Hack for getting refunds from false advertising AC in hotels

I booked hotels for multiple countries in Europe that all advertised AC. I CANNOT sleep in a room that is higher than 72, but honestly, 70. Anyways, almost EVERY hotel in my 2 month trip had shit or non existent AC.

If I was staying more than 2 nights I’d always demand they send someone to fix it and EVERY TIME they’d say “it’s working” because the thermostat said it was on or there was a fan sounds, but uh…it’s set to 19 Cand it’s literally so hot the repair person is sweating by minute three in the room. Hysterical.

The first few stays I just groaned and gave up the battle. But then I remembered on my fourth hotel stay - same issue happened - that I can PROVE the AC isn’t doing shit!!

I have this portable carbon monoxide detector that I travel with (read one to many stories of freak accidents in hotels lol), and it also has a thermometer on it!

On this fourth hotel stay, I set the thermostat to 20 C, left all day, and came back and the room was so hot it was honestly hard to breathe. I call for help and same thing - “no, it’s working, just give it time” 😖, and then I got so pissed I whipped my detector out and showed them it was 82 degree Fahrenheit in that room and this “AC” has been on ALLL day!!

The repair guy smirked and called front desk. Okay, now suddenly they admit that they AC is controlled to not go lower than 78 degrees and that worse they have it set seasonally and right now it basically is just a fan and won’t even be actually AC for another few weeks. Yeah, openly lied.

Anyways, I’ve now used this at 5 hotels to catch them and got full or partial refunds or concessions at each for their false advertising.