It seems like every appliance I buy lately has a remote control. Anticipating complaints I usually just hide them. If people want to adjust the air conditioner, fans, electric heaters, etc. they can get up and go there.
Unfortunately that won’t work with the new TV. If there’s any way to use it without the remote I can’t figure it out.
So the last guests managed to lose it, hide it, destroy it or steal it. It’s probably in the house somewhere, but the subsequent guest did a thorough search and couldn’t find it.
For us, it means an unplanned and unnecessary 1-hr + drive to Walmart to buy a $10 replacement.
I bought a spare because I expect it to happen again.
I have stayed in hotels where they demanded a deposit for the remote control, which you received and returned to the desk clerk. I don’t really feel like doing that.
The question is, “What do you do about the remote controls?”
In our condo in Panama I mounted a holder on the wall for the A/C remote, and it has never gotten lost. That wouldn’t work well for the TV remote though.