After painstakingly scouring through every fine detail of every property listing that was advertised as we had to ensure that it had air conditioning. We made sure that we were vigilant in our selection of accommodation as it was the difference between sleeping or not for out for our romantic weekend away.
This property was one of the properties that advertised having air-conditioning so based on this we booked the property in. The key was left for us to let ourselves into the property and we acquainted ourselves with the property and how things worked.
As advertised, the property clearly did have air-conditioning, and like 2 headless chooks running around looking for a controller for it or at least some instructions for it somewhere but instead after more than an hour of us looking, there were no such controller to be found.
As absurd as the whole thing seemed to us that someone would have this wonderful ducted air-conditioning system installed and listed as a properties features, however there no possible way for us to turn it on, one can’t help but ask oneself “were we to have sought out a property that is air-conditioned that includes being able to turn it on!?”.
Having wasted our time searching high and low for this elusive controller to turn on our air-conditioner that doesn’t exist, we had no choice but to call the owner and ask them how we can turn the air-conditioner on. Upon calling the owner to find out how we can turn on the air-conditioner that we had paid for the privilege of doing so, to my dismay the owner not only were we informed that there was no possible way for us to turn on the air-conditioner (due to the controller being upstairs where they lived, and they weren’t at home for the evening), I was also criticized for wanting to use the air conditioner due to the outside temperature that was forecast which could not have been of less relevance as I had no intention of sleeping outside. It almost seemed like the thought had never occurred to this lady that two different people could actually have 2 different personal preferences about something as unique as comfortable temperatures. Upon being informed that the temperature outside was 19 degrees overnight and as such this somehow should change my desire to use the air conditioner at any point – I explained that that’s great about it being 19 degrees outside, however the temperature that I normally have the air conditioner on at when I sleep is at 18 degrees. This of course could not simply be a case of personal preference of temperature, as she correctly assumed that I must work away at a mine site that explains this to which I told her that yes I did only to be then told “welcome to the real world”!