In plain English
It is a lockable storage box kept inside the hotel room. Guests use it to place money, documents, and other valuable items in a secure place.
In context
Here, it indicates that the room includes a small secure box for storing money, documents, and other valuable items.
- Situation
- Booking hotels, reading room and rate labels, checking in, and using amenities
- What it communicates
- labels a security amenity in the room listing.
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say whether every room has one or what level of protection it provides.
Examples
“The in-room safe held their passports and cash, but the laptop was too large to fit.”
“Room 412 has an in-room safe beside the minibar.”