A strange hotel

Question

Entering the lobby, I requested a room. The clerk handed me my key and I took the elevator to my floor. To my surprise there was a sign on the door of my room telling me I should try a different room instead.

I headed to my new room on the floor above. But I simply couldn't find the door. I looked to the room next to where it should be, but a burly looking security guard said I wasn't allowed in there.

So I took the elevator a floor higher where the restaurant was located. No sooner had I arrived when one of the waitstaff clumsily spilled a drink over me!

I stormed back to the lobby and made my concerns known. The response from the front desk clerk was that there was only really one room in this hotel which was OK.

Which room number should I try?

Did the sign say to try any different room or did it say to try a specific room? — CStafford-14, Apr 24 '19 at 20:33
Does this hotel have anything to do with a rot13(zrgebvqinavn) — Bewilderer, Apr 24 '19 at 20:39
I hope you aren't in Hotel California :). Anyway, thanks for the puzzle, and welcome to Puzzling.SE! I removed the "riddle" tag and replaced it with "story" since this isn't quite a "riddle". — Brandon_J, Apr 24 '19 at 21:05

score 120 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 25 '19 at 03:02

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All the rooms in this hotel correspond to

HTTP status codes and their corresponding message phrases.

You began on third floor, likely in front of room 307 where you were 307 REDIRECTED to the fourth floor. There you got to room 404 which was 404 NOT FOUND. Next to it was room 403, which was 403 FORBIDDEN. At the restaurant, the server spilled a drink on you because of a 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR (thanks, El-Guest)!

Your real room number is 200, because that is 200 OK.

edited Apr 25 '19 at 03:02

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Note that the restaurant was in room 500, and the spill was because there was an rot13(vagreany freire reebe)! – El-Guest Apr 24 '19 at 22:16
Very good! I'm glad I didn't go to room 418. – Matt Apr 25 '19 at 05:05
And now you're in Room 212 ;) – Omega Krypton Apr 25 '19 at 05:40
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I would have left and dos'd the hotel with an army of bots. – Sentinel Apr 25 '19 at 06:06
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I (lterally) couldn't find 212. – René Nyffenegger Apr 25 '19 at 18:23
That's very clever, I wouldn't have considered status codes at all. – Bodrov Apr 25 '19 at 18:28
There's a 212 FTP Return Code 212 - Directory Status - But not an HTTP Status Code – That1Guy Apr 25 '19 at 20:46
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Room 201 is currently under construction and room 202 seems to be laundry. 204 have a lack of furniture. – val - disappointed in SE Apr 26 '19 at 10:20
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I think I know this hotel. I stumbled into the Rule 34 suite by mistake. It took seven security guards to pull me out. – Deepak Apr 27 '19 at 03:32

A strange hotel

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