Hotel management question

At Hamptons, it seems like I am always on the damn third floor. Always.

I worked in hotels in high school and college. Front Desk.

The hotel maids are assigned a block of rooms, that are usually all next to each other for efficiency purposes. A maid might be responsible for say 12 rooms. If you have a 120 room hotel, that's 10 maids on the clock each day.

Well if you only have 48 rooms filled, you want to spread those 48 rooms around, so you don't have four maids doing 12 rooms each and the others not working. That makes no sense. You'd rather have all the maids come in, do a few rooms each, and clock out.

You also want rooms used pretty evenly so no one room is overused.

Finally, guests would rather spread themselves out, if you have no one on either side of you, it will be quieter.

My Marriott profile requests a high floor away from the elevator. They do a pretty good job honoring it.

Ironically, I'm posting from my room on a low-ish floor a room down from the elevator shaft.

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They probably want the rooms used somewhat evenly.

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They do, and the property management systems will always try and spread out reservations for just that reason.

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I might be on the 3rd floor of 3 when it looks like the hotel has only less than a fourth of the building full.

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High floors are generally more desirable so they're often the first rooms assigned.

If have a specific request, just let the desk know. They'll take care of it.

A lot of times you can e-check in from your Hilton Honors account and choose the room you would like. Have you ever tried that? Personally I like to be on a high floor and away from the elevator. I generally take the stairs in a property like Hampton.