The older Amana PTAC units don’t need as much work to override the thermostat, as I discovered during a recent trip to a Candlewood Suites that had such a unit. These are “below the window” units you see in some motel and hotel rooms, where the settings are in the unit. None of my research told me what hotels use an Alerton, but if you ever come across one… 😉 Some of these videos specify what hotel brands use a particular brand of thermostat, some don’t. If the one(s) you want to see isn’t/aren’t working, please cut and paste the URL into your browser. NOTE #4: Some of the hotlinks aren’t working. After all, some people rent houses, right? NOTE #3: It’s possible that some of these thermostat units are intended for houses, not hotels. We make no guarantees they still work, but hey, it’s worth a try, right? NOTE #2: Some of these suggestions are older than others and hotels may have updated some controls. Your Mileage May Vary as to whether it’s a good idea or not to try to bypass the controls set by the hotel – but if you think it’s OK, here are some ways to do it. Besides potentially using up more energy than the hotel intended, you run the risk of breaking their thermostat, like these people did – and frankly, the hotel may or may not hold you responsible for the repair bill. NOTE #1: Of course, the hotels don’t want you to mess with their thermostats. Here are some hacks we’ve found (only found we haven’t “invented” any) for some of the most popular brands at some of the more popular hotels:
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Oh great, that way we can be uncomfortable in our room while we’re wide awake, too!įortunately, electronic-savvy travelers have made it their business to figure out how to override these nuisance thermostats so we can be in our hotel rooms more comfortably. That one was easy to override because just about ANY card worked in the slot -).Īs modern technology got more advanced, they started building motion sensors into hotel thermostats, which meant that not only did you have to be in the room for the A/C to work, you had to be moving around…so if you were sleeping and woke up in the middle of the night, the room could be uncomfortable because unless they were sleepwalking, no one had moved around in several hours.Īnd then there are the thermostats with upper or lower limits that you can’t bypass so the room won’t get warmer or colder than the hotel wants. Well over a decade ago, we noticed the kind of thermostat where you were supposed to put your room key into a slot to keep the air conditioning (and sometimes the electricity!) running, which meant when you were out of the room, your A/C wouldn’t run and when you got back, the room would be uncomfortable. As we wrote a while back, modern hotel thermostats are, in a word, a pain.
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