Unlike some, I don't like to sweat! And, unfortunately, I learned through sweating to ask two valuable questions when booking travel to Italy:
1. Does the hotel room have air conditioning?
2. When does the hotel turn on/off the air conditioning for the season?
Simply because a hotel promotes air-conditioned rooms, doesn't mean you will have A/C at your fingertips. On an early May trip to Rome, we were unable to get our A/C unit to cool our room. Upon calling the hotel attendant, we were informed that the building's air conditioning had not yet been turned on for the season. This past October, we arrived in Florence experiencing unseasonably warm weather. The A/C worked wonderfully the first night; the second night it did not. Again, we discovered from the hotel staff that the building's air conditioner was turned off that day for the winter.
I'm now in the process of booking my 2009 trips, and guess what question comes to the top of my mind? Hmmmm....
