Set of lifts in a Cairo 5* hotel. Calling the lift is done by pressing a
centrally-located button in the lobby that requests a particular floor.
You are then directed to the relevant lift when it arrives. Once inside
the lift you can't "redirect" it to any additional floors.

I've seen one like that myself - I think it was in the office building
next to the NH hotel in Den Haag.

Neil


Heroically bonkers lifts in a Hotel in Manchester a few years ago
(overlooks Piccadilly Gardens - if you're local you'll know which one)
which seemed to go to the nearest floor when a button was pushed even
if you were IN TRANSIT and had ALREADY PASSED IT travelling in the
opposite direction ... ie. if you started on floor six, going down, and
were passing floor three when the button was pressed on floor four, then
the lift would stop and go back up to floor four. This then cancelled
any previous instructions, and you had to start again by pushing buttons
on floor four to go down ... unless someone pressed on floor five before
you got there ... on one occasion it was nearly half-an hour before a
car full of an increasing number of increasingly baffled and bewildered
passengers actually made it to the Ground floor ...

To add to this, the stairs were not an alternative, as they did not go
to ground level (oh yes, we tried ...) they dumped you out of an
emergency exit door (out only - you couldn't get back in !) onto a car
park deck two floors above the street level ! There was no further
pedestrian route ... you had to walk down the car ramps to get out ...
It might have satisfied the emergency regulations but it was NBU to
their Guests ...

C.