This isn't about the hallway so much as the doors in the hallways of the Hotel National in Moscow near my room (didn't wander around so I'm not sure if this is true of every floor). Each room was reached by a short flight of steps from the hallway.
We'd arrived at something like 1AM local time and had an early meeting the next day. I was sad when the folks next to me were checking out veeeery early and weren't being particularly quiet. They threw open their door and then I heard the sound of someone falling down those steps.
Probably not nice of me, but I went back to sleep giggling to myself.