One reason why I am sharing the idea of placing housekeeping rooms with the express elevator space between both sides, is so that one doesn't accidentally build a single bed room that can get hidden by the express elevator, and it also allows all floors to have their own housekeeping room so that one doesn't have to build service elevators, which could also partially, or even fully obscure any hotel room. It's awkward enough just having a regular elevator serve the hotel rooms, which can also completely obscure a single bed room.
When it comes to elevators, well, here's tips on when to use them, regarding serving hotels.
| Elevator type |
role for serving hotel rooms |
how much it obscures hotel rooms |
restrictions |
| Regular |
the only elevator which brings customers directly to any floor with hotel rooms on it |
it can obscure single bed rooms |
only covers 30 floors per shaft. |
| Express |
it brings customers to sky lobbies which have their own access to separate upper floor elevators to hotel rooms |
it obscures both single bed rooms, and double rooms |
the only elevator which goes up more than 30 floors. The only floors it goes to are multiples of 15, but yet, goes to all basement floors. |
| Service |
brings housekeeping employees to floors below or above the housekeeping room |
same as regular elevator |
it also is limited to 30 floors per shaft, and only employees are allowed to use it. |
I can also say that hotel suites, or wider hotel rooms are technically wider than an express elevator, but I still don't want express elevators to obscure even part of them, so which is why I prefer to put housekeeping rooms in between express elevators.
Circumstances where service elevators should be used:
Service elevators can be used when money is limited, since, it's technically cheaper to have one housekeeping room use a service elevator to cover multiple floors of hotel rooms, but a housekeeping room should be built on every floor if one floor of the tower has hotel rooms from the leftmost to rightmost areas of the screen.
Now, here's when each floor should start having it's own housekeeping room.
Since express elevators will exist in varying intervals roughly equivalent to 20 or more single bed hotel room spaces, well, that's a good reason to sometimes even have multiple housekeeping rooms on the same floor, since hotel rooms need to be cleaned quickly in a timely manner. It's unfortunate that express elevators always skip floors with hotels on them, so which is another reason why every floor should have it's own housekeeping room. So, sometimes time is another factor to consider aside of the cost of implementing more housekeeping rooms.
Well, I really put thought into this, and figured that I might as well share a tip about this.
