I'm in a hotel tonight, and I brought some leftovers from a restaurant that I'd like to have as an early lunch tomorrow before checking out. The room has a mini-fridge, so I put the food in it.
I noticed that the fridge was warm inside. Sometimes hotels turn them off, so it wasn't a huge surprise. So I looked inside it for the dial/switch to turn it on.
There was a button on the side to turn it on, and to make a long story short, the mini-fridge is an "eco fridge" where it automatically turns off after two hours when you turn it on. If you want to keep it cool, you have to press the button again after two hours. You can keep the fridge going indefinitely, but only if you press the button every two hours.
What is your opinion of this concept? I'll post my opinion in the first post so as not to bias anyone. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I'm in a hotel tonight, and I brought some leftovers from a restaurant that I'd like to have as an early lunch tomorrow before checking out. The room has a mini-fridge, so I put the food in it.
I noticed that the fridge was warm inside. Sometimes hotels turn them off, so it wasn't a huge surprise. So I looked inside it for the dial/switch to turn it on.
There was a button on the side to turn it on, and to make a long story short, the mini-fridge is an "eco fridge" where it automatically turns off after two hours when you turn it on. If you want to keep it cool, you have to press the button again after two hours. You can keep the fridge going indefinitely, but only if you press the button every two hours.
What is your opinion of this concept? I'll post my opinion in the first post so as not to bias anyone.
It only had an on/off switch, no like temperature setting?
It sounds like it was one of these and yes they're awful and use more energy than a regular ass fridge:
The pussification of America continues.
I get the green idea initiative. But just a dumb idea. And whomever had the experience with the mini fridge that monitors the moveable liquor sensor, yup, that happened to us too!! Just used the Cabletech94 charm and got our charges removed too.
Better than the eco a/c idea. A/c only worked for about 30 minutes when activated by a motion detector. So if you weren't walking in front of it (it was located by the entry door to the room) it shut off. Which means the room was hot when we got there. And hot when we came back from the pool and hot while we were sleeping. [Reply]
Seems like an entrepreneur would put a card reader on the side of that fridge so that the user could pay to keep it working for the amount of time the user needed it to run.
It seems like a good idea poorly implemented. Eight hours would seem like an appropriate amount of on time. Or make the customer have to turn it on after every time the door is opened and then closed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
They're actually doing that with the air conditioning, as well. When we stayed in St. Louis to see the Sammy Hagar show, the A/C would go back to its preset temp after a couple of hours. So one of us would have to walk over and crank it back down from the preset after we'd wake up sweating and cool the room back down. Pretty chintzy, really.
I had a place have an ac that would not go below 72.
Screwed the plastic cover off and googled how to reset it.
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I'm in a hotel tonight, and I brought some leftovers from a restaurant that I'd like to have as an early lunch tomorrow before checking out. The room has a mini-fridge, so I put the food in it.
I noticed that the fridge was warm inside. Sometimes hotels turn them off, so it wasn't a huge surprise. So I looked inside it for the dial/switch to turn it on.
There was a button on the side to turn it on, and to make a long story short, the mini-fridge is an "eco fridge" where it automatically turns off after two hours when you turn it on. If you want to keep it cool, you have to press the button again after two hours. You can keep the fridge going indefinitely, but only if you press the button every two hours.
What is your opinion of this concept? I'll post my opinion in the first post so as not to bias anyone.