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2 & A a FY Fy - s 2 464 Layout and area requirements Different types of hotel offer varying standards of quelity and facies. Hotels may be part of a chain or independent. Where hotels do form part of a chain, special design requirements may be imposed. Hote! types include town hotel, holiday hotels, clubs, hotels with apartments and motels. Accommodation taclites, including rooms, toilet bathrooms, shower rooms, ete, hallways and floor servic should eccupy 50-60% ofthe floor area, Public quest rooms, 2 Feception area, hall and lounges require 4-7%, and hospitality areas, restaurants, and bars for guests and visitors 48%, A HOTEL LAYOUT AND AREA REQUIREMENTS 914%, administration, management end secretarial 1-2% ‘maintonance and repair 47%, and leisure, sport, shops and a hairdressing salon 2-10%. ‘Special areas for seminars, heath centres ond outdoor facilities, for whieh the space requited can vary vremendously, ‘may sls0 be needed, nal systems of clasiication, compulsory or voluntary, in range of eategories and method of designation letters figures, stars, erowns ete). Over 100 clasiication systems are inuse, most based on the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) _— ame tH = ee] ee] fe) Pee I re Tae | ae, ouion cee " sea i = a ; CI EUAI I y “oto eur TI a gee | omens i =p] =" i wae |f me Gina eu © ‘Wot teratanahipn tween ome on tel rend ear © sain botwnen ties and put rome aw Poa wena et © swooom erangement @ Mima song bownen HOTEL LAYOUT AND AREA REQUIREMENTS Hotels offer sitferent types of accommodation, including bedrooms, suites, selfeatring units and epariments using the hotel services (G9. The sie and number of beds largely dictates dimensions and layout of rooms, eg. twin 100/200¢m, double 150'200cm ‘een seo 168/200em, or king size 700/200em, Rooms may ince 2 siting area with chars, a desk TV, self service drinks veigeator nd suitease stan Corridor spsce should be about rm per room, and normaly at least 15-180m wide. Separate routes should be provided for ‘rom parking areas throu 58 hotl Customers move lowed to go from bedrooms dest to the ear park without pasting though reception, Suitable ve escape routes mest be provided to met lagisation. Staff move fom Staff housing, via their own entrance and changing rooms. to bites, service areas, bars, workshops, ee All deliveries must be taken to the correct department or storage area, perhaps using special it. Dispsate should be from epoca rated over ares to visual media rooms projection equipment, simultaneous translation facities, copying machines, fax machines and telephones, Hotois shoud provide fciltes for tne handicapped and disabled In at least 1-2% of rooms, prelerely onthe ground floor, and wth the following minimum criteria ramps 1:20, caridors 918mm wid, {dors 815mm car opening, lobbies 480mm wider than the door on tho atch sao, closet doors either narrow or siting, shelves 237m high: Bathrooms: ental trning space 152m, width 2 75m, varity tops 860mm high, 85mm knee space, mierore extending down 12 needed on tho hosdwall and sides ofthe bath and tol. Standard bedrooms, 385m wide, can be adspted fo the following crite switches 1.2m high, space betwaen beds and furitore 810mm, brels 450-S00mm igh with tov space below. Eye level from 3 wheelchair is 107-17, dressing tables should allow fr this nd g © arom hotel oom D Povbte ve in sconamy ota @ tore rom psomviser GD Avaienot Coa 465, @ tet tor mt ol oh ar 1 semsamy § i : ate’ door anangarent ® eireaina 1-2 poe © costery ma pan waning 466, © costes od eee HOTEL LAYOUT AND AREA REQUIREMENTS Rostaurants/eatering Care should be exercised when sizing restaurants on the basis of people per square metre since circulation requirements and table layouts, etc, vary considerably. The following table gives

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