Whynter ARC-14S 14,000 BTU Dual Hose Portable Air Conditioner with Dehumidifier and Fan for Rooms Up to 500 Square Feet, Includes Storage Bag, Platinum/Black, AC Unit, 1 Count (Pack of 1)

You'd have to drop around £500 to convert 230V 50Hz to 115V 60Hz on top of an already very expensive air-con unit. Why is this even for sale in the UK?

Excelente producto. Funciona muy bien, es silencioso y enfría las habitaciones rápidamente. El proveedor es uno de los mejores con los que he tratado en Amazon: responde de inmediato, resuelve tus dudas y supera las expectativas para garantizar tu satisfacción al 100%. Altamente recomendado.

First of all this air conditioner changed our lives! When I first was in the market for a portable air conditioner I was very careful to research, research, and research. Yes I was slightly uneasy about ordering an air conditioner online, but called Amazon directly and asked about my options if after I purchased it and it didn't work well for us about the return policy's. Amazon ensured that if it didn't work out then I would be able to return it in its original packaging and because of its size they would have a shipping company come pick it up which I thought for a return they would try to make it as hard as possible to return. So Amazon is a win win in my eyes. My only issue was that this is listed as a Prime eligible product and with my limited Prime knowledge I assumed I would receive it in 2 days which I didn't. I took about 5 so that was a little disappointing. I am very glad I purchased this earlier than the summer or we would have been in trouble just in waiting in a hot house on this thing. Back to the unit… So set up was easy. I allowed for it to sit in an upright position overnight only because I was unsure how the shipping company handled it and wanted to be sure I did everything in my power to continue its longevity. (This is also listed in the directions) The hose connections were easy enough and because I have a taller horizontal sliding window I had an opening that I had to fill with particle board which wasn’t too hard to do. After I set it up I plugged it in and let it sit. The set up pamphlet does recommend buying a special filter to put into one of the hoses which honestly I haven’t done because I haven’t made an honest attempt to find them which I am sure you could at a Home Depot or Lowes. From what I have heard you can also buy insulation tape to cover the hose that produces a lot of heat, but this hasn’t been a problem for us. The Cooling… The cooling is pretty amazing. After reading several reviews I second guessed my decision about purchasing it because it seems like people have great success or great failure. However on our end this AC has cooled our lower level 2 story house amazingly!! Our house is less than 15 years old so it is insulated pretty good, but because our house is North facing we get most of our heat in the back of our house. This cooler sits in the front and cools a vaulted ceiling living room, kitchen and small dinning, hallway, and half way cools the master bedroom on the same floor. All of this area is about 1200 sqft give or take. I originally purchased this to cool the living room, kitchen, and dinning room, which is all open floor plan about 420-450 swft btw, but it cooled even more than I expected. To keep track of the temperature I tried looking on my thermostat for my Heater and it was almost always higher than what it really was I am guessing because it wasn’t cooler in other places in my house. It even kept us cool in 100+ degree weather. It was about 109 outside and the cooler kept it about low to mid 70 in the living, dining, and kitchen. As a side note we purchased a Frigidaire 5,000 BTU 115V Window-Mounted Mini-Compact Air Conditioner that cools a room upstairs and we usually leave the door open just in case it will help with the over all vaulted ceiling space. The Frigidaire is rated for a small room of 250 sqft so I don’t think it is helping too much with the living space, but so you have the full facts to make an informed decision I just wanted to add that in there. This unit is also great and I plan on writing a separate review for this one. However the sum up on the cooling factor for the Whynter is awesome!! We have owned it since the end of May so I can’t speak for its longevity so only time will tell. It is totally worth purchasing for sure! Con’s Honestly these con’s don’t really matter to me because the AC works so well, but I will add them in case they matter to you. As for the noise, yes it is loud. My house usually isn’t pitch quite so it doesn’t really bother me, but if you think about it there is an AC in your house! Central air conditioners are put outside for a reason. THEY ARE LOUD! So to me this doesn’t really stop me from using it. My dish washer is very loud, but you don’t see me scrubbing dishes by hand so I don’t have to hear the noise. Same goes with any other loud appliance in my house. Maybe if it was loud and didn’t cool my house I’d have a problem. The vent on the AC is nothing to be impressed with. I have read that the vent shoots the air straight up. I don’t seem to have that problem. Yes there aren’t very many ways you can control where the air goes, but you can direct it up and down. If you don’t want it shooting straight up you can move it down a notch and it isn’t. Not sure if people thought this would prevent max air flow, but we don’t seem to have a problem. Now the remote is another problem. I have read that if you use the remote you have to keep using the remote because if you switch to the buttons on the unit the remote doesn’t know what the unit knows. This is very true and annoying. However because of where I have the unit positioned behind my couch the remote can’t find the signal to the unit because it is blocked so we pretty much don’t use the remote. Again, not an issue for me because the unit works so well and the only reason I have to push a button is to turn the unit on or off. Not an issue. As for draining due to the dehumidifier. We live in a dry state with low humidity so this hasn’t been a problem. No sure how I would drain it if I needed to, but I have found plenty of YouTube videos on this unit so I am not concerned about it at this point. Portability. Now this is a portable unit per say, but it isn’t really practical to roll around the house for us. I initially thought we could use it for our open floor plan area by day and in our master by night, but to move this, then refit for a different sized window and then do it all over again and again every morning and night it would be a pain in the butt. However if we leave our master bed room door open it cools down enough to be comfortable instead of otherwise sweating as we did before. This AC really did above and beyond what I expected! Now would I recommend this to others?? Heck yes!! It does a great job cooling and we turn it on early in the day so that it keeps the house cool and we don’t have to worry about being uncomfortable. I am able to cook and this AC still can keep the house cooler and us comfortable. We are able to cook/bake for short amounts of time and still be comfortable in 90+ degree weather, but in the 100+ degree weather we found cooking is not an option if we want to stay comfortable and not sweat. We also have blackout curtains and blinds that help to insulate the heat which makes a huge difference so for those that this AC is not working for I would question placement of the unit as well as how insulated your house is not just in between the walls but for window coverings too. We found that using brown colored vertical blinds blocks out the heat way better than the white ones did. I also suggest another unit portable or window-mounted unit to help work together with this unit. If you want a cooler house and don’t want to foot out the bill for central air you should think about other ways to keep it cool because even 2 of these units would be cheaper than central air for us! Hopefully you find your solution because this was it along with the Frigidaire 5,000 BTU 115V Window-Mounted Mini-Compact Air Conditioner for us!!! Good luck and sorry for the unorganized review!

Context : My previous window AC broke, a 10K BTU that was one of the best in the market at the time I bought it. I was moving in a bigger apartment that wasn't as easy to cool down because of the way the rooms are placed. After a little research to find the best portable AC, I had decided on this one. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I LOVE it. I'm seriously considering getting married to this AC. It's one of my favorite thing I bought this year so far. I was a little worried since I like to look at the stuff I buy, try them in the store and stuff like that, mostly on expensive stuff. And since it's heavy, I didn't know how it would work to return it if there was an issue with it. Also had very bad luck with portable AC in the past. But this one is awesome. The dual hose make it so that you don't loose as much BTU power as with other portable AC. It's very easy to put together, and I didn't even really sealed the area around the smaller slider thingy because I cannot be bother about it, but it still works like a charm nonetheless. And we've been having some heat wave lately, but I feel fine and cool. I mostly let the AC in my by bedroom, and even then, with a fan, I can redirect easily the cold air in the whole apartment. The apartment is ~620 squart feet, I have 9 feet ceilling. I mostly close the bathroom and the hall though, the hall is maybe 12 square feet (very small) and the bathroom around 45 square feet (anyway, once the bathroom is cool, it stays that way for a long while). My previous AC couldn't cool down more than ~350 square feet. Also, I love the fact that it can go lower than 64 F, even thoug the room feels a little hotter than that, it's still very nice and cool for me. So you really don't loose much BTU even if it's a portable AC. As for the noise, it's perfect for me. The cooling device makes as much noise and the fan made on my previous AC. So I sometimes wonder if it's working properly because I think it's only the fan when it's the cooling mode that is full on. And I always put the fan at the highest power too. Also, for me, it's good that it at least makes a little noise because it works as white noise when I sleep, so I don't have to hear the neighbors. The only thing I'm still worried about it the draining, but so far, I didn't have to do it. Thing is, the plastic plug that is on the draining hose on the unit is very very hard to open. Will see when it comes to that, and if I have issue with it, I'll come update this review. TL;DR : buy this portable AC, it's a marvelous device, 10/10 would buy it again

Posting a review after owning for 5+ years. It's a beast, big, heavy, cools really well. This has been the best portable AC experience we've had. A bit louder than newer units in 2024/2025, but the compressor still going strong and consistent. Ours runs 12-16hr/day on coolest setting, steady for 8 months a year, going on 6 years. Does a great job to cover 1200sq/ft. Get a good window seal and you are solid. Would buy again. Only downside is the black and silver trim looks like a bad boom box from the 90s, if that's your style.

Got it for my workshop. Works great. Easy to install even in my weird windows, remote works great, and cools even in high heat. Best to start it up before the day starts warming up, but once it’s running it’ll maintain all day. My workshop it pretty huge - around 600 sq ft with very high ceilings and skylights. Not really insulated. Not too loud either.