The Bay Mills Casino in Brimley, Michigan, is owned by the Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians and is located on the Bay Mills Reservation. It has a hotel too, and the last time we stayed there, we were given a key to room 425 and told that it was on the fourth floor. That was slightly bewildering since the hotel is only two stories tall. A quick look around revealed that the ground floor rooms were numbered in the 300's.
I surmised there must be a basement and sub-basement, but when we got on the elevator, we saw that the button panel had only two floors to choose from: 3 (the ground floor we were on) and 4 (our destination, one flight up).
They must have gotten a hell of a deal on something -- either the elevator car or a truckload of three-digit number signs starting with 3 and 4.
That is not the only hotel I've ever been in with a weird numbering scheme. At the small, old, quaint, and very French Hotel Brighton on Rue de Rivoli in Paris (which does have more than two floors), I stayed on the second floor in Room No. 1. There were two other rooms on that floor, Nos. 2 and 16.
Did the French and Indian War have anything to do with numbers?
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