The 7 Best Hotel Door Locks In 2025 For A Modern Hotel
Operto integrates with over 65 locks, but these industry heavyweights stand out as some of the most reliable, scalable and best supported.
They’re the first thing guests encounter when they reach their room and often the last thing they interact with when they leave your hotel.
But as an owner or manager in the hotel industry, hotel room locks can be an understandable source of major anxiety over security, ease-of-use, guest experience, and reliability, especially when you’re not on site.
The inescapable reality is that updating your hotel room locks is a considerable investment—and often done as little as once a decade. It’s critical to your operation to make sure that you get it right.
With an overwhelming number of different locks, gadgets, and new systems on the market, making the right choice for your hotel can be a challenge. At Operto, we’re experts in making sure your systems are super-connected, modern, accessible, and work for you – and your hotel door safety locks are no different.
To help, we’ve picked some of our favourite super-connected, super-secure, electronic door safety locks.
All of them partner with a variety of centralized PMS hubs and app-connected systems—including the Operto system —to help you choose the most up-to-date, convenient, reliable, easy-to-use, and safe locks for you, your hotel, and your guests.
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Enhancing your smart lock system.
Mobile keys vs key cards vs keypads
Before you decide what kind of key your hotel’s new doors will have, it’s important to set goals and understand expectations. What are you hoping to achieve? If you’re looking to stay ‘business as usual’, you might be looking into hotel electronic door lock systems that use key cards. While plastic magstripe keycards might be the cheapest form of room access, it doesn’t provide added value or ROI to hotels. It means you’ll need staff on-site, so operating expenses stay high.
Mobile keys might be a popular form of keyless entry and hotel automation, but they’re often not an adequate alternative, especially if your goal is to reduce operating expenses. For one, phone batteries can die. Second, older generations are still not comfortable depending on their phones for entering their rooms. Both options mean you’ll still need staff at the front desk “just in case”.
Finally, smart locks with keypads provide a keyless experience that can work without a phone or a key. It provides the most secure form of access for hotels while allowing them to start their digital transformation into a modern-day form of operations.
The reason we advocate for keypad locks is that they are the only form of guest entry that is foolproof, thus not requiring any fallback check-in option. When using a keycard or a mobile key solution, you rely on an app. Unfortunately, most guests don’t want to use an app, whether due to lack of smartphone literacy, app fatigue, unintuitive user experience, their batteries dies or they run out of data. Most of the time, 85% of people will steer clear of any app download.
Typical fallback options we hear about before switching to Operto include:
- 24/7 front desk (which really only viable in large properties)
- Lockboxes for every single room containing a keycard. Guests call you to request the lockbox code when they arrive.
- On-call staff that lives nearby and are available to drive out and meet clients 24/7 (not a great guest or staff experience)
Best hotel locks for 2025. Fully compatible with Operto Connect.
Regardless of your safety lock for hotel door requirements, there’s something in this list to suit your needs – all of which can integrate with the Operto Connect platform and it’s suite of hospitality efficiency products.
Salto KS
Salto locks use the Salto KS cloud-based smart lock system, which can be used via its own app or the Operto YourKey Mobile key – the companion app for Operto Guest
Salto XS4
Assa Abloy Vingcard Allure
VingCard Allure is a highly innovative electronic locking solution with a unique, flexible design
Yale Linus® Smart Lock
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Yale nexTouch Series
The Yale Access App
Igloohome smart locks and lock boxes
Operto Guest Technologies
Modern hotel and vacation rental lock technology platform.
Some key things to remember.
A modern hotel door safety lock is not just a fancy keypad. Each comes with it’s own unique benefits and potentially unseen liabilities depending on your business’s unique needs and existing infrastructure.
The hospitality touch point you can’t afford to get wrong.
There’s no denying smart hotel door lock technology has come on in leaps and bounds in the past few years, making a connected system a smart choice – literally! – for your next hotel door lock revamp.
Not sure which lock is right for your hotel or vacation rental?