Yes bro you're rite.
Never put valuables in the hotel room as advised by the management of the hotel.
Lailai hotel and formosa hotel both also have a safe box at their reception area where the hotel staff and yourself will each hold a key. Both keys must be inserted into the key hole together before the safe box can be opened. So is considered as rather safe to use for putting passport and money into it.
However, the
room safebox is not as safe as the
reception safe box because no one jaga the room safebox when you are out of the room, meaning that it could be break open or being meddled with by someone.
Normally I don't put passport as a deposit is because afraid the hotel staff may accidentally lose it or return wrong passport by mistake, so I rather pay cash as deposit. I also put a portion of my spare cash into the safe box just in case money and wallet also gone.
The above suggestion is base on my opinion only.
To each his own, as long as you feel comfortable on your way of keeping things, then is okay leow.
But for me, cash gone is okay, money can always earn back. However, passport is damn important to me, without it, will not be able to get back to spore on time to work and the consequences will be very terrible if it happens .....
Formosa safe box is in the Safe Box Room where the reception will invite you in, to place or retrieve your barang barang. As for Lailai, the safebox is just beside the reception counter.
