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by leptons 680 days ago
The third protocol:

* 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.

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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.
How do you know that security didn't inspect your room while you were out, though?
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.