The Bottom Line
Using the PacSafe TravelSafe 100 will foil the casual thief or light-fingered hotel staff member who gets into your room, but I wouldn't put the crown jewels in it.
Pros
- Place to store money, passport and cash
- The canvas bag is wrapped around slash-proof high-tensile steel wire.
- Easy to use if you read the directions first
- Lightweight and lies flat in your suitcase
Cons
- Must have a secure fixture in your hotel room
- Part of the locking mechanism can slide into the bag's seam
Description
- TravelSafe 100 looks like a canvas bag but it's a lightweight, malleable and portable safe for your valuables.
- The canvas bag features laminated eXomesh Ultimate technology -- high tensile stainless steel wire
- The TravelSafe can be closed and locked to a secure fixture.
Guide Review - Hide Passport and Money In PacSafe Travel Safe in Hotel Rooms
The PacSafe TravelSafe 100 is very handy if you're staying in a hotel room that doesn't have a safe, and you don't want to carry your passport or extra money around while touring. It's a lightweight canvas bag but inside the material there's a layer of high-tensile steel wire.
You can lock it around any immovable object, such as a pipe under the sink. Another choice would be an immovable rod in the closet. Just lock the safe around the rod and tuck it between clothes, so it's not obvious. Beats putting valuables in a locked suitcase that can be opened easily or carried out of the room. The would-be thief would need a heavy-duty cable cutter to walk off with this travel safe.
Read the directions before using it the first time. We didn't -- and the gold bead on the locking cable had slid into the bag's seam and was out of sight,so we couldn't figure out how to twist the cable to keep the bag closed.
