During evacuations of the two larger towers, the twenty-two story hotel was used as an evacuation runway for about 1,000 people who were evacuating from the area.[37] A majority of the registered 940 guests at the hotel began to evacuate after alarms were raised due to a piece of one of the plane's landing gear landing on the top floor of the pool.[37] Some did not immediately do so, with at least one guest recounting that he woke up to the first plane hitting the North Tower, and went back to bed only to be awoken by the impact of the plane hitting the South Tower.