guest room temperature controls
 

As a hotel or b&b guest, what temperature do you like your room a/c set at? I have noticed a lot of places are putting in energy efficient individual controls that have a maximum cool that you can set it on. Thoughts?

64 degrees. Seriously, I find anything higher too warm for comfortable sleep.

64 degrees, are you serious? I was gong to say 76.

74 degrees

I agree with dmlove, if I had a choice. In the winter we never turn the heat up past 64, and in the summer we turn the ac to around 72, but keep fans going as well.

Another vote for 64 degrees. It never seems to get that low--but I always try. Winter temp at home is 64 night and 68 daytime. Summer 74 degrees with fans.

These are my home settings for sleeping.

Summer cool to 78, or 80 if there is a ceiling fan. Daytime temps go 2 degrees higher.

Winter heat to 66, or 64 if warm covers. Next winter I'll try 60 even since heating oil has climbed from $2.89/gal to >$4.50

I need 70 or below to sleep - and have found that many hotel rooms just simply won;t get cool enough to feel comfortable for me. I wish they would leave the systems alone.

Similarly in the winter, most rooms are way too warm for me - and they're wasting money on heat while I'm opening windows to get fresh, cool air.

(A little warmer 73/4 is OK when I'm awake - since you don;t need to wear much - but there's nothing like lying in bed with only the sheet - and still sweating.)

(I don;t know if this is hereditary or learned - but my father would always turn the house thermostat down to 60 or below at night in the winter. And he's right - that's why there are blankets.)

I would freeze at 64 degrees. I prefer it to be about 72 in winter and 78 in summer.

Keeping in mind that we live in mild-climate San Francisco, we keep the windows open in the bedroom all year round; prefer more blankets and fresh air. In the summer, we keep a fan on (no A/C)

Setting a/c to 64 is nuts! I'm sorry, but it is! Electricity doesn't grow on trees, ya know...

68-70 in a hotel room. At home, windows open, it's almost always comfortable in coastal OC, Ca.

I always set it to around 75 degrees, and sometimes even then in the middle of the night I've got the blankets pulled up to my neck.

The price of electricity, or even the production of electricity regardless of cost, is a concern, but my health (and the ability to sleep is one very important component) is too. I don't choose to be unable to sleep in a warm room, but I can't.

NewbE--Trust me, that is the reason I don't set our ac to 64. I would love to! Thus the ceiling fan over our bed as well as a big pedestal fan pointed right at it. DH has adapted over the years, but when we were first married he thought he was going to freeze to death, lol!

I'm with you chepar!

dm, if you're sleeping under any sort of blanket at all--you are, aren't you?-- then your claims of needing a temp of 64 for your health are, with all due respect, false. Listen, my SIL likes to snuggle under a down comforter even in the summer, and lowers her thermostat accordingly, but she could, of course, sleep under a light cover and turn it up to a reasonable 74 or so. She doesn't want to, and feels she couldn't sleep at all any other way.
But preference and ingrained sleep habits, tough as those are to break--I know, I'm trying to avoid sleeping on my favorite side due to an injury, and it's tough--do not equal a health necessity. What if electricity were rationed--you wouldn't die, you'd adapt.

Winter temp daytime set at 68.
Nighttime winter set at 55.

Summer close all windows and suck cool air via fan from crawl space.
Night time open all windows as it ALWAYS cools down here at night.

Live in Northwest Montana

I don't really need to get into an argument about my sleeping habits, but since I use NO air conditioning at home, I don't feel one bit bad about using it in hotels :)

I do appreciate the feedback. As terrible energy glutens in a hot climate a/c systems in our area are being replaced with programable high efficiency ones. The lowest temp for a/c and highest temp for heat can be predetermined by the innkeeper. We never put our personal a/c below 83 or heat above 68, but know it can be a very personal issue!