Annhig, are there other countries with laws like that? Most places we have been have no ac. Spain in Oct but think we will be ok there on the sea.>>

Don't know, flpab, but I remember the landlord of an apartment in Florence that we rented in October once said that we were too late for the A/C but too early for the heating [not that we needed it].

by October it should be cool at night, which is the main problem I find. [its not being, obviously]

The Amedia in Schwerin has A/C, but is not very centrally located. The 10-15 min walk to the old town/castle should be manageable, though. And there's still the bus.

Thanks Ingo, but turns out I was looking at the wrong Schwerin! Weather should be 78F day I arrive, a pleasant 76F the next.

We were in Florence in October of '12 and it was HOT. Luckily there was AC, albeit a tad anemic, but just cool enough to be bearable at night, provided one showered and then air-dryed….it did not cool down a lot at night, but was definitely more bearable than the days…

My mantra is that if you are American, you need AC. And as stated above, if you are wondering if you need AC, you have answered your own question---you need it.

It was 38C when we stayed with family in Chemnitz about 5 years ago, we had an attic room with a tiny window and no airflow. Exhausting, uncomfortable, no sleep.
Last year we had 12C in Bavaria in July and it rained every day. This is equivalent to our winter

Australians are supposedly used to the heat, but we turn on A/C the minute we are uncomfortable (sorry swandav!) and we lived in a dugout while in the outback. So I'd be making sure it has A/C.

There's been a heat wave for the past week or so in Mittelfranken. I think it finally broke today. It was a longer hot spell than I remember over the past five years.

Saw this, thought of you guys
http://www.bloombergview.com/article...s-eco-friendly

I teresting article, it's true that you don't see complaints abouteople trying to stay warm the way you do about people trying to stay cool. But you can be just as dead from too much heat as from too much cold, and it's certainly more practical - and effective - to put more clothes on than to take them off. Also, you don't get those freezing AC temps in the US so much anymore, aside from grocery stores.

Also, global warming. It is one thing to be fanatically anti-AC when you only need it a couple of weeks a year. It is another when you need it for two months.

The first day I was in Berlin it was 91 F, and there's no AC in the U-Bahn or on the buses.... Lots of hot and damp looking people around.