Yeah, I would think the HVAC system of a large commercial building would have some “checks and balances” and wouldn’t get screwed over from one small modification on a hot day. This was a decent-sized modern hotel, not some century-old shabby New Orleans bungalow.
I also spend way too much times in hotels. I deserve a good nights sleep and an overall pleasant experience. That’s what the hospitality industry is supposed to be all about, ya know?
Depends on what you’re paying. All I want is a bed and I give no shit about creature comforts or quiet, so a cheap Motel 6 is fine with me if I’m going solo. Bathroom can even be down the hall for all I care. If I want comfort, then I’ll gladly pay more for it, but typically I don’t need comfort, just a roof over my head and a bed. And the prices of places I stay reflects that. I try to keep my stays at under $100 a night, but it’s become more and more difficult.
That was my first time staying at that hotel. Yeah, I do pick certain hotels over others. Temp control is one of the top reasons. But, if I’m already checked in and discover that something sucks, what am I supposed to do? Pack my bags and leave? Much more convenient to fool with the thermostat, than to check out prematurely and switch hotels.
Are you for real? The more you post the less I believe you. You grin and bear it and don’t fuck with anything you’re not supposed to fuck with. Don’t stay there next time.
Exactly.
Bro, tax evasion is a bit more complex than that.
Going to one casino just a few times a year and playing low variance low denomination machines to avoid handpays out of fear of being trespassed, doesn’t equal tax evasion.
Call the front desk. Did this not even occur to you?
What? This was your very first time in Las Vegas and it never occurred to you to ask management before futzing around with someone else’s closed system?
I’m with @LSLGuy on this. While there might be some lower bound of what’s reasonable, and reasonable people may disagree on what that is, 68 ain’t it. Especially since all 68 means is that the thermostat is seeing 68, not me in my bed or at my desk.
I don’t know how you travel, but I usually don’t know much about a hotel until I arrive. I suppose I’d eventually figure out that I want to avoid (say) Marriotts, but corporate travel policies would make that impossible anyway.
If you don’t like it, call the front desk, or write a letter after your stay. You didn’t buy the room, you rented it.
Unless the thermostat was out of calibration. I stayed in a hotel this winter that was blazingly hot when I walked in the room. The heater was set for 68º and I kept turning it down until it stopped blowing hot air. I had to turn it as low as it would go, which I think was 57º. Even that was still a little warmer than I would’ve liked, probably close to 72º where I’d prefer it to be more like 70º.
When did I say I was in Vegas? That hotel was no where near Vegas. I’ve been to Vegas several times, and my first time was more than 10 years ago. What is up with the strawmans here?
Then you call the front desk.
So you’re saying you report the $1199 and under wins on your taxes? That $1200 is the point where the casino must issue the W2, not when you are supposed to report it.
Maybe you also do it to avoid the trespass charge - but I really doubt that’s the only reason. Especially since you didn’t mention why you were banned.
You talk about going to Las Vegas all the time, so it was an easy assumption, not a strawman. Where did this actually happen?
It doesn’t really work like that though, does it? If I’m in a room, I’m probably taking one shower. Lowering the water temp or decreasing the volume for my one shower saves them maybe pennies. They’re not going to start making rooms cost $124.98 instead of $125, they’ll just save the collected pennies across all the rooms and all the properties and have an extra pile of money at the end much like the old story of taking one olive off each airline salad and saving millions. So I get a weaker shower, the company makes more money and the kicker is that it’s not even really feasible to make it worth it to me. But it is feasible to give everyone a worse shower experience and make money off doing so.
Sure, I’m not trying to justify the OP, but there’s some misunderstandings about how air conditioners work in this thread and that’s one item I wanted to point out.
On some level I’d agree with you, especially as to the point that all of those policies would be ripe for greenwashing and the real motivation would be to cut costs and not pass on the savings to me.
But they’d have to limit the thermostat to 72 and showers to 7 minutes or so for me to actually feel that way. As it stands, 68 seems like an entirely reasonable number and the justification makes sense. Sometimes we all have to be a little warmer than we’d like, and that’s just life.
Yes, wins and losses are supposed to be recorded, even below that $1200 threshold.
Again I only dodge the handpays at that particular casino. I only go to that casino hoping to win a little beer money and kill time. Unfortunately I’ve been breaking even there lol. Elsewhere, W2s are welcome! It’s in my best interest to get them. Sure, I don’t like having them removing state and federal taxes from my jackpot…but I’m happy to be winning those jackpots. The amounts won from those jackpots can take me far, even after taxes.
I was kicked out because a security guard thought I was sleeping. I was not sleeping, I was engrossed in my cell phone. I was hunched over and looking down. That casino are nazis about customers falling asleep. And at that particular casino whenever you get in trouble, they run your license and put it on their “file”.
I thought it would be fun to try that trick learned from DEFCON.