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Wednesday, August 07, 2013
An Unusual Hotel
We stayed in a hotel near Providence, RI, with the following strange set of choices of elevator buttons:
There are apparently two different floors numbered 4 -- on different levels -- and no floor 3. And why do the restrooms need their own floor?
Why are there apparently two sets of "open doors" and "close doors" buttons? And given the recent news about the "close doors" button not actually doing anything in most elevators, why have any at all?
So the third floor is actually the one called 4A? And does the restroom button actually go to a floor filled with restrooms? On what floor was this located? In between 4A and 4B?
Wondering if perhaps there was some city ordinance that said any building 5 floors and up must have... or must pay extra... or something like that. So the builders decided -- wishfully thinking -- to skirt that ordinance.
I once stayed in a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, but that's another story ...
ReplyDeleteIronically, in China (some?) hotels don't even have a fourth floor. Apparently, the word for four sounds like the word for death.
ReplyDeletePerhaps 4A and 4B are not different floors, but use either the front or back doors of the elevator?
ReplyDeleteNo, they were really different floors.
ReplyDeleteWhy are there apparently two sets of "open doors" and "close doors" buttons? And given the recent news about the "close doors" button not actually doing anything in most elevators, why have any at all?
ReplyDeleteI'm in Providence quite often. May I ask which hotel that was?
ReplyDelete~~ Paul
Is the restroom button the red one under the LL button. If that's the case it would seem to be useful.
ReplyDeleteSo the third floor is actually the one called 4A? And does the restroom button actually go to a floor filled with restrooms? On what floor was this located? In between 4A and 4B?
ReplyDeletePerhaps R is the rear door, and the fact that it leads to the restrooms is just a coincidence?
ReplyDeletePost Modernist architecture? Wonder what order the floors are in if you use the stairs. Does the S at the top stands for Sky?
ReplyDeleteI mean 7 1/2 I can understand but 4A and 4B?
ReplyDeleteWas the restaurant on the same floor as the restrooms? Cycle of life, etc.
ReplyDeleteWondering if perhaps there was some city ordinance that said any building 5 floors and up must have... or must pay extra... or something like that. So the builders decided -- wishfully thinking -- to skirt that ordinance.
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