Staff & Hotel Policies - Service Elevator - A Tribute to the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

At serviceElevator.com, it is NOT our intention to flood your inbox with emails. By joining the email list, you will most likely here from us on an “every now and then basis”. serviceElevator.com will never share you email or personal information with anyone in this dimension, or for that matter, any other dimension. While we will try and email updates in a timely manner, we suggest you “check in” to the Hotel often to stay on top of all the latest and greatest happenings. Also, be sure and check out all of serviceElevator’s message boards. There are plenty of topics to discuss and it’s a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with other Disney enthusiasts. If your not camera shy, be sure and email us a picture of you and your family/friends in front of one of Disney’s four Towers (California, Florida, Tokyo, Paris). We will add your picture to the Haunted Service Elevator on the main page for all to see! And don’t forget to ride the service elevator to one of the Hotel’s 13 floors. Each floor is specifically themed so be sure and check out every one of them. You can access different floors from the Hotel Directory. Lastly, don’t forget to check out the Hotel Gift Shop on the 3rd floor. Here you will find some cool serviceElevator swag including limited edition website launch T-shirts and bumper stickers. Please be sure and check back often. We have some neat stuff planned for the future.

Gotta comment about the website? We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to drop an email to hoteloperator@serviceelevator.com. We hope you enjoy your stay and look forward to your return visit
real soon.

P.S. You can help support our website by shopping at The Hotel Gift Shop located on the 3^rd Floor. And don’t forget to tell all your friends and family to check out our site!

Putting it simply, serviceElevator.com is all about the fans and their love for Disney’s Hollywood Tower of Terror attraction, Twilight Zone, and other Disney-related interests. We see serviceElevator.com as a promotional tool with the intent of celebrating and widening the fan community for people who love The Walt Disney Company and The Twilight Zone.

serviceElevator.com was also created out of respect and admiration for the late Rod Serling , who’s ideas were always one step ahead of the times. A big portion of this website is dedicated to the memory of Rod Serling.

Picture if you will, 2 middle-aged individuals, who worked long, continuous hours in their chosen professions. On one cloudy day, they decided to disconnect from the reality of their work place environments. They decided to enter into a new dimension. A dimension not only of sight and mind, but a dimension of pure escapism and entertainment. They saw the sign post up ahead, tripped over it, and crossed into the dimension known as……. serviceElevator.com!

As a kid, I remember having dreams of designing an amusement park or becoming a movie director (among other things). Since none of these dreams became a reality, I thought it might be fun to nurture the right side of my brain (the side where art and creativity reside) and build a website. It all kind of started like this. I grew up in Orange County California, and one summer I found myself working for Disneyland. It was a completely unplanned experience. I really wasn’t looking for work as I already had a steady summer job as a camp counselor. I guess you can say I was “referred” by a friend to work for the mouse house. This “referral” led to the interview process which eventually led to a nighttime job at the park. I had to work in the evenings because I was a parade float driver for the original Main Street Electric Parade. Short lived as it was, I have some great memories from that experience and still keep in touch with friends who continue to work with the Electric Parade. But if I can fast forward a bit, the ideas for this website really began back in a place called Orlando, Florida. I desperately wanted to travel to Orlando to experience a ride not yet built in the California parks. To answer The Hollywood Tower of Terror’s beckon call, I knew I needed to make that trip to the sunshine state. So after some meticulous trip planning that even Clark W. Griswold would have been proud of, I finally made my way to the Disney-MGM theme park. Hot is an understatement to describe that July day. Sweltering was more like it. I still remember the beads of sweat dripping from my forehead as I waited anxiously in line at the Disney-MGM studios to board the Famed Hollywood Tower of Terror attraction. And what I experienced was nothing short of amazing. Disney had done it again, but this time, they integrated their magic with one of my favorite classic TV shows; The Twilight Zone. Needless to say, I was hooked after my first ride. Disney’s incredible attention to detail and architecture (related to the attraction) still awes me to this day.

Without a shadow of a doubt, Disney’s Hollywood Tower of Terror attraction remains my favorite theme park attraction. I believe the theming on this ride is brilliant. Combining the imagination of Disney with the Twilight Zone theme resulted in a recipe for true thrills and excitement and a high repeatability factor. My hat’s off to the myriad of Disney imagineers who made this attraction what it is today---an engineering marvel filled with enough sci-fi thrills to satisfy any Disney Geek (self included).

But that’s not the whole story of how this website came to fruition. Once I completed graduate school, framed the diploma, and entered the daily grind of the 5 day work week, I soon realized I needed an outlet. I needed a place where I could go and escape the trappings of the day in-day out routine. Moreover, somewhere in the midst of all this hustle and bustle, I realized my inner child had abandoned me. Fortunately, when I discovered Disneyland again in a whole new way, I also rediscovered my inner child. I guess you can say it is my reaquaintance with my inner child that helped lead to the construction of this website. So in closing, I would like to leave you with some incredible words of wisdom from the pen of Mark Twain. “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW, YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO, THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO. SO THROW OFF THE BOWLINES. SAIL AWAY FROM THE SAFE HARBOR. CATCH THE TRADE WINDS IN YOUR SAILS. EXPLORE, DREAM, DISCOVER”. Take it to heart! I sincerely hope your stay at serviceElevator.com will be enjoyable one.

Thankyous and Shout Outs:

Hugs, high fives, hand shakes, and shout outs to the following people for whom this website would have not been made possible: Dr. Dave for all his love and support;

All of you who belong to Zero’s Kennel; the Cove Bar Gang; all the outstanding Cove Bar and Club 33 castmembers who are worthy of a standing ovation; All of the event staff from Disney Event Services; The N.F.F.C.; Lisa (the Sacred Heart) Sarmento for her incredibly gifted artistic talent; Gail Vyncke who assisted with photography (and was born with a camera around her neck); Patrice Ruble who also assisted with photography; Jim Van Wicklin at VW Web Design who took on this job with the utmost bravery and enthusiasm; and John Thomas of Blue Tractor. SPECIAL THANKS to The Walt Disney Company and the late Rod Serling for providing us with some of the best entertainment ever imagined! May your legacies live on forever!

Copyright Information:

All Walt Disney Company stills, graphics, sounds, and logos are trademarks of The Walt Disney Company (© Disney). Likewise, all stills, graphics, sounds, and logos of The Twilight Zone are trademarks of the Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. The reproduction rights regarding the use of these companies stills, graphics, sounds, and logos, have not been given to serviceElevator.com. Furthermore, all custom-made graphics, content, and artwork, from the serviceElevator.com website may NOT be reproduced in any form without direct permission from the webmaster (aka: hotel operator). You may not copy, distribute, or display any serviceElevator.com text, graphics, logos, or designs without direct permission from the webmaster. Legal consequences will result from any and all unauthorized reproduction. serviceElevator.com custom-made graphics, content, and artwork are solely and exclusively the property of serviceElevator.com’s owners.

serviceElevator.com Terms of Use Policy:

At our discretion, serviceElevator.com and it’s owners reserve the right to terminate website membership and/or block activity use of this website from a specific user at any given time. When posting messages in any of our forums or engaging in chat, we ask all users to refrain from using any kind of profanity or obscenities. While we here at serviceElevator.com despise political correctness, we do not advocate the use of derogatory language as it relates to an individual’s race, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or religion. Engaging in chat or posts that reflect this type of language is cause for immediate termination from using this site. It is our goal to promote a somewhat family friendly environment on this web site, and as such, we expect users to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. We encourage users of this website to immediately report any inappropriate activity to the webmaster by emailing hoteloperator@serviceelevator.com. In addition to this, serviceElevator.com makes no guarantee it’s website will be available at any given time. We also do not guarantee the accuracy of reported information posted on this website. Your use of this website indicates you are in full agreement with serviceelevator.com’s terms of use and privacy policies. In a similar manner, your ongoing use of this website indicates you are in agreement with any future changes to the website’s terms of use and privacy policies once they are posted.

ServiceElevator.com prohibited uses include, but are not limited to:

A) Posting, storing, or transmitting material that is obscene, unlawful, threatening, or which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, or otherwise violate any local, state, federal, or international law.
B) Posting, storing, or transmitting material deemed to be pornographic, indecent, harassing, hateful, vulgar, or otherwise inappropriate, regardless of whether this material is unlawful.