’s home they most often attempt to enter through doors first. Keeping points of entry secured should be the top priority for the security-minded. The Lock Locker is specifically designed to keep your doors with deadbolts locked while you are in the home. Click here to read more.

Door Brace

This item is designed more for homes than for packing and traveling with, although it can telescope down to 24 inches so it can fit in some larger bags. It installs easily under the doorknob to prevent it from being opened even with a key. This item uses the same principle as a chair placed under a doorknob for security. Learn more

Addalock

This portable door lock installs in seconds and easy to travel with due to its compact size. It can be used on most doors that are hinged and swing inwards. A cost-effective solution for security. Learn more

Door Knob Lock-Out Device

It can be used in any situation where you want to prevent others with keys from unlocking the doorknob to your space after you leave. This lock-out device is often used in evictions, rentals, home sales, on job sites, in-home, in-offices, and more. This knob lock-out device is used to prevent access to a standard doorknob. Here’s more information

Portable Motion Detector and Alarm

This portable motion detector with an alarm is designed to be set up to catch motion like a door opening or a patio sliding door moving. Once it does detect motion it emits an alarm. The alarm alerts you to the breach with its motion-detecting 100dB alarm if someone enters the protected area and hopefully will scare the perpetrator away. This unit can be placed anywhere, which is ideal for travel or mounted on the wall or ceiling, for a more permanent solution. This alarm unit can protect a zone up to 15 feet out and 60 degrees vertically and horizontally. Read more about this device.

What Makes a Good Portable Door Lock?

A portable door lock should be small and lightweight so it fits in your carry-on luggage that way you will be always inclined to pack it. One personal trick I use to make sure I always travel with one or two of these devices is to keep my travel door locks with my toiletry bag, as I always pack that.

The device should also be easy to install. If it is easy to use it becomes a habit to install it every time you close and lock the door, and that’s what you want for your or your loved one’s peace of mind.

Any portable lock you select to travel with should meet your expectations for strength and effectiveness. And that might change as you apply your door lock to different doors. One design of a portable door lock may be more or less effective depending on the door and/or door frame you are using it on. Be prepared and have a couple of security on hand.

Final Thoughts

This selection of portable door locks will work in various scenarios some better given the configuration of the door. If you’re serious about security you may need to select two of these devices so you’re prepared for the different styles of doors you will encounter.

Please Note: Using any door stop, door deadbolt, chain, or similar device could delay emergency personnel from entering the room in case of emergency. Consider all scenarios prior to engaging these types of devices. The purchaser assumes any and all risks and takes full responsibility and waives any claims of personal injury, death, or damage to personal property.

Upon Checking In

Request a room that’s not on the ground floor. Security experts agree that staying between the third and sixth floors – where rooms are high enough to avoid easy break-ins and are low enough to be reached by fire engine ladders in the event of an emergency is ideal. Be sure to also make your room location preference known at the time of booking and when confirming the reservation.

Entering and Leaving Your Hotel Room

Don’t keep your room key in the key folder handed to you at the front desk upon check-in. The room key folder typically has your room number written on it. If you accidentally lose or leave your key folder with the key in it, then anyone finding it can access your room. Our advice is to only take the key with you and leave the folder behind in the room.

If you’re going to leave your room and don’t need housekeeping to come in then turn on the TV and hang the do not disturb sign on the outside of your door on your way out. Now you’ve left the impression that someone is in the room who doesn’t want to be disturbed. This decreases the chance that a stranger would try to enter it.

Your mother told you, and she’s right, never open the door to a stranger, especially if they claim to be a member of the hotel staff, and you’re not expecting them. Ask them to wait and call the front desk if they sent someone up and then verify their identity.

To keep hotel staff or anyone with a pass key or code from entering your room while you are in it pack and use a Door Jammer as a secondary lock. The Door Jammer is not only a travel security item but a handy security item for home, office, and dorms too.

The Portable Door Lock is also a great option. It works on inward swinging doors like those of a hotel.

5. Read the evacuation plan and make sure everyone in your room knows it and knows where you all would meet up in the event of an emergency.

Internet Security

Once you’ve entered your room, you might feel a bit safer than in the lobby or a public place in the resort or hotel. That sense of safety translates to internet safety too. Yet your internet may not be any more secure than in an airport or coffee shop. In reality, you’re still using a public Wi-Fi hotspot. When connecting to the hotel Wi-Fi tell your computer that you’re connecting to a public network. The objective is to set your computer firewall to its maximum. Your best option is to use a wired internet connection instead of Wi-Fi. Never access banking or other personal websites from a public network.

Valuables in Your Hotel Room

Protect your valuables by using the hotel safe. Increase the security of the hotel safe by using a separate and additional safe lock with it.

Two reasons for the additional lock:

A little-known fact, but many hotels do not accept liability for items left in a guest room safe, the an additional external lock increases the security of the safe.

The mere presence of an additional lock should deter a thief from attempting a break-in of your safe and to move on to a room safe without an additional layer of security in place.

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