And I Thought There Was Only One Way to Ride an Elevator

A fun thing about travel is seeing how there are things you know, things you don’t know, and things you didn’t know you didn’t know–like an alternative system for elevators.

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4 Replies to “And I Thought There Was Only One Way to Ride an Elevator”

  1. I believe that elevator will operate automatically on the Sabbath when an extreme interpretation of “rest” includes not pushing elevator buttons. We were in Israel 31 years ago and at sundown on Friday, the hotel elevators went on “automatic” and just stopped at every floor. At sundown on Saturday, they resumed their “normal” push-the-button pattern.

  2. Rick – You don’t have to go to Israel to find these new elevators. They have been installed at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, although they don’t have the spiffy flat panel elevator status screens. I too was baffled at first, looking for floor buttons inside the elevator car. The only downside is you can’t change your mind mid-ride.

    Our next RS tour stop is Turkey, beginning May 13th, so we may be are in country when you are there. It would be a nice treat for you to meet up with our Best of Turkey tour.

  3. I stayed in a hotel with a similar elevator system in Paris, France near the Eiffel Tower in 2009.

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