Have you ever had something stolen on your travels?

That sucks and what a downer to have something like this happen. It's especially bad to think that dishonest staff were responsible. My Father had his car broken into in Paris and a few suits and other luggage items taken, but I've been very fortunate so far and have never had anything stolen from me to dat. (Touch wood). I don't have travel insurance and have never taken it out before, even though I do get around a bit.

Hi RawBill, I had my bag snatched in Paris late one night up at Montmart. My friend and I had taken a long weekend break there and after enjoying some snails and the view we ended up finishing the evening having drinks with the most georgous French opera singer. As he was walking us back to the underground my bag was cut off my shoulder so quickly I didn't even realise it had happened. The French man took off after him but the thief was too swift. Luckily my passport was locked in the suitcase back at the hotel but the key for said suitcase was in the stolen bag so I had to get the man on reception to break into it for me. We spent a fascinating hour the next morning in the local police station.

My travel photos are special to me and I am very fond of my digital camera that has an excellent zoom. Therefore I feel so sorry to hear that when you look at your travel photos you can see the difference in quality. It was so upsetting for you to have found out your camera was stolen in California. The Golden Gate Bridge is such an amazing sight so to realize your really good camera was missing when you arrived there must have been really disappointing. The staff were dishonest so that was terrible.

I have lost a few things on my travels but I am not sure that they were stolen. In Tunisia I lost my coat from the hotel I was staying at. When I was camping in Slovenia by the beach I lost my personal stereo. I was sad to have it go missing because I loved the cassette that was in it. A year or so later in a charity shop I bought the disk the same as the tape I had lost.

Travel insurance is vital for trips to America. Medical costs there are very high so it acts as a safe guard just in case.

Oh my God!! Who else lost an SLR camera? You are reading her post right now!
. I am sorry that you had to go through that.

In my case my ex and I were on a trip, from Atlanta to New York and then to Niagara. There was a pit stop in between on our route from NY to Niagara (it was a bus trip).
My ex took a bunch of pics and I was holding our camcorder, so I was shooting with that.We than grabbed something to eat and then it was time to board the bus.
In the bus I was checking what I shot on the camcorder.

All of a sudden I realized I could not see our SLR.I asked him and he says, its with me.Then we searched like mad.We were traveling with another couple,they searched too.
I then looked at a part of the video I had shot, we left the camera on a bench!!!!!
God knows who's lucky day it was

So it didn't get stolen, but SLR gone

my keys lol.. though it was not stolen i left it at the restaurant since i didn't bring my bag that time. i just put it behind my jeans pocket and i took it out and put it on the table while eating. and so i forgot about it coz we are busy talking and we when we left i forgot about it. then while on our way back to the hotel thats the only time i realize that its not in my pocket. so we headed back to the restaurant to check and luckily, the table was already clean and yet our keys still there. though they said that they tried to call the hotel to remind them the we left the key at their restaurant.

We have a photo in frame taken when we were in Europe. The value was zero but the value in sentimental was huge. My family took that photo in frame everywhere of a special person in our lives. Never did know why it was taken from our motel room and nothing else was gone.

it was the start of our 12 day tour, and we had just arrived in one town, which was our base point and start of our journey.
There was a river there, and we decided to have a swim there.,
As soon as my son (aged 8 yrs) saw the river he began to undress to take a swim,
and he just jumped into the river;
The river water was just gushing out, as it had just rained the day before, my son who had jumped, slipped his drop and was starting to drown,
I immediately removed my pant, and went in to save him.
After returning I saw my pant had just vanished, along with it had gone my wallet, creditcards, identity cards, around 8000 dollars.
I was left with very little money and had to tour more 10days, luckily my wife and my mom had brought some money, and we just about finished our trip.
I really can forget that day

i never travel anywhere ever so i dont think i could get any of my things stolen for me at all. i would like to go traveling somewhere if i had the money to maybe i would get something stolen for me hope not

Some responder ruined your frame on your post. I hate people like that just isn't really worth bothering at all. Such annoyance. But I have lost stuff when I went traveling away from home. Not just going to the ball park or the park or zoo. But over to a different state. I lost my phone before and it was a horrible feeling to still be able to use your phone but lost it. It feels worse than losing your phone at home town. You can at least still get home. But image no phone and you lose your friends or family and you have to spend about 5 dollars for 2 min phone call to someone that may not pick up because its not your phone number and never get found.

Its a bummer.

God bless

Yes, I experienced it, in travel by airplane. But only a few packets of cigarettes. Cigarettes I save it in the bag (without key), I enter the baggage. Arriving at the destination, I could not find parking in my bag. I do not know, whether the loss occurred at the time of departure or arrival.