I am interested in hearing about other host's experiences with air-conditioning.
Each of my two guest rooms has ceiling fans and an air-conditioning unit in the room. I have fans on all through the house, a lovely cool pool to jump into and pleasant breezes on the back deck. Most of my guests use the entire house and make use of all of these alternatives to constant air conditioning use, but ..... what do I do about the ones that stay in their room with the air-con on all day, not even bothering to switch it off when they come out to prepare a meal?
My assumption when I started Airbnb was that my guests would be tourists who are busy in the daytime exploring the region, and so would only be at home in the evening and early morning when it's cooler anyway. How wrong I have been! So what do I do? Hold the remote and charge for aircon use? Put up my room charges for summer to try to cover the costs? Feeling stressed that with all the overheads, I'm not actually making any money right now.
Jan