I hesitated to take a standing fan, especially for storage: it takes a little space.
But to use it is actually much more practical: one can sleep with just a breeze by setting the right height and tinker without a support in the middle of the room.
The unit is very quiet in my opinion and the breeze function allows to leave it in the same position without rotating with intermittent air flow: months of noise and avoid getting sick.
There is a supplied remote appreciable when one is at the bottom of his bed
