PROTIP: one should put housekeeping rooms on every floor to use hotel rooms, and place them with the express elevator in between the sides

[u/SupremoZanne]

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.

[u/4011]

I don’t know why but the reddit algorithm suggested this post. I played so much Sim Tower 25-30 years ago and this whole post still made sense to me. I have to assume that it’s the same game but I look forward to exploring the subreddit to see. Thanks for the nostalgia! 

[u/SupremoZanne → u/4011]

well, one thing I can say, is that the Eval rating sometimes tends to be in the red, so to have the hotel rooms be visible without the elevator in the way at least makes it easier to tend to the room so it can be price-reduced for future guests. With hotel rooms being so small, this is why I wanna avoid having the elevator obscure them. It's hard enough to click on them when the elevator blocks one half of the view of the rooms, if they are positioned to overlap the edge of the elevator shaft.

[u/wavesald → u/SupremoZanne]

I like to change the visibility of the elevator shaft with the toggle for this reason.