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AirBnB door entry- is this safe?

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DoorKeyPad · 03/12/2022 09:57

Staying in an AirBnb, it has no key or keysafe to open and take a key which you can lock. It is a modern flat and accessed via one door (no communal door) and just an electronic keypad to enter a code. You can deadlock it inside but if you haven’t or are out, anyone who’s stayed their previously/cleaner/passerby watching/someone retelling their holiday story In a pub, will know this code. I do not feel comfortable or safe leaving my belongings here or being here. The contact says this isn’t an issue due to the deadlock when I asked for it to be changed. It’s not hard to guess it either.
would you be happy with this level of open door? I appreciate most key safes don’t get the code changed between people but at least it’s usually something harder to guess and then you have to be in possession of the actual key, so if you’ve already taken the key and someone knows the keysafe code it’s empty if they try it.
I know people could clone a key at any time to go back, this just feels unsafe. Majorly so.

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pigonalipstick · 03/12/2022 09:59

I agree. Why not reprogramme it while you're there? You should be able to Google the make and change the code

Reallybadidea · 03/12/2022 10:03

I think it's fine, no different to a key safe which anyone could access if they'd previously stayed. Come to that, previous guests could get a key cut if they wanted to.

DoorKeyPad · 03/12/2022 10:27

@Reallybadidea but with a keysafe once you’ve put the code in you physically have the key on your person for the week, so anyone else trying it finds and empty safe. Of course they can get a key cut, but an easily guessing number on a keypad used by hundreds of people?

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BamBamBilla · 03/12/2022 10:31

I wouldn't be happy with that and I doubt your insurance would pay out if your belongings had been stolen by someone who has access.

pauline987 · 03/12/2022 10:31

The code is probably changed after every guest checks out. That's what we do with ours

Catapultaway · 03/12/2022 10:34

So you'd be happier with a physical key that anyone who had stayed before could have taken to have a copy made for a couple of quid. But not a electronic keypad that's code can be changed after each guest departs?

DoorKeyPad · 03/12/2022 10:35

pauline987 · 03/12/2022 10:31

The code is probably changed after every guest checks out. That's what we do with ours

I asked if it was rotated or if it could be and it isn’t. It’s like having the door code equivalent of “password” as your password.

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DoorKeyPad · 03/12/2022 10:35

Catapultaway · 03/12/2022 10:34

So you'd be happier with a physical key that anyone who had stayed before could have taken to have a copy made for a couple of quid. But not a electronic keypad that's code can be changed after each guest departs?

Code isn’t changed/rotated

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Catapultaway · 03/12/2022 10:39

DoorKeyPad · 03/12/2022 10:35

Code isn’t changed/rotated

And. Anyone who had stayed before and was intent on going back to steal someone else's belongings would just have a key cut, so why would this worry you more?

itsthelittlethinggs · 03/12/2022 11:02

I’d confirm their insurance will cover anything if someone did gain access
does sound weird not to change the code

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