Resort room air conditioner

[Trinka]

I have read many times about the room air conditioners...that people bypass the motion sensor or put a helium balloon on them so they don't turn off at night. This doesn't make sense to me. Why would an air conditioner be programmed with a motion sensor to turn off with lack of motion when the time you really want it on is at night, while sleeping, not moving around? We are staying at Wilderness Lodge. Can anyone tell me how their a/cs work? I think people have said that not all resort room a/cs are the same. Thanks in advance for the clarification. I have been too cold at night when we stay there, so maybe the motion sensor idea is not the case at WL?

 

[J3nn78]

I think it was a good idea not well thought out. I think their intention was to keep ACs off, while people are in the parks and out of the room all day. But seems like they neglected to think of night time when people are asleep and not moving.

 

[Wild4Walt]

I agree, I think it was probably a 'Going Green' initiative gone wrong. So many would come in and crank the air down so low. But I can't stand coming in from a few hours at the pool, all hot and sweaty into a hot room....

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

I have read many times about the room air conditioners...that people bypass the motion sensor or put a helium balloon on them so they don't turn off at night. This doesn't make sense to me. Why would an air conditioner be programmed with a motion sensor to turn off with lack of motion when the time you really want it on is at night, while sleeping, not moving around? We are staying at Wilderness Lodge. Can anyone tell me how their a/cs work? I think people have said that not all resort room a/cs are the same. Thanks in advance for the clarification. I have been too cold at night when we stay there, so maybe the motion sensor idea is not the case at WL?

The air conditioning doesn't completely turn off at night or when no one is in the room, it just reverts to a higher temp. So you aren't going to walk into an 80 degree room, but it also won't be 63 degrees. It just goes to a higher temp. setting, but not really hot.

 

[fla4fun]

The air conditioning doesn't completely turn off at night or when no one is in the room, it just reverts to a higher temp. So you aren't going to walk into an 80 degree room, but it also won't be 63 degrees. It just goes to a higher temp. setting, but not really hot.

Well, see, hot is relative. I think an 80 degree room is an oven. I sleep at 65 degrees (or less) and never warmer than 72 during the day. I'm a heat wimp.

No, not all of the thermostats are the same, even the motion detector ones. Instructions for overriding one won't necessarily work on another.

I always travel with a fan, and if I get too warm, I just have to get up for a while and move around until the room cools down again. I remember my sister and I taking turns sitting up in bed and waving at CR trying to get them to work in the middle of the night. Personally, I think they should have put programmable ones in the room, then asked each guest their preferred daytime and nighttime temps, and then set them appropriately. If maintenance has to come and do the override on so many of them anyway, it would have been a way to help control energy usage without making guests uncomfortable.

 

[PolynesianAlex]

Just wondering at certain times of the year are the rooms set to be cooler because we are going in 9 days ... August Florida's Hottest Month

We need the room to be as cold as possible

 

[huntconn]

Sorry, but for what Disney is charging per night to stay at one of their resorts, there is just no valid excuse for the motion sensors in the rooms. They can use the "going green" excuse if they want to, but we all know it is to reduce cost. Also, what's with the motion sensors on the fan in the bathrooms?! I've actually had to wave my arms while sitting on the toilet to make the fan go back on! Not cool. Anyway, the AC bypass is very simple to do. Just hold the Power (On/off?) button and press the blue triangle button. Then just set the AC to the temp you want. You will have to do this approximately every 48 hours or so.

 

[KarBear]

What resorts have the "motion sensor"? All of them.
When we were there two years ago, the a/c was cranked by mousekeeping and it was freezing when we went back to our room.
So mousekeeping alone could be part cause to blame.