Hello all, newbie here. I've been following the threads on this and I am confused about the hotel itself. Sorry if this has already been addressed; I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the posts!
I did a google street view of the exterior of the hotel and, including the ground floor, there are 14 windows/floors running vertically up the building. The elevator panel pictures that have been posted show 15 floors. Taking into account there is no 13th floor, and they have labeled one floor Lobby and one Mezzanine, I'm confused. If you count the windows (including the ground floor), you have 14 floors, so the windows of the building should match up with the number of buttons on the elevator. However, when I write it out, I can't find the 15th floor, unless the Mezzanine level doesn't have windows.
1 - lobby
2 - mez
3 - 2nd
4 - 3rd
5 - 4th
6 - 5th
7 - 6th
8 - 7th
9 - 8th
10 - 9th
11 - 10th
12 - 11th
13 - 12th
14 - 14th
I wasn't able to access the links to pictures that someone posted of the maintenance shack on the roof, so I'm hoping that someone could confirm that the elevator doesn't go up to the roof.
Also, I've worked in hotels before and it can be very easy to get the master keys. One place I worked had them sitting in an unlocked drawer. Granted, we had keycards and not physical keys for guest rooms, but there were no check out protocols for the keys. If you needed them, you asked for them or just took them.
Additionally, I could see staff members leaving the doors to the roof unlocked, so it would be easier to take smoke breaks. I wouldn't be surprised if they were unlocked an hour into a shift and locked just before a shift ended.