When I was travelling with my fiance, we had to stop at a few hotels on our travels, and at every hotel we opted to go to, I insisted that they show us that the air conditioning was working before we paid for our room; This very went well for most of these hotels, and I was really glad to have insisted because there was a place that had a broken down a/c in the room that was available, and because that hotel didn’t have any other vacant rooms, we ended up driving further down the road to find a hotel that did have a working air conditioner.
I would settle for no less because I was tired from all that driving plus I needed to get rest for the long drive ahead of us.
There was this one certain motel that we opted to go to and their air conditioner wasn’t very good. I was very disappointed, but the owners said there wasn’t another motel for at least another hour of driving. Because I was so tired, we ended up taking the room. The unbelievable thing is that the owners provided us with an extra stationary fan to help keep us cool. The a/c was working, it just wasn’t working very good. The room wasn’t particularly stifling, but it absolutely could have been more comfortable. The fan helped a lot plus I’m glad that it cooled off some during the night so that made it easier to rest that night. I actually must say that it can be hard finding a decent place to stay on the road sometimes.