Furnaces, for better or worse, in many rooms including brands such as; Sheraton, Hyatt, Crowne Plaza, Marriott - you can see thermostats with heat/off/cold.
It sucks, but I eventually figured it out. I was freezing too
Originally Posted by
DrRodneyMcKay
well, the thermostat tells you the temperature the room is at, so presumably if you press the "up" button to increase the temperature, and it shows a higher number, then the temperature should go up. I mean, you'd think they'd have either some kind of in-room censor (so that the thermostat can actually tell you what the temperature is) or that it would be programmed so that when you try to increase the temperature, it doesn't blow out the temperature-decreasing (cold) air. I don't see why this is difficult to do in this day and age.