There have news about hotel safes, both those at the front desk and the in-room ones, being broken into.

As the title says, can a tourist rent a safe box/deposit box at a thai bank/post office, say, for 20-30 days?.

TIA.

Edited March 8, 201214 yr by mike111

You will not get one at a bank.

There are commercial security companies that offer boxes. A google search will turn up more.

http://www.safedepositboxbangkok.com/

Thanks.

Just found that HSBC thailand seems to offer a deposit box: http://www.hsbc.co.t...afe-deposit-box

Anyone knows of a bank/other business offering this service in Pattaya?.

Edited March 8, 201214 yr by mike111

Banks offer safety deposit boxes, but many (most? all?) of them have long waiting lists to get one.

Call ahead if you're going to count on the service to protect your valuables.

Edited March 8, 201214 yr by impulse

Don't even try for a bank. Even when I was living in Pattaya I could never get an SCB to give me one. There are private saftey boxes I recall some years back. One place on Soi Bukhao and another on Pattaya Tai. I would not trust anything but a bank - but even banks have employees thieve from them. Recall a story only a few months back on the TV here in BKK>

I could get one in a bank on Koh Samui on tourist visa, no problem at all. 500 baht per year, I used it for one month.

Thanks falang07. Which bank was that?.

I do not remember the name already but the building was yellow

Just don't believe or overdo things you read. 99.99% of the tourists using hotel safes have no problems with them. Simply use one of these.

99.99%? And this estimate is based on what?