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Verdant Air Conditioner Hotel Hack. As the sun beats down on my room in the late afternoon, i wanted to crank the a/c up and set the temperature lower than the hotel normally allows it to go. As we wrote a while back, modern hotel thermostats are, in a word, a pain.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.

Anyway, when we got to our room, it was hot. That because many hotels have installed air conditioning units set to a certain “energy efficient” temperature that. You can further encourage the air to move through your room by placing a fan in each window.

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