A "hotel elevator" refers to the lift or vertical transportation system found inside a hotel building, used to move people between different floors or levels of the hotel. Full definition
All Junior Suites are located near hotel elevators and therefore not ideal for noise sensitive guests. (fairmont.com)
Sandler tapped friends in South Africa to help him locate agents there and even recruited three men as agents for other African countries when he happened to hear them speaking among themselves in another language in a Las Vegas hotel elevator. (inc.com)
The juxtaposition is awkward and obvious, because Smith plays for the same team that employed Ray Rice before he knocked his fiancée out in a casino hotel elevator. (si.com)