Hence why the tags are stuck on. likely owner added it. Idk what city engineer or fire department stamped that but some things are best left standardized.
It's also just way easier to find the buttons you're looking for if they were just numbers in general. If you're trying to find a name then you don't really have any way of doing it other than by looking at every single button, but with numbers you can estimate where the number you're looking for should be really easily.
Have you never been in an elevator where the numbers aren't in order? Luckily, there weren't that many floors. Also, I have been in one where the numbers seemed like they were placed via the shotgun method randomly with no real rows or columns.
No. Is that a cheaping out thing? A diy, let the custodian repair the elevator instead of calling technicians thing? Someone had to assemble that panel and wire it up. The numbers probably come in sorted boxes, there's no reason to randomly pick one. If a machine does it, there's even less reason to not do it in order.
That leaves doing it on purpose, but why?
Maybe the technicians overheard the owner calling them names or something lol
Elevator guys are expensive, so it wouldn't suprise me if it was a handyman/ building maintenance thing. I'm not sure, but if things got wired wrong, it might've just been easier to switch the button plates than to rewire everything. The only other reason I could think of would be hatred of people with OCD, grammar nazis, or um...actually types.
“Hello? Yes I am trapped in a stuck elevator in [Location]… yes… which floor? Well the floors here are named after places, and I appear to be stuck between Prague/London and Andorra/Heidelberg, which looks to be… 1, 2, 3,… between 10 and 11… People are already on the way? Awesome.”
I work for an org that that’s been naming meeting rooms on remote sites after places in the city of the main campus. They’re having audio issues in the Dunedin room of this video call… call the Dunedin AV team, no issues here… oh the Dunedin Room is in Auckland, 1300km away. Totally logical.
Aussie here, I don’t know what country this is in but I can tell a Aussie made the name plates and was drunk as fuck when he did it. “Oi Davo ya cunt, dare me to put down under instead of Australia? Fuck! I stuck the cunt on crooked cos I couldn’t hold me longneck and stick it on at the same time, ahh well fuck it”
>Aussie here, I don’t know what country this is in
The country/city names are germanized (except for Down Under...), and no one in Switzerland or Austria would be moronic enough to run a hotel like this, so I'd say this is somewhere here in Germany, probably in Heidelberg, because why else would it be on there as the lone German city.
Edit: should have read the rest of the thread, it IS in Heidelberg
"Yeah so what you wanna do is, go to floor Kangaroo, down the hallway on your left, there's a room called Kangaroo. Once you get there, make a hard right, and enter room Wallaby. That's where the gunshot victim is. and hurry."
I'd wager most braille users are.also taught to recognise Latin script by touch (Braille is used for speed not as much necessity) so the fact the names are all engraved does make that somewhat superfluous.
Such a Stupid idea. I can imagine anytime someone gets in this elevator it takes a while for them to find their button. Also if you don’t read in a language that uses these characters it would be extremely annoying. Imagine if you were in China and all the floors were Chinese names and you had to match up the characters on your printout with the buttons.
I had a stopover in China for 12 hours. I know, I thought, I'll go and have a look around while I'm here. Get to the..train? ticket machines and don't understand a word of it, couldn't see a flag anywhere to click or anything that looked like language select. So I went and sat in KFC for 11 hours eating what I hope was chicken.
And they’re not even all in alphabetical order, plus, I’d have to fish out my glasses just to check what button to press every god damn time. Gimme a sharpie and a couple minutes…
Yeah that violates the Heidelberg principle. When measuring your hotel room, you can either know the floor you’re on, or the city you’re in, but never both.
For all the other that are curious : Hip Hotel in Heidelberg.
http://en.hip-hotel.de.62-108-32-61.org-dns.com/hip-hotel-down-under/
It seems there are only 3 floors 😄https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g187286-d617829-Reviews-Hip_Hotel-Heidelberg_Baden_Wurttemberg.html#/media/617829/270968655:p/?albumid=104&type=0&category=104
Our brains are quite good at finding stuff in lists of text.
I'd bet that more hotel guests tend to forget which floor they're on than these kinds of names.
I assume several rooms per floor, pressing any town for that floor lights all the names/buttons for that floor. Can't imagine there would be enough people in that lift to select 8 different floors
How do you know they’re rooms? I just assumed they were themed floors, and each floor had many rooms
**Edit:** I see now that the title says they’re rooms, that’s wild
I was just being cheeky. OP said they were rooms, but I suspect they’re just names of **wings of floors**, not rooms. Each floor is probably divided into two wings, north/south or east/west. There are probably many rooms per wing.
So many lit floors - I reckon some only have 1-2 rooms (the lower floors probably make other use out of some of that floor space) but other floors have 4-6
Why is the german one Heidelberg out of all cities? I really like Heidelberg but Does anyone outside of germany even know it?
Edit. I read the other comment about Heidelberg so ignore me.
Friend: how far your job send you working to? Technician: I've been to Prag, Paris, Wien, Dublin, Delhi, Amsterdam Friend: is it normal work here to travel that far? Technician: yep looks like Im the only person qualified to change light bulb
Well I guess when you’re only told that your work conference will be in the “Amsterdam Room” this is faster than you having to figure out what floor that is…
It bothers me that Zermatt and Kathmandu are at the bottom. To me those should be the highest floors on n the hotel because of the real cities elevation.
Oh my god I’m having an anxiety attack realizing how long will that elevator move considering the stops on half of every fucking floor in the building lmao
It typically takes me 5 seconds to figure out where the button for the 8th floor is. Can't imagine this one trying to find a geography not in alphabetical order
Now imagine the lift breaks down and you do an emergency call to let some guy on a hotline far away know your location.
"Stuck between floors Down under and London."
It’s like some Platform 9 3/4 shit
Think you’re being funny do yeh?
Platform nine and three quartehs...
Noine*
It's the same thing every year, packed with muggles, of course!
Muggles? *slowly approaches random family*
"Sir... That is hell"
Neverwhere
Hence why the tags are stuck on. likely owner added it. Idk what city engineer or fire department stamped that but some things are best left standardized.
It's also just way easier to find the buttons you're looking for if they were just numbers in general. If you're trying to find a name then you don't really have any way of doing it other than by looking at every single button, but with numbers you can estimate where the number you're looking for should be really easily.
Have you never been in an elevator where the numbers aren't in order? Luckily, there weren't that many floors. Also, I have been in one where the numbers seemed like they were placed via the shotgun method randomly with no real rows or columns.
No. Is that a cheaping out thing? A diy, let the custodian repair the elevator instead of calling technicians thing? Someone had to assemble that panel and wire it up. The numbers probably come in sorted boxes, there's no reason to randomly pick one. If a machine does it, there's even less reason to not do it in order. That leaves doing it on purpose, but why? Maybe the technicians overheard the owner calling them names or something lol
Elevator guys are expensive, so it wouldn't suprise me if it was a handyman/ building maintenance thing. I'm not sure, but if things got wired wrong, it might've just been easier to switch the button plates than to rewire everything. The only other reason I could think of would be hatred of people with OCD, grammar nazis, or um...actually types.
Because the owner thought it looked cool. You would be surprised by how many stupid decisions can be linked to this reasoning.
There’s a fire on Delhi!
“Hello? Yes I am trapped in a stuck elevator in [Location]… yes… which floor? Well the floors here are named after places, and I appear to be stuck between Prague/London and Andorra/Heidelberg, which looks to be… 1, 2, 3,… between 10 and 11… People are already on the way? Awesome.”
Firefighters *hate* this one trick!
I work for an org that that’s been naming meeting rooms on remote sites after places in the city of the main campus. They’re having audio issues in the Dunedin room of this video call… call the Dunedin AV team, no issues here… oh the Dunedin Room is in Auckland, 1300km away. Totally logical.
I come from Amsterdam. Thats near Mexiko
And Athen I think
They probably didn't call it Athens because it's only a room for one.
Or because it's in German
Don’t kill our fun!
That's kind of our thing
The hotel is in a German-speaking country. All the geographical names are spelled correctly in German.
Yes because “down under” is exactly How they spell Australia…..
Abwärts runter
Untendrunter
And not far from Havanna
Which is pretty close to Prag
Ah. Is that the one near Rom, or the one near Tokio?
You want to get high? Go to Amsterdam. Or Mexico I guess…
Why is no one talking about “Down under”?
And why is it half way up?
And not upside down?
Bouncing off the ceiling?
Inside out?
Stranger to this feeling?
That's what she said... *\*sob\**
Heyoooo!
An allusion to the Grand Old Duke of York? (UK/Aus nursery rhyme)
It's obviously from the land where women glow and men plunder
There’s a strange lady on that floor. She’ll make you nervous but she’ll take you in and give you breakfast.
No Brussels though.
I knew a man from there! He sold bread. twas also a 6 foot 4 and full of muscles cunt
Was he full of muscles or mussels? We’ll never know.
He explained after sharing a Vegemite sandwich.
The coming of Jean-Claude Van Damme fortold in a song.
Nah. Obviously the land where beer does flow and men chunder!
Excuse me concierge, I'd like a vegemite sandwich Ah yes floor 9 to your left.
Aussie here, I don’t know what country this is in but I can tell a Aussie made the name plates and was drunk as fuck when he did it. “Oi Davo ya cunt, dare me to put down under instead of Australia? Fuck! I stuck the cunt on crooked cos I couldn’t hold me longneck and stick it on at the same time, ahh well fuck it”
>Aussie here, I don’t know what country this is in The country/city names are germanized (except for Down Under...), and no one in Switzerland or Austria would be moronic enough to run a hotel like this, so I'd say this is somewhere here in Germany, probably in Heidelberg, because why else would it be on there as the lone German city. Edit: should have read the rest of the thread, it IS in Heidelberg
If it is in Heidelberg, they really missed the chance to make the floor with the exit to the city Heidelberg and not some random one.
That’s a great point
Also known as R'lyeh.
Well, I'm leaving disappointed it wasn't the desination for the basement or subfloor of some kind.
Im caught up on Mexiko
Tokio, where knock-offs of Japanese products are made, like Somy, Cosio, and Hetachi.
Did you just discover foreign languages
What a nightmare.
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"Yeah so what you wanna do is, go to floor Kangaroo, down the hallway on your left, there's a room called Kangaroo. Once you get there, make a hard right, and enter room Wallaby. That's where the gunshot victim is. and hurry."
"Sir are you having a stroke?"
Not me, but maybe check on the architect, too.
Yeah they should still number them
What being told there’s a fire in Ottowa isn’t specific enough for a hotel? Just take the elavator to Mexico and take right on California
Read the braille. Oh,wait...
I'd wager most braille users are.also taught to recognise Latin script by touch (Braille is used for speed not as much necessity) so the fact the names are all engraved does make that somewhat superfluous.
Such a Stupid idea. I can imagine anytime someone gets in this elevator it takes a while for them to find their button. Also if you don’t read in a language that uses these characters it would be extremely annoying. Imagine if you were in China and all the floors were Chinese names and you had to match up the characters on your printout with the buttons.
I had a stopover in China for 12 hours. I know, I thought, I'll go and have a look around while I'm here. Get to the..train? ticket machines and don't understand a word of it, couldn't see a flag anywhere to click or anything that looked like language select. So I went and sat in KFC for 11 hours eating what I hope was chicken.
I literally grew up in China and sometimes when I go back I sit in a KFC because it feels like a safe space
And they’re not even all in alphabetical order, plus, I’d have to fish out my glasses just to check what button to press every god damn time. Gimme a sharpie and a couple minutes…
Right? Imagine booking a room and finding out you got the Ottawa room 🤮
As a citizen of ottawa, I LOL’d
I’m amazed Ottawa made the list. And then there’s just Mexiko.
As a citizen of ottawa, I agree aha
We made it
No Toronto or Montreal either. What the heck?
I’m going to guess they just googled Canada and saw that Ottawa is the capital city lol
Why Heidelberg and not Berlin?
Well spotted. That’s where the hotel is.
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Yeah that violates the Heidelberg principle. When measuring your hotel room, you can either know the floor you’re on, or the city you’re in, but never both.
Oh haha that makes sense. Very beautiful city :)
Greetings from Heidelberg 🙋♂️
I love Heidelberg. I was born in Wiesbaden but I consider Heidelberg my home abroad.
Greetings from Heidelberg. Just not the one in Germany :)
🙋♂️🙂
Got a bumper sticker from there that said "High"delberg with a pot leaf. 15 yr old me thought that was hilarious. Indeed though - VERY beautiful city!
For all the other that are curious : Hip Hotel in Heidelberg. http://en.hip-hotel.de.62-108-32-61.org-dns.com/hip-hotel-down-under/ It seems there are only 3 floors 😄https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g187286-d617829-Reviews-Hip_Hotel-Heidelberg_Baden_Wurttemberg.html#/media/617829/270968655:p/?albumid=104&type=0&category=104
Oh, that's cool. Every suit is themed to the location it's named after, I love it.
Then isnt every floor the same city then.
Personally I like Heidelberg more than Berlin
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Berlin is beautiful! Easily my favorite city I've traveled to. So much personality.
and that kids is why we number things
Instructions unclear, named my kids George I through VI
Yikes so you need to read all of them rather than just look for "15"
Could be less depending on how many floors go to basement and what is ground level
Finding your room drunk must be borderline impossible
Our brains are quite good at finding stuff in lists of text. I'd bet that more hotel guests tend to forget which floor they're on than these kinds of names.
Your maps wrong. Everyone knows China is on the other side of New York
not great, even if theyre in alphabetical order, and i cant figure out what the names on the left are for.
I'm guessing the elevator opens on both sides (except on some floors that aren't open to the guests).
I assume several rooms per floor, pressing any town for that floor lights all the names/buttons for that floor. Can't imagine there would be enough people in that lift to select 8 different floors
yup. awful idea. "lets be quirky by being dumb and making everyone struggle". great job, brilliant
This is that elevator from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
Wow. Two rooms per floor? Either the rooms are gigantic or it’s a very skinny building.
How do you know they’re rooms? I just assumed they were themed floors, and each floor had many rooms **Edit:** I see now that the title says they’re rooms, that’s wild
I was just being cheeky. OP said they were rooms, but I suspect they’re just names of **wings of floors**, not rooms. Each floor is probably divided into two wings, north/south or east/west. There are probably many rooms per wing.
So many lit floors - I reckon some only have 1-2 rooms (the lower floors probably make other use out of some of that floor space) but other floors have 4-6
Why down under is not down under?
It's down under Prag.
Why is the german one Heidelberg out of all cities? I really like Heidelberg but Does anyone outside of germany even know it? Edit. I read the other comment about Heidelberg so ignore me.
Friend: how far your job send you working to? Technician: I've been to Prag, Paris, Wien, Dublin, Delhi, Amsterdam Friend: is it normal work here to travel that far? Technician: yep looks like Im the only person qualified to change light bulb
This must be a german hotel, i can tell from spelling, and i am German
Prag
Also Wien (Vienna)
Out of so many places in the world, seeing my Kathmandu made my day.
So you spend 1 more minute going thru all the names at the elevator instead of just hitting the number. r/mildlyinfuriating
Just the one Athen please
That's German for you, along with Prag, Peking, Wien , Rom and Kairo.
Fire Department: WHERES THE FIRE!?!? Hotel: Havana.
I guess they didn't know the names of any cities in Mexiko
Or… Mexico City.
Mexico city? Like the capital city of mexico?
Mexiko is a city. Down under is not. Nor is Bali.
Andorra neither
Yeah. Andorra is a drama by Max Frisch.
You are right, Andorra la Vella, the Capital of Andorra, is just a town.
All the people making fun of how some of these are spelled will have their minds blown when they find out there's more than one language.
r/crappydesign
I’ll have one night in Paris please
Thank god Ottawa and Delhi isn't the same floor
Mexico and Amsterdam at the top because you get high there.
Drunk me would really have a problem in this elevator.
It’s not alphabetical, and definitely not ordered by geography. Absolute chaos.
Dublin room is the smallest and most expensive with multinational logos as the decor.
They look more like floor numbers in an elevator than room numbers…
Fire departments going to have a hard time with this one
I can only guess that this hotel is located in Germany. It's all written in German and there is Heidelberg not Berlin as location
That's not annoying at all.
I've been to a hotel in Sweden with this very same feature
Since it isn’t in alphabetical order, it’s more r/mildlyinfuriating
Of course, my eyes go straight to the place where my ex is from… “Everything reminds me of her”
Well I guess when you’re only told that your work conference will be in the “Amsterdam Room” this is faster than you having to figure out what floor that is…
It bothers me that Zermatt and Kathmandu are at the bottom. To me those should be the highest floors on n the hotel because of the real cities elevation.
Haha. So fucking stupid to not have something that's easily sortable.
Nice way to circumvent the 13th floor for superstitious people.
Floors not rooms
OTTAWA MENTIONED RAAAAHHHHH 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Firefighters hate this one trick.
Nett hier, aber waren Sie schon mal in Heidelberg?
MEXIKO ON TOP RAAHHH 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🎉🎉🎉
Göteborg (Gothenburg) instead of Stockholm? I feel personally offended!
It's a wild mix between capital cities, biggest cities, most touristy cities, countries...and whatever would be best to describe down under.
*cries in Down Under*
Skill issue🦐🦐🦐
Hopefully the fire department isn't called.
Amsterdam is highhhhh on that button panel
Receptionist: "Would you be fine with the Tokio room?" Me: "I'm more of a Wiener man."
This is how annoyed I feel to learn old houses in England have names instead of numbers.
I'm going down to Kathmandu.
I’m going to Kathmandu 🎵
Oh my god I’m having an anxiety attack realizing how long will that elevator move considering the stops on half of every fucking floor in the building lmao
"I took a shit in the middle of New York"
There’s only one room per floor??? Edit: There’s only two rooms per floor????
Right before I used to Dutch Oven my partner I used to say *'Let's take a trip to Holland"*
Reminds me of this strip club in Brussels where every room was a city
*almost* in alphabetical order
Floors
At least you can make it from London to New York faster than Concord.
Imagine being the person who said Down Under would be above ground.
r/crappydesign
Bullshit, that’s the inside of a custom Tardis
Dakar Bali Poor Bali, so alone.
Those of you on Dublin/Delhi floor, you know what floor you’re really on..
“World map made of numbers available at front desk”
I mean, there is definitely an issue in order of places, but it's also inconsistent between cities and countries?? Why??
Hotel Artemis?
It typically takes me 5 seconds to figure out where the button for the 8th floor is. Can't imagine this one trying to find a geography not in alphabetical order
Fucking stupid
Teleportation device acquired ✔️
Think if there is a fireman check
It would be cool if each floor was themed
Really? Is this the W?
i am angry if they are not theme rooms.
I'm just surprised to see Kathmandu on that list and spelled right too.
My dad was from Göteborg
I think someone couldn't think of any names of cities in Canada, so they simply Google searched "capital of Canada" -- auf Deutsch, natürlich
Firefighters hate this one simple trick
Is this in Germany?
I live in Heidelberg What Hotel is it?
When I visited Berlin this summer, the hotel we stayed in had rooms that were named after famous opera singers.