Just a question. Why are hotel in room air conditioners so poor.
They fool you into thinking your in control. There's a nice little panel on your way in that you select your temperature, but realistically you are just playing up and down with numbers that have no real value while you spend another night wishing the AC was actually blowing cold air rather than just humming like the local choir for no reason.
Surely it can't be that hard to cool a room. Am I the only one that feels this way?
Cheap hotel !
You get what you pay for
Stayed at a 5 star resort recently. Felt hot every night.
name and shame?
Felt hot every night.
Did you have adult shows playing on the TV every night?
Feeling hot is very subjective, they might set universal temp to fit with most person but some people might have different tolerance to certain temp.
Choose nicer hotels.
Caravan parks dont have good aircon
My caravan has a great air conditioning.
Don't rent hotel rooms by the hour.
Hour? What am I , a marathon man?
nah, two sprints 58 minutes apart
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I wouldn't want to stay overnight in a love hotel.
Are you referring to 5/6 star hotels with a honeymoon suite or?
No actual love hotels rented by the hour or overnight. They're just not in Australia.
That is not a universal issue…
It may be the case at some, but not all.
Especially not any half decent hotel.
Universal not,
Some places it may occur,
Decent hotels won't.
Just to add another comment. I'm really only talking about quality resorts and hotels. I can't be the only one that feels this way.
El cheapo tend to have split systems or window units when you pay by the hour.
Every 'quality' hotel I've stayed at has properly working and adjustable air conditioners. If anything, they tend to be too cold and sometimes I have to turn them off completely unless it's in SE Asia.
Maybe we have different ideas of 'quality.'
Never had an issue staying at 4 or 5 star hotels around AUS, Europe, America and SEA and I'm a very warm man that needs 18 degrees.
I just came back from staying in a room at a Farm Stay. They had what looks like a 3-4kW split system air-con for my room that was only about 35-40m2. That unit had the room temps down super fast. Plus I had full control as it was a stand-alone system not part of a larger ducted system.
ive stayed at some with excellent aircon and some with aircon which you think doesn't work
Won't even say what hotel…
It really does depend on the hotel. Some are duds but some are arctic. My other half stayed at a hotel in Singapore where the cleaning staff would turn on the air con when they cleaned the room. When he got home he turned off the air con and and needed a jumper until the place warmed up a bit.
Yeah I’ve had this at numerous chains Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, Mantra etc
Rate on newer hotels but old ones I feel like 50% have terrible AC
Unethical hack: Open the fridge door.
Unfortunately the fridge doesn't transfer the hot air to outside of the rooms, only to the back of the fridge
Given you’re suggesting you’re staying in a quality resort, have you tried to ask reception for help, or another room?
*you're
We don't say 'poor' anymore. They're 'less socio-economically advantaged' air conditioners.
You're not alone; it's an industry-wide thing.
I travel a lot, particularly in SE Asia and the Middle East region, and air cons in newer hotels are definitely worse on average than they used to be. I think it's a combination of underspeccing the capacity of the unit, and also limiting how cool the room gets regardless of the set point.
For example, I recently returned from Bangkok where I stayed at the Waldorf Astoria — one of the most expensive luxury hotels in the city. The room temperature would not dip below 21 degrees, regardless of what the AC's set point was (from recollection it would let the guest set it all the way down to 16 degrees).
I complained to the hotel about this and they said they had programmed the AC not to cool to below 21º due to "environmental reasons", but an engineer came to the room and removed the limitation for me during the stay.
In my experience this happens at a lot of hotels these days (particularly in the areas I travel in). I would say approx 1 in 4 luxury hotels. As someone who prefers the room to be cold when sleeping it can be quite frustrating!
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not alone.
Just out of interest, do you have any idea what the maintenance person did? Just wondering.
I had young people living in my house who would turn temp to 26 and leave after 20 minutes, yet leaving thermostat at 26. I bought a ** rigged aircon remote ** that showed 26 or 16, but the heater/aircon would not exceed limits that i had set!!! Hence never cooler than 21, and never warmer than 21. They never noticed of course as 21 is quite cool in summer and 21 is nice and warm in winter, but young people think the unit cools or heats quicker if you set temp v.low or v.high… i think that's what happens in many hotels/bnbs etc!!
Never had a problem
Try locating the remote and get back to us
Guessing it is the hotels you choose. I rarely have issues and i like the room cold much to my wifes annoyance.
Hotels can save lots of money by limiting cooling and heating capabilities.
They are lock to certain temperature as far as i know
Only been an issue once, complained and was given a new room that was cool, every other hotel has either been fine, or a bomb with a split system/window AC that might be noisy but worked.
It's setup for the lowest common denominator.