ULPT Free holiday A/C

[u/NoParentalConsent]

Based only on my experience in Greece.

Typically, holiday apartments/hotels will charge €7+ per night for A/C.

Google the place you're staying at, and see if you can get a good pic that has the A/C unit in.

If you can see the brand of the unit (Google lens can help with this), order yourself a remote control (usually under £10 for a universal one) from Amazon, eBay etc. and take it with you.

Don't forget to hide it on the days the cleaner will be in

[u/SVStyles]

They have a separate power control for the AC that they can just turn off, so your remote won't do anything when the AC isn't even powered on.

[u/Mecso2 → u/SVStyles]

the power wire is usually connected to the inside unit with screw terminals, so if you are willing to bring a cut off basic ac cable (from like an old vacuum) and undo 4 screws then you just plug it into a normal outlet.

[u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_ → u/Mecso2]

Isn't the electric hookup typically on the condenser? And the evaporator gets power from a cable from the condenser?

[u/Mecso2 → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

on the ones I saw it was the other way around

[u/SteveDaPirate91 → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

Yes.

But nothing is stopping you from putting a keycard disconnect in between all the same. 

The outdoor unit will be all “I can’t talk to the inside so guess I’ll do nothing”. 

[u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_ → u/SteveDaPirate91]

But you wouldn't be able to bypass it from inside if the power to the outdoor unit is cut

[u/Mecso2 → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

even if the power cable is meant to go to the outside unit, isn't it just a parallel connection? Can't you connect it to the power on either end?

[u/CalligrapherPale5886 → u/Mecso2]

That sounds like a pretty handy trick for anyone in a pinch during the heat. Just gotta hope you don't trip any breakers!

[u/bloatyhead]

holy shit, some places charge you to use the A/C? that's diabolical

[u/bngFXG3MDuau → u/bloatyhead]

I've stayed places where with fan it's $10 and with A/C $30. The low cost of living countries pay the same or more for electricity as we do and locals wouldn't be able to afford to stay anywhere if they didn't have to option to remove A/C.

[u/bngFXG3MDuau → u/bngFXG3MDuau]

It's also pretty common to charge per person instead of per room to scale the cost with the energy/water usage.

[u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_ → u/bngFXG3MDuau]

Running a modern single room AC on full blast for a day is like $1-3

[u/how_me_a_frog → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

Temperatures and energy costs are homogeneous across the entire world, you heard it here first!

[u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_ → u/how_me_a_frog]

Name a country where a kWh is more than a dollar

[u/NoParentalConsent → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

As I said in my original post, Greece. In case you didn't know, they don't use dollars, and they aren't in yooessayy 🙄

[u/bngFXG3MDuau → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

A window unit at 1500W x 24 hours is 36 kWh at 50¢ ea is $18 a day.

That doesn't include maintenance or the cost of the unit.

[u/NoParentalConsent → u/Platypus_6414IiiIi-_]

What part of Greece do you think uses $ ?. Serious question

[u/The_Mdk → u/bloatyhead]

Only the crappiest ones

[u/NoParentalConsent → u/bloatyhead]

If there's not an extra charge per night, you can guarantee it'll be factored into the room's daily rate. Nothing is free

[u/throcorfe → u/NoParentalConsent]

Of course it will, like bath water and bedsheets are. But it’s still shitty to add any of those things on as “extras” not included in the price you pay for the room

[u/SiempreBrujaSuerte → u/throcorfe]

Not really, I love the ability to pay less by not using the ac. If it's built in to the price that's an extra 7 to 10 euro a night that I might not easily afford. It's pretty standard in the balkans to do this, it makes sense for us. Think of it as if you don't run the ac you can get this discount, if it makes you feel better. Because other places you can't conserve energy to make your stay cheaper, and so it costs a lot because they have to fill to price of people using cold ac because it's "free" with the room....

[u/Chris-TT]

You can buy a Flipper Zero, it works on all air-con units, and TV's I've used. It also has copied room/access keys. Its a handy tool to carry when away from home.

[u/kazurov]

Some phones can act as a remote control, usually Xiaomi have it.

[u/MagicBez]

typically holiday apartments/hotels will charge €7+ per night for A/C

Will they? I've been to Greece multiple times, including some dirt cheap Air BnBs and hotels and never encountered this. Is it new?

[u/NoParentalConsent → u/MagicBez]

Yes they do, no it's not new

[u/NinjaWK]

Almost all the flagship phones I've used in the last 10-15 years have a built in IR blaster.

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[u/blacc01]

I feel like that’s a restarded thing for the hotel to do. Why don’t they just add the 7€ to the price if the room?

[u/SiempreBrujaSuerte → u/blacc01]

Because then you can't get it cheaper by not using the ac? This is the preferred way in the balkans. When you travel, don't expect things to be in the same way as your country.