* If housekeeping was unable to service the room, security will come take a look.
The protocol for DefCon rooms:
* Security comes and takes a look no matter what, and is, from reports, particularly invasive. E.g. asked to look for USB sticks as evidence of "hacking tools": https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822879409126162779
For those who don't want to follow a X link: Soldering irons, breadboards, USB sticks, and WiFi access points are called out as "hacking tools." What clowns!
As I understand, housekeeping is instructed to look around the room to see if a bunch of guns are lying around. This is a result of the incident that happened there in 2017, where there were two dozen guns in a hotel room, unnoticed, because housekeeping respected the do not disturb sign indefinitely.
Housekeeping is neither trained nor spending time to performing a deep search of anyone’s room. But they do know what a pile of guns look like, and they’re instructed to escalate the situation to their superiors if they discover it.
And yet, housekeeping is directed to look for soldering irons and USB sticks, among other things. God forbid some maniac brings a loaded thumb drive into the premises - some of those high-capacity rounds can hold 1TB or more!
* Housekeeping is optional, and not preferred. Housekeeping never shows up.
* Security is never seen once on any floor above the ground level.
This has been my experience in Las Vegas in 5 different hotel rooms in the same hotel this year. These were 3 to 4 day stays. If the stay is longer than that then maybe a visit from security is more likely, but I didn't see them at all in the afternoons, evenings, mornings, any time. There was a security guard at the elevators on 1 day out of all the days I stayed.
The "protocol" probably depends on the hotel, where it's located, the events going on around Las Vegas at the time, and probably what the budget for security is.
The reports of mandatory security coming from "locals" and others in the comments here seem pretty wild to me, and far outside of what I've experienced in Las Vegas in the last year.
For clarity, these are the two protocols listed in the documents shared, purportedly from Resorts World, for stays during Def Con, stating how security would act in block vs. not-obviously-convention-attendee rooms.
Are they invisible people? If Security had to check 4,000+ rooms in each hotel building every day, they would be busy from sunup to sundown, throughout the hallways. The chance of seeing them would be very high, but they were nowhere to be found and we didn't even leave the hotel for a whole day, visiting people on multiple floors. Some hotels have over 5,000 rooms in one building. There are 154,000 hotel rooms in Vegas. You can do more research on the matter if you wish, but from my experience, and from the numbers I've found, I seriously doubt anyone claiming every hotel room in Vegas is checked once a day.