Originally Posted by
Aventine
The King of Aircon will not be gracing this property with his Ambassadorship.
I don't know if the room is fully glass but most room aircons struggle with solar radiation coming in and blinds up. PH Busan comes to mind with their Oceanview Marina suites. I think it wouldn't go down beyond 23 or 24 degrees. Small vents and not enough aircon. It could be an inferior HVAC system because our rooms at FS Jumeirah Beach and Abu Dhabi kept it VERY cool even with the curtains up.
Not all glass and wasn’t even on the top floor! Running the aircon non-stop max fan and lowest temp setting with the blackout shades down, best result for the entirety of the stay was 19.3. It was only an issue with that room. By the time they found a suitable room to move me to it was 2pm the day before checkout and I didn’t feel like dealing with the hassle so I told them to just forget it. A handful of the staff were very helpful, ashamed of the hotel’s condition and really wanted to help but the ancient physical plant let them down. One of them remarked how badly the hotel needs to be redone, but that closing for a facelift would put 5-600 people out of work and that they can’t do it piecemeal because the construction noise would bother guests. Not sure what their best option going forwards is! I can be sure I won’t return though, and hopefully there’s no reason I ever have to return to Bahrain in general. Perhaps my least favorite country ever.