From: Healthy, safe and responsible: the modern female traveller
Transport | |
 Avoid night travel; avoid arriving at night | |
 Arrange airport transfer to hotel in advance | |
 Use licensed taxis (know what they look like) | |
 Sit behind the driver | |
 Make ‘phone call’ in taxi to say you arrive shortly | |
 Pay taxi while still in the car | |
 On public transport, sit near women, use ‘pink tuk tuk’, lady taxis | |
 Self-drivers: Park so that you don’t have to back out | |
Accommodation | |
 Booking | |
  Pay more for safety; avoid ground floors; choose ‘women floors’; avoid dorm beds or camping solo; swags restrict movement in case of an attack | |
  Book without title Miss, Ms., Mrs | |
  Avoid couch surfing with a male host | |
 Arriving | |
  Check in without title | |
  Check phone is working, lockable door, chain at door, peephole | |
 Staying | |
  Use a rubber doorstop if necessary | |
  Keys: best unmarked swipe keys; cover key room number in restaurant; avoid saying room number loud at reception/restaurant | |
  Don’t get into the elevator with a stranger | |
 Leaving | |
  Write down hotel name and address in local language | |
  Leave note in hotel where you go that day (but ensure that no unauthorised person hears in) | |
  Don’t discuss in public where you are staying |