Thermostats at Caesars Palace

[Alan Mendelson]

I admit this is not the typical thread for our Las Vegas Forum but I thought it unusual enough to take the photos below and to post this thread.

Below are two photos of the same thermostat at Caesars Palace. I hope that you can see in the close-up photo that the temperature was set at 67-degrees.

The wider photo shows the thermostat again on the wall without any protection.

I was able to change the temperature on the thermostat just to prove to myself that this thermostat was "open" to anyone to change it -- but then I changed it back to the original 67-degrees. Why did I do this?

I did it because this thermostat controlled the public floor areas on my floor in the Augustus Tower at Caesars Palace, and the thermostat was clearly visible and unprotected from tampering next to the elevators.

First, I found it unusual that thermostats would be "open" and unprotected so that anyone could tamper -- change -- them.

Secondly, I found it unusual that the temperature was set at 67-degrees. And it was a cold 67-degrees.

Whatever happened to "Code Green" which is the environmental program that Caesars touts? Aren't we supposed to set thermostats for air conditioning at 72-degrees or there abouts?

By the way, I was there for four days and the temperature was always a cold 67-degrees.

Here's a link to the Consumer Reports article about thermostat settings. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/n...oner/index.htm

[OceanCityMD]

Common technology to install these for monitoring (remotely) ambient temperatures.
Most facilities have monitoring companies (remotely- Home Depot, Walmart, Hotels, etc.) who remotely adjusts the 'Zones' for the greater efficiency.
You can push the buttons all you want, nothing will happen to the HVAC air handlers, but may give visitors the illusion of control.
Sort of like 'RNG's' on V P games.......
Far cheaper and simpler to utilize the existing stat wire and cheapo thermostats then add rheostats, sensing probes, run new wiring etc.

[Rob.Singer]

67 is not normal for anywhere in the summer. Could be somebody lowered it just to be funny.

[Alan Mendelson]

Four straight days at 67.0 wasn't funny.

[Dan Druff]

The hallways in the Augustus Tower are always freezing.

Never understood why they over-air-condition like that.

[Stu Allen]

Hello all, long time lurker, first time poster here. I agree with OceanCityMD that the controls probably don't mean much of anything, especially in the public areas. I think it is intentional, especially in the gaming areas, for the casinos to keep it exceptionally cold, as that is a good way to keep people awake and alert. If they kept it warm people would get drowsy and that probably would not be good for the take! And maybe even in the rooms the thermostats don't do much. I just stayed at the Rio last weekend in the Masquerade Suite and the room seemed warm to me the first day. I finally found the sweet spot for the AC at the 65 degrees setting, and on the thermostat there was a button to show the current temperature and when set at 65 the room temp settled at about 72. And I seriously doubt the room temperature was actually at 72, I keep my own house AC set to 78.

[Alan Mendelson]

Stu Allen thanks for joining and for posting.

Hold it. Fact check here:


1. I definitely can control temperature and fan intensity in my room. As soon as I show up, I raised the temperature usually to 75 and have the fan at the lowest possible setting.

2. I did raise the temperature on that hallway thermostat by the elevators and when I did the fan cut off. Then I lowered the temperature back to 67.0 which was the original setting. And even if I couldn't control the thermostat and it was controlled by some central location -- isn't it a bigger "bad" that at the central location they have a hallway set at 67.0 ???

3. Yes, the casinos are kept cold to keep people "awake." I always wear some kind of jacket --even in the summer -- in every casino I've ever been in because they are all the same and kept deliberately cold.

4. Like Dan, I can't understand why energy is wasted keeping a hallway in the Augustus Tower so cold. No one spends time in the hallway. You use the hallway for one purpose and one purpose only -- to get from your room to the elevator, or from the elevator to your room. Even the hotel staffers don't use the hallway for anything but for "traveling" to guests room to either do housecleaning or to deliver room service.