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    The Hotel Thermostat Hack That Went Horribly Wrong

    by SharonKurheg May 5, 2024
    by SharonKurheg May 5, 2024

    Joe and I have been friends with Stephan and Emilio for years. But besides the friendship, Stephan, in particular, has been a longtime reader of Your Mileage May Vary. He’s …

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  • Hotels

    Is Your Room Too Warm? Maybe Your Hotel Is Listening To These People

    by joeheg February 18, 2024
    by joeheg February 18, 2024

    Sharon and I disagree about the optimal temperature of a hotel room. While we’ve reached an agreement on the daytime and evening thermostat temperature at home and if/when we’ll turn …

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  • Weekly Recap

    Airline Bans Popular Checked Bag, Why Your Passport is That Color, Why Hotels Have Free Ice Machines

    by SharonKurheg December 16, 2023
    by SharonKurheg December 16, 2023

    Hi, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past few weeks. Some of our recent most-read posts have been: Another airline …

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  • Hotels

    How To Override Hotel Thermostat Settings (Updated February, 2026)

    by SharonKurheg September 2, 2023
    by SharonKurheg September 2, 2023

    Trying to figure out how to unlock the “Hotel Mode” setting on your hotel’s television? We’ve got your covered! And now back to thermostats… As we wrote a while back, …

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  • Hotels

    Hotels Have A New Way To Keep You From Changing The Temperature In Your Room

    by joeheg March 3, 2022
    by joeheg March 3, 2022

    Setting the temperature of your hotel room has become a cat and mouse game between guests and the hotel management. People just want to set their rooms to a comfortable …

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  • Hotels

    “Motion Sensor Hotel Thermostats Make Your Room More Comfortable,” Says Company That Manufactures Them

    by joeheg February 16, 2022
    by joeheg February 16, 2022

    If you’ve ever stayed at a hotel where a motion sensor controlled the thermostat, you know the unpleasant feeling of walking into a hot room when all you want to …

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  • Weekly Recap

    Dumbest Name Ever For A Marriott Property, Paranoia About AMEX’s Spending Requirements, American Airlines Moving Asian Hub From LAX

    by SharonKurheg September 26, 2020
    by SharonKurheg September 26, 2020

    Hello, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past week or two. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that …

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  • Weekly Recap

    Celebration, FL: The Problems Of The Town Disney Built, A Perfect Credit Score Doesn’t Feel That Good, 20 Travel Complaints From Not Smart People, & More

    by SharonKurheg August 29, 2020
    by SharonKurheg August 29, 2020

    Hello, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past week or two. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that …

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  • Weekly Recap

    “Karen” vs. United 1K Member, Overriding Hotel Thermostat Settings, Our Dinner At The Pan Am Experience, & More!

    by SharonKurheg February 22, 2020
    by SharonKurheg February 22, 2020

    Happy Saturday friends, and hooray, it’s finally the weekend! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV this week. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we …

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  • Weekly Recap

    Our Dinner Inside Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Woman Boards Flight With No ID Or Ticket, How To Prevent Items From Being Stolen At X-Ray, & More!

    by SharonKurheg November 8, 2019
    by SharonKurheg November 8, 2019

    And BOOM, another month is done! Hello, November! Here are our most popular posts for October 2019. Some of them were actually written before October (heads up that rules and …

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