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How Holiday Inn Express Secured 120+ guest room Door Entrances

Learn how King Locksmith and Doors Experts helped a leading hospitality property modernize aging door hardware, standardize staff access control, improve life safety compliance, and secure critical hotel entry points across one high-traffic Maryland facility.

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Holiday Inn Hotel

Executive Snapshots

Client

Holiday Inn Express

Industry

Hospitality / Hotel

Region

Maryland

Facilities

120 Entrances

Challenge

Holiday Inn Express Hotel needed an organized way to secure guest areas, staff-only spaces, and emergency exits without disrupting daily hotel operations. Aging door closers, recurring guest room lock failures, inconsistent staff access permissions, and poorly latching corridor fire doors were creating maintenance strain and guest frustration. The property also needed faster credential control for staff turnover while improving life safety compliance across high-traffic openings.

Solutions Delivered

Access control upgrades
Fire Door Corrections
Door Hardware Servicing
Credential Management Optimization

Client Background

Holiday Inn Express suits and hotel operates a fast-paced hospitality environment serving hundreds of guests, staff members, vendors, and maintenance personnel weekly across its Maryland location.

The property included:

  • Main guest entrance systems
  • Interior corridor fire doors
  • Staff-only back-of-house entries
  • Mechanical and supply rooms
  • Emergency egress doors
  • Guest room hardware on multiple floors
Holiday Inn Hotel

The Security Challenge

The hotel leadership engaged King Locksmith And Doors after repeated operational issues involving:

Operational Impact:

These issues created guest frustration, increased front-desk escalations, slowed housekeeping and engineering workflows, and introduced compliance risks around fire-rated corridor and emergency exit doors.

Facility Assessment

Before implementation, our Maryland Specialists completed a full hotel door and access assessment, including:

Key Findings:

The most critical issue was not isolated hardware failure, but a combination of door alignment problems, aging closers, and fragmented staff access permissions, which together increased both service calls and operational risk.

The Solution

We designed a hospitality-focused layered solution centered on access accountability and high-cycle door reliability.

The Results

68%

Reduction in guest room and corridor door incidents

55%

faster staff credential changes

92%

fewer door closer-related maintenance tickets

lower ongoing maintenance spend on repeat door failures

King Locksmith helped us solve more than door problems. They improved guest confidence, simplified staff access control, and brought our building openings back to dependable daily performance without disrupting hotel operations.

John Meayer

Facilities Manager, Holiday Inn Express Maryland

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