2. Using information provided in this chapter or acquired elsewhere, sketch to approximate scale a typical room with furnishings that Choice Hotels might be building in Europe. (That requires dimensions to be in meters and square meters.) Above the drawing list the several assumptions as 1,2,3,.n that your drawing relies upon. Cite references external to the text if used. 3. Using information provided in this book or acquired elsewhere, estimate the total square feet of New York City's Four Seasons Hotel. Show the several mathematical steps and label all of your figures. Room shape Chepter 3 * The stuctures of me Wotel induntry Lintle has changed in the shape of guet rooms, lateriat romeni rake shape frum the eatrriot devien (coneave, squars, round) of the botel. 1 Research asay eventually show preatre gater atinfactory of reduced wear from errain shapek thatil then, the parallelogram temains the Castic favorite with the room depth approximately twice its width. Increases in toom siae are fint made by addeng to the depth. Width is increased next, barping the itandard 12 -or 13. foot width to 16 freti a lusurious room. Round buidling may have an exterior appeal, bot presest internal peoblems. The. eater walls are rounded and the inner walls are angled. That's the only mean of accommodating the hutb and the central eore within the erost section of too small a diametec. It's a rare hotel that' eound. Rooms get a more spacious look when there is a balcony, either teal oe false, writh French or slediog doom. The balcony also adds intereat to the facade. Room Sixe Room shape is architecturally driven but foom sire is a financial/atarketing decision. Eeonony clas hoteli have capitalued on smaller accommoducions and smaller rates, reasting the general moweasent to cuer-larger rooms. The tate that the goest is willing to pay determines the roomb sine, furnishings, and amenities. Markets vary hotel to hotel. The whin dooble beds of the family-oricnted hotel would not appeal to upucale business travelers. Comparing room sizes amoeg hotels highlights the difficully of davifying the world's hotels as one industry. Chapter 2 S diveusion of hard budgets identified coprule rooms of 5 fect in width, 5 fect in beight, and less than 7 fect in lengeh. That's less than 35 rquare feet- 75 cubic fect! Rooms in London' easyHlosel chain are 60 wquare fect. Most other hard bodgets are largec. Accor' 1 lbis chain (chiefly Europe) has rooms of approximately. 130 square feet ( 12 square incters). Compare that to roorns in Econo Lodyes and Super 8s, which are almont 200 square feet (ncaitly 19 viqute meters). Surprisingly, todays budget rooens are as large as those of a first-das commercial hotel of 100 years ago. The Peajamin Franklin Hocel (Exhibit 3-15) had rooms of 150175 square fect. Rooms in today's Slecp inns, Choice. Hotel' bedget chain, are hieger at 210 square fect. The Far East has rooms at the other ead of the icalc. A standard room at Hong Kong's Shangri-Ea is 500 square feet, which includes the bath. That size is immediately recognized as super laxury. To senerate a luxarious feeling, toom sire mast exceed 400 square fect. New York City's Four Seasons hotel compares favorably with its worldwide cohorts. Room and bath total 600 square feet {55.75 whare metersl. That contrasts with the typi:cal room and bath of 250 -350 square fect (23.332.5 square meters). Total Square Footage A hotel's total square footage cannot be determined by simply multiplying the sige of the average goest room by the number of rooms. The compotation must include service areas, lobbics, corndors, storage, offices, and public space. Total space is almost double that needed for guest rooms alone. Even then, allowances must be made for the size, type, and class of hotel. Full-service, convention properties compute total space needed at 9001,200 square feet per room. That's three to four times a room's actual measurement. Econorny propertics with no public space are the other end of the spectrum. Total footage is calculated at about 600 square fect per roome two to three times the typical gucst room sire. All-suite hotels are a contrast to standard hotels and even to each other. All-suites are segmented into economy, mid-market, and upycale groupings. Sire is the distinction because the renmal unit's content (bedroom, parlor, bath, kitchenette) is the same for the three segments. Guest Quarters pioneered the type with a 650 -square-feet unir. The bud. get room of AmeriSuites is about 380 square feet. Fireplaces carty Homewood Suifes th 550 square feet. Extended-stay suites that measure 400550 square fect are the sine of standard apartment in many large cities of the Unitied Statest. difterent shapes for its 104 rooms