Posted on 08/19/2013 8:59:48 PM PDT by TexGrill
A strict enforcement of air-conditioning regulations is making hotels an uncomfortable place to sleep for foreign tourists.
Many hotels are flooded with complaints from guests due to the regulations requiring commercial buildings to maintain temperatures at 26 degrees Celsius or higher.
A traveler from Canada, Julie Ahn, stayed at a business hotel in Jung-gu, central Seoul, during her seven-day visit to Seoul to see her mother.
She said she liked almost everything about the hotel except the hot temperature and humidity of her room.
“It was too hot to go to sleep. Since there wasn’t a control switch for the air-conditioner, I called the front desk to turn on the air conditioning or do whatever they could. But they kept saying that they could not cool the room off any further because of regulations set by the government,” Ahn said.
What she has experienced in the hotel is, in fact, a common issue of the hotel industry here recently.
(Excerpt) Read more at koreatimes.co.kr ...
I think I’d rather visit in the fall/winter anyways
Hey, somebody’s gotta save the world from agw. Or are we talkin’ norf Korea. Ooops. Forgot only kim dung un has AC.
26C = 78.8F
My room better be 68 when I’m sleeping or all hell will break loose.
Coming to a thermostat (via ‘smart meter’) near you...
South Korea has a government-run electric system, so of course there is a shortage pretty regularly.
There was no a/c in TDC in 83. But a short time was $10 and an overnight was $20, so cared. (Much less right before payday)
Coming soon to a country near you.
Spent a few days in South Korea last July - business meetings at their Coast Guard facility in Inchon - offices were HOT and MUGGY (and wearing tie/jacket).
They told us "Government regulations".
It was a miserable two days.
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