Watching a video about solo travel safety saved my life

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by alexandra klausner

Solo travelers, don't let this happen to you.

One TikToker offered tips for solo female tourists to stay safe, while another content creator claimed social media's saviors helped them avoid potential disaster.

A Brooklyn-based woman named Patrice (Patrice Will) posted a now-deleted video warning hotel staff never to read out a woman's room number, the Mirror reported. .

And if the hotel happens to announce your room number within earshot, it's best to get a new room right away.

“You may think it's really over the top, but sometimes in hotel lobbies people participate who aren't even hotel guests,” she said in the video.

“You don't have to make a big deal. You can just say, 'It's better not to announce your room number out loud,'” she added, the Mirror reported.

After posting a portion of Patrice's video, another woman named Darlene Octavia, who goes by darlene_octavia on TikTok, shared a nearly four-minute clip of her own explaining how she followed Patrice's warnings.

In a video posted in 2021 that recently resurfaced, she said she was at a hotel in Anaheim, Calif., for a food convention when the person checking her in at the front desk made the mistake of giving her room number. .

“I was staying in a random little inn in the middle of nowhere. When I got there to check in, it was already late and pitch black,” the traveler said in the video. The video has been viewed more than 13 million times.

She said an older man approached her while she was waiting at the front desk for her room key.

She said the front desk employees seemed “very inexperienced.”

“The guy finished what he had to do to check me in and said, 'Okay, room number 262,' and he announced it and the guy heard it. There was no question. No,” she said.

She was initially uncomfortable with the front desk person giving her room number, but since she already had other issues with check-in, she decided to go to her room anyway.

As Octavia was looking for it, an older man spoke to her and said, “Oh, your room is over here.''

“Luckily it was literally next to his room. So now he knows there's a single woman literally next to him,” she said.

The woman also told the man that she left something at the front desk and went back to request a new room because she felt unsafe, and she also told the front desk employee not to shout out her room number. She said the new location is just up a flight of stairs, but it's a great value for safety, she said.

The Post reached out to both TikTokers for comment.

Commenters below her video praised her for her newfound revelation.

“I worked at Marriott for over 5 years and I'm taught not to give my room number for this very reason. Since then, I can't tell you how many times I've started staying at a hotel only to have that number announced.” It just drove me crazy,” one person said.

“As a hospitality student, I cringe when someone tells me my room number. It's one of the first things we learned never to do,” someone wrote.

“You were so smart! And I'm glad that guy changed your room,” a third person shared.