A belgian waffle machine that is caked in burnt dough
The bacon is flimsy and under cooked
Plain bagels stiff from being left out too long and a load of white break next to a toaster you have to cycle 3 times
The kids leave a plate full of waffles floating in a pool of syrup, 4 bites taken
Half the 4 seater tables are taken up by 1 person, with plenty of 2-seaters wide open
Regular and decaf coffee that tastes burnt, and only powdered creamer, offers tea but it’s so picked over it’s 2-3 types of fruity chai or chamomile, green tea.
And most of this is stuff the staff can’t do anything about:
Waffle Machine: some doofus walked away and burnt a waffle in it, fucking things up for everyone
Bacon: flimsy because brand standard, “undercooked” because it goes straight from being cooked to a steam table. Goes from being soaked in hot grease to humid and never crisps up.
Bagels: cheap hotel management doesn’t let staff throw out stale bread unless it’s moldy. Also it came out of the freezer.
Toaster: Management knows it’s broken and doesn’t care.
Kids: are kids.
Tables: people are inconsiderate jerks.
Coffee: Brand standard.
Creamer: Brand standard.
Tea: Black tea goes quick, and breakfast is understaffed, often by one person who has to make sure there’s sufficient undercooked bacon, fresh burnt coffee, stale bagels, fruity tea, and powdered creamer to go around. And cleaning the sticky 4 seat tables the kids left before they’re occupied by a single person. And emptying the overflowing trash multiple times per breakfast.
The only thing that happens when guests complain is that the hotel blames the staff.
AND you’re complaining about putting towels on pool chairs early in the morning in order to reserve them for the whole day, which is a quintessentially German habit.
This is a myth. Unless you are dead tired and utterly exhausted, you’ll never sleep all that well in a hotel room because in the back of your little mammalian brain you’ll always “know” that it’s not “home,” and you won’t ever feel entirely comfortable until you’ve slept there for a few nights.
So it’s not really like the “escape” herein described.
Unless you travel all the time, in which case again, it’s not really an “escape” and is just more of the same.
Also, if you’ve got a long series of flights, get drunk the night before and you can save yourself a lot of trouble by sleeping through most of the nonsense.
I’m now in my third week of my trip, I’ve slept in at least six different places, and I’ve yet to feel comfortable sleeping. There’s a feeling of uneasy I can’t shake off .
I love that feeling, because of my wife, we happened to travel a lot, and I mean way more than what’s considered a healthy amount of holidays.
Now visiting a foreign city is nothing new, same of the same. Sleeping in hotel is the usual thing, but I miss the first times we travelled, the wonder and mystery of a new place and that feeling of “I don’t belong here”.
But in all seriousness, it’s not a universal condition. I can sleep fine. I haven’t travelled that much in my life, but this year I was on the road for half of it. Hotels with thin walls, car traffic with an open window, the lot. Never had problems sleeping.
I havent really experienced that tbh. But unlike (seemingly) most people these days I don’t really have issues with falling asleep in general. I fall asleep just fine in hotels. Personally my issue with hotels is that it usually gets quite messy due to the limited space and also I sometimes get a sore back from the too soft beds.
I’ve only had this happen once, and it was at the cheapest, grungiest motel I’ve ever been in. I don’t think I would have wanted their breakfast anyway.
The best one is airport hotels you can get an full-on breakfast at 4:00am in the morning it’s fantastic. Especially useful if their 4:00 a.m. is your 3:00 p.m. and you can have an afternoon snack.
Pretty much every holiday inn I stay at for work has had a decent breakfast. They run 6:30 to 9 and keeps things well stocked at least until 8 (I’m never there later)
They’ve all had the same “menu”, plus or minus a few things. They tend to rotate the hot items every otherday.
An omelet thing, cheese or veggie
Scrambled eggs
Home Frys
Gravey and bisket
Sausage and/or bacon
A 1-minute pancake machine that usually works…kind of
Ceareal
fruit
A juice machine
Coffe
Hot water
Hot cocoa packs
Tea pouches
Milk cartons (these are usually terrible, a lot are weird “organic” brands or “skimed to be 90% water”)
Many others in the thread talked about their hotels that give them a bagged egg and stale cereal, so I decided to share my relatively consistent experience with a hotel chain. These forms are the last place for hopefully actual reviews/information. The alternatives are ad-infected paid ‘reviews’ or a pile of google/yelp reviews that basically amount to “if I could give 0 stars I would because the hotel internet went down during a hurricane” or “10/10 recommend”
Is Holiday inn the cheapest option? no. Is it possible I’ve just lucked out with the ones in my region? yes.
But clearly some people value breakfast at hotels, and I choose to share an option in detail.
Taking it easy means waking up around 10 and hitting the lobby at 11 or 12 for breakfast. Also 8 is literally sunrise depending on location/time of year
You’re not wrong but after having this exact breakfast at HIE and Hampton Inn about 50+ times, it’s crap. Bland and repetitive and usually cold but somehow over cooked or the most undercooked eggs/bacon. My company always strongly recommends booking a room with breakfast included, but f that I’ll go find a $10 diner and have real bacon.
Me:I’m so hungry, its great that I don’t have to cook
Breakfast: We have pre-made heat lamp eggs, Bacon and sausage are only served til 7am, the toaster doesn’t work at the moment, all the fruit was eaten but you can have all the cereal and shitty hotel muffins you want!
I’m sorry but this is some Boomer ass shit. Why would to eat food made in a hotel? Its really basic and made poorly because they are offering it for free. I’d rather get something cheap from a fast food place being real. No time limit, you get whatever you want, and its cheap.
Man, just stay at nicer hotels if you care about the breakfast. It’s not hard to make a decent enough breakfast, and my understanding is hotels don’t really want to mess up the breakfast because they’ll scare off the lucrative travelling worker demographic that doesn’t have time to go and find a better breakfast outside the hotel.
Idk maybe I’ve just been lucky with the hotels I’ve stayed in, though the standard seems a bit lower in the USA compared to everywhere else if you’re from there
Most hotels I’ve been put up in for work don’t even have a free breakfast. If your lucky you’ll get some coffee and maybe a free cookie from the lobby if they have them out.
Huh, I stayed at a Hyatt recently and they had fresh scrambled eggs, “fresh” cooked sausage, fresh fruit, a waffle maker, cereals and bagels. All pretty mid quality, but it worked
Most lower end hotels suspended their breakfast buffets during the pandemic in lieu of handing you a muffin and a yogurt, and somehow never went back after it was over. I consider this a form of shrinkflation.
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