About Hotels in Central Florida

Factual Questions
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There are two ways for a hotel designer to approach the question of where to put the doors to the rooms. One way is for the rooms to be arranged along a long, central hallway, and the doors to the rooms are inside the building. Another way is to arrange the rooms so that the doors open to the outside; there is no central hallway.

In central Illinois, at least, almost all hotels and motels, even cheap McMotel places like Super 8 and whatnot, employ the inside door option. 99% of the places with outside doors are seedy drug places.

Central Florida, OTOH, seems to employ the outside door configuration for every hotel there I’ve ever seen. From the cheapest McMotel to the highest-end Disney properties, the rooms all have doors that open to the outside.

I do not understand this at all. The only thing I can think of is that the climate is more agreeable in central Florida and guests won’t mind walking to the soda machine/ice machine/guest services outside. It certainly can’t be a matter of cost; if it were, McMotels in Illinois would be built with doors to the outside, too.

Anyone know the scoop? And can anyone name a hotel in central Florida with doors that open to the inside?

TIA

2

I’m pretty sure most high end hotels have interior hallways.

I’m almost 100% sure the high end Disney hotels the Swan and Dolphin have inside doors. BTW, even though they are on Disney land they are actually run by other companies - Hilton and Hyatt are the 2 that come to mind.

3

I’ve been to many hotels there where you enter the room from an indoor hallway.

The Portofino (spelling?)
The Wilderness lodge (disney)
The Polynesian (disney)

I can’t remember the names of the other’s, but there’s three to start off. Like you said, it probably has something to do with the weather.

4

Climate has a lot to do with it. Many school buildings in FL have no interior corridors. Airish as oppossed to enclosed is the most practical design in hot and humid environments.