Originally Posted by
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Just 400 rooms on 50 floors means 8 to 10 rooms per floor on average maximum (but is this a tower that's straight up and down or slightly pyrmaidic and thus with narrower floors towards the top than the bottom?). That sounds like a high ratio of elevator space to floor space (how many elevators do you need for a 50-floor tower?).
The Candlewood on 39th St (in the Tri-Pack) that KathyWdrf mentioned has 6 rooms per floor. While it would seem that every room would have to be right next to the elevators, that is not how the hotel is laid out. The center of the floor is occupied by two separate stairways. The elevators are at one end of the floor, so only two of the six rooms are right next to the elevators.
The Staybridge has a similar layout, but it's been over a year since I last stayed in it, so I don't really remember it that well.