Guide to Keeping Diamond Jewellery Safe When Travelling

Aside from your assets, diamonds are among the most costly items you will likely ever purchase in your lifetime. Therefore, you want to protect and preserve your jewellery at all times.

But what if you want to carry your diamond jewellery on your honeymoon or business trip, or if you are preparing to propose to your fiancée abroad? What precautions should you take when wearing diamond jewellery when travelling? When travelling, how should jewellery be stored?

Taking care to ensure the safety and security of valuable jewellery when travelling is crucial. It is essential to visit and remain in reasonably safe areas. Whether you’re planning a proposal abroad or travelling for business or honeymoon with your precious possessions, here is a guide on how to ensure your expensive lab grown diamonds are safe when travelling.

Get insurance cover for your expensive jewellery

Taking a vacation or trip overseas while wearing your diamond jewellery is a bad idea. Though we firmly advise against it, we acknowledge that there may be circumstances in which you must.

Never cut corners when it comes to purchasing an appropriate insurance policy to protect your possessions while you travel. In the unlikely event that you misplace your jewellery, this is the best defence you have.

Of course, you should familiarize yourself with the right types of insurance coverage that protect against damages sustained when travelling. Here, we want to emphasize that you would need a separate policy to cover large jewellery claims, as most basic travel insurance plans do not.

If you’re not sure, take some time to learn more or give your insurance agent a call.

Making a list of the jewellery you intend to carry is also a smart idea. Duplicate the list, then pack it along with your personal items. The next step is take images or videos of your jewelry and store them on your phone or camera.

Tips for Wearing Jewellery & Being Street Smart

It is always a good idea to use common sense in all that you do when going overseas and in foreign territory.

For your protection, you should avoid wearing statement jewellery in dark neighbourhoods or public spaces during airplane transit. You see, wearing flashy jewellery at the airport or while out on the town in a foreign country is a certain way to draw attention from onlookers—including criminals.

Secondly, when travelling by bus or airplane, avoid checking precious jewellery in your checked baggage. Airport security regulations may occasionally necessitate a physical inspection of your luggage, which exposes your valuables to theft risk.

Rather, you ought to pack your valuables in a little piece of hand baggage that you will personally carry.

Keeping your valuables in a carryall case designed specifically for jewellery storage while traveling is also a smart choice. A jewellery box with cushioned storage sections is something you should have if you carry a lot of jewellery since it keeps the pieces from rubbing against one another while you’re moving.

Don’t leave your valuables in hotels

Jewellery that is left lying around in a hotel room is a prime target for theft.  Most of the time stealing and misplaced items are usually caused by dishonest hotel workers.

You should find out if a hotel has a safe storage area when you check-in. This may be a security box at the front desk or a safe in the room. Before you leave the hotel room, store your belongings in their safe storage areas.

It is advisable to bring your valuables with you rather than leave them in the hotel if there is no secure storage available. To emphasize, you should never leave valuables unattended in your hotel room.

Keep in mind that when you’re not there, hotel cleaning personnel may have access to your room. If burglars have any cause to suspect that there are valuables in the room, they can also simply breach door security.

Save all the hassles and leave everything at home.

The best tip we could provide is to leave your jewellery at home unless you really must carry it with you for parties or special occasions. It certainly isn’t essential to take chances and put up with the inconvenience of planning problems when you go.

Here are some suggestions for keeping your jewellery secure when you are away from home.

Consider delaying newspaper delivery and hiring a neighbour to assist you with regular mailbox cleaning. A scattered newspaper at your doorstep is essentially a signal to the world indicating that nobody is home.

Additionally, it’s not a good idea to post on Facebook that you are on vacation. When selecting targets, tech-savvy burglars may quickly obtain and make use of this information.

Pick a discreet and secure location in your home for your jewels. The dressing drawer, jewellery box, and other visible locations in the bedroom would be the first places burglars would look if they broke into your home. It is quite difficult for burglars to take your belongings out of a fireproof safe that is securely fixed into a wall.

You might find our final piece of advice a little strange. It was discovered via police investigations and historical data that homeowners were the ones who made things simple for burglars. Simple errors such as leaving extra keys outside or failing to secure a window were frequently the root causes of thefts!

What to do when you lose jewellery when traveling

Any loss of jewellery is heartbreaking. It is particularly distressing to lose jewellery when travelling because there is very little likelihood that it will be found later. There is still hope if, despite all your safety measures, your jewellery gets misplaced or stolen while you’re away. This is where jewellery insurance becomes crucial, regardless of whether the item is lost or stolen.

Report any suspected theft to security at the airport, hotel/resort, or cruise liner. After that, formally report a crime to the local police department.