{"id":478312,"date":"2026-03-16T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478312\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:32:09","slug":"travelodge-changes-policy-after-attacker-given-victims-hotel-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478312\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelodge changes policy after attacker given victim’s hotel key"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking before the security changes were announced, she told the BBC: “I think it doesn’t overly matter what someone knows about someone else, like personal details.<\/p>\n

“It wouldn’t be OK for you to issue a key to my room without my consent.<\/p>\n

“If hotels aren’t doing that, they need to contact the person before they give a key away.”<\/p>\n

The woman said her room did not have a chain across the door.<\/p>\n

“Maybe that should be mandatory in all hotels, so that you remove a little bit more of the risk,” she said.<\/p>\n

“One of my biggest concerns, and from looking at everything online, is how many people do get access to people’s rooms.”<\/p>\n

Labour MPs Matt Bishop and Jen Craft are due to meet with Boydell later<\/a> to discuss security at the hotel chain.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the upcoming meeting, the woman said it was good the issue was being highlighted, adding: “There needs to be better procedures for the issuing of keys, for giving out anything to do with rooms, really.<\/p>\n

“It’s frustrating that it takes something like this to then push those kind of things forward but I’m glad that they’re actually looking at it.”<\/p>\n

The company, based in Thame in Oxfordshire, said Boydell had also requested a meeting with the safeguarding minister. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking before the security changes were announced, she told the BBC: “I think it doesn’t overly matter what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-478312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}