Tips for Keeping Your Holiday Home and Family Safe While Traveling
Getting the Most out of a Vacation
If you just go to New York City for a night, are you really going to get a “feel” for this bustling metropolis? And while we’re on the word “metropolis”, its notable the word’s etymology is rooted in Greek; it breaks down to “mother” for “metro” and “city” for “polis”. Have you been to Greece? Have you taken a weekend in Athens before; and would that be enough time?
Certainly, it’s better to spend a day in a famous metropolis like NYC or Athens than never visit at all, but it would be better still to spend a week. Yet even with a week, you’ll be unpacking and getting acclimated for a day, then you’ll be packing up for a day at the end, leaving you only five days; and should one turn out to be a “lemon”, that’s 20% of your trip.
What would be better is spending a full month in Athens; maybe even taking a sabbatical there for a year or so. Regardless of the actual length of your stay, if you’re going to get a feel for the area, you’ll want to live in some sort of vacation home for a while. At a minimum, you want to see a city like that for a month or so.
The thing is, though many vacation homes are designed to be like resorts in terms of architecture, location, and amenities, they’re also quite visible and subject to vandalism. What’s more, associated vandalism could be something you’re held responsible for. To really vacation right, you want to secure your vacation home; that’s the subject of this writing.
Choose Your Holiday Residence Very Carefully
Spending a month in Athens is hard to do alone if you’re the head of a family. You’ll probably want to bring them with you, and that will likely mean there’s an even greater prerogative on you to assure everyone is safe. First things first: find a vacation home in whatever city you travel to that, beyond being near the sights you want to see, is in a safe neighborhood.
Location IoT Tech
Your smartphones can be tracked, and there are apps as well as services that can be utilized that allow you to keep track of your family wherever they are. Additionally, you can use such IoT tech to assure the vacation home where you’re at is safe from sneak thieves and underhanded custodial staff looking to strafe tourists.
Contact Window Sensors and IoT
IoT tech can be portably installed which specifically monitors things like windows and doors to assure no interloper tries to break in. If they do break in, alarms will be raised.
On the IoT side of things, you may get a notification that allows you to explore the feed of an on-site camera pointed where entry points like windows are in the vacation property. This is what IoT combined with alarm window contacts would look like. Learn more about how alarm window contacts actually work through the link.
If You’re Flush Enough, Hire a Bodyguard
Long-term vacations require enough capital that, perhaps, it’s not beyond your budget to secure and employ a bodyguard. There are actually global organizations offering protection solutions, such as the International Bodyguard Association
If you’ve got a professional shadow while you explore the sights and while you rest at night, you can have a fine vacation in areas that aren’t traditionally explored by tourists; like eastern Russia, or certain areas of New Guinea.
Having the Safest Vacation; Whether in Greece or Thailand
Bodyguards are a bit over-the-top, but in some situations, you’ll want to get one before you hit the road. Contact window sensors hooked into an on-site alarm are great, and they’re even better when you use IoT connectivity to allow remote smartphone management.
On that note, locational IoT tech is also excellent for keeping track of your family and vacation home. With the tap of an app, you can check in on everybody and make sure that they’re both safe, and somewhere you can get to in an emergency.
Lastly, especially if you’re staying in some vacation spot longer than a week or so, find the safest vacation rental you’re able to. Certainly, not everything can be anticipated, but steps like these are straightforward, simple, and will do a lot to keep your family, possessions, and interests safe while you vacation.