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I'm pretty sure that all the stay floors are different colors. I do not remember seeing a mural. The 4th floor was a blueish grey color and the floors below that we're different as well. I think floor 2 was bright yellow but I'm still not totally sure which floors are "stay" and which were...

Yes. I believe that we were in the elevator on the 8th in the morning around 9-9:30ish. I am also pretty sure it was the elevator with the panel of buttons on the left. So the opposite elevator that elisa was in.

I definitely saw the button light up but I did not see for sure if a worker put a key in or did anything else to enable that button. I am 90% sure though that the workers simply pushed the B button and it worked.

I can confirm that the B button lights up. I never hit the button but I was in the elevator a couple of times when workers were in there and pressed the B button and it did light up and does indeed go to the basement (I took an accidental ride down there when I got on the elevator too early and...

I am pretty sure elevator 1 was the left elevator. I remember using the right elevator consistently after that day.

This is interesting... It must have been on Feb 8th or soon after that. The last time I remember using that elevator was late the night of the 8th. The morning of the 9th it was stuck on the 7th floor for the rest of the duration of my stay.

Again I wish I be 100% sure but I am not. I do think that I remember seeing mirrors at MOST if not all of the floors at the hotel though.

You nailed it. I do this at MOST hotels I go to. Have for years. As I stated in a previous post I am a photographer and I am always looking for new vantage points. It's also a bit of an adventure because all hotels are different. The big draw recently is to launch an RC helicopter off the top of...

I can say with a good amount of certainty that both elevators had the 15th floor button while we were there. At least until "Elevator 1" went out of order and we were unable to access that elevator.

Haha I can totally see why you are questioning this. I lived in LA for 7 years and moved away for a few years for work and am in the process of moving back. I was in town for a few jobs and meetings, the first of which were in DTLA. I am also really interested and inspired by sketchy industrial...

Interesting! I can totally verify that you do not need a room card to use either of the 2 elevators in the Cecil/Stay hotel. I feel like if I wanted to I could go back to the hotel and get to any location in building (including the roof) with no keycard and not being a guest. I was asked by...

We saw no one at all during our trip up the elevator, down the 15th floor hallway, onto the fire escape and onto the roof. Nor on the way back to our room. In fact I don't remember seeing anyone other than people in the lobby and people waiting for the elevator. The security at this building...

I have to agree with you that a girl traveling alone should not ever stay at a place like this. But I also want to defend Elisa a bit... She had no idea that the place she was going was a dangerous place. Looking at the Stay on Main website it appears as a hip young international traveler...

I can verify that I had a keycard for our room on the 4th floor and I can also verify that all the other doors on the 4th floor are keycard accessed including the showers and bathrooms. I can also verify that rooms on the 14th floor are accessed by key and it appears that "Stay" has to get a key...

We went to the 4th floor where we stayed and to the 15th floor (highest you can get on an elevator) so that we could access the roof. Other than that we only passed through floors 1-4 as we descended to the ground level via the stairs because only one elevator was working during most of our...