Wow!

Jan. 14th, 2007 08:33 pm
[identity profile] bobquasit.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] arisia
I'd heard that the hotel was small, but I had no idea just HOW small it was - I feel like William Shatner at the end of season 2 on original Trek. *

Just a suggestion: If there's enough Security available, it would be a great idea to station someone outside the elevator banks on every floor to avoid overloading. And whoever it was who had the idea to require everyone to exit at the top and bottom floors: thank you! "Up to go down" may have been acceptable at the Park Plaza, but it's definitely not an option at the Hyatt.

Looking forward to the next Arisia...and hoping that after that, we'll have a bigger hotel...

PS - One suggestion: since a lot of editions of Clear Ether disappeared kind of quickly, perhaps PDFs could be posted on the Arisia website?


* - Specifically, right after he took off his girdle.

Date: 2007-01-15 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tehuti.livejournal.com
Imhotep?

Date: 2007-01-15 07:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quietann.livejournal.com
Part of the problem is that hotel was not designed for Arisia-sized events. Their function space is quite handy for weddings (up to about 300-400 guests) on the top floors or business meetings on the first floor. No one was thinking 2000 people when the hotel was designed. Gaylaxicon a few years ago was about 750 and that was at the outer limit of comfortable.

It's not ideal, but with less than a year to find a hotel it was the best of several alternatives.

Date: 2007-01-15 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/
You aren't supposed to use elevators during a fire and they usually return to the ground floor and stay there if there is a fire. That's true of all buildings, if the Park Plaza has a fire the evacuation will be by stairs also.
The fire department can operate the lifts to evacuate disabled people if they think it safe, or they can be carried down stairs if the lifts are inoperable. The stairwells of the Hyatt are behind fire doors from most of the building, so should remain usable even if there is a fire in the middle of a floor.

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