Why would I spend the time and money on a vacation just to waste it on being lazy? I can do that at home. On vacation I’m up before sunrise, take a shower, and grab breakfast before I start my itinerary for the day.
Ok dad
That sounds like work with extra steps.
Because you could spend more of your time in the evening, when there are more things to do in town.
Mornings are boring. Evenings are exciting.
We have different vacation philosophies. Mornings are nebulous unplanned times for everyone to do what they want like sleeping in, relaxing by the pool, getting brunch at a nice place, and light sight seeing. I usually don’t have scheduled goals/events for the day until afternoons and evenings while on vacation. I can’t enjoy being somewhere new if I’m too burnt out and exhausted to participate and experience it properly.
If I wanted to wake up before my biological clock tells me to and follow a schedule, I could just go to work.
I paid for this uncomfortable hotel mattress, and I’m going to damn well use the fucking thing!
I’m a freelance software dev, you just made me realized I should vacation on a schedule so I have some variety in my life.
You can also maximize your time sleeping in too. Stay out and have fun on the town, head back to the hotel at 3am. Some people are night owls, some people like mornings. Nothing wrong with either.
Personally waking up before sunrise feels awful for my body and brain function, but I get it.
All the hotels i’ve ever stayed in anymore.Don’t have a restaurant or a bar just bare bones. I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express once and it had a pancake machine
Pancake machine sounds fancy.
Thanks! It’s my nickname!
Holiday Inn Express is the most miserable breakfast I’ve ever had in a hotel. The selection was basically lard with sugar on it, and whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine.
I’m normally not much of a breakfast person, but work had booked me in at HIE once, and as I had a long day ahead I had to force myself to eat something. And the selection available didn’t exactly make it easier.
After that I always make sure to book the hotel myself. I’m not that picky in terms of hotel, as long as the eatery is decent.
Yeah, uh… Don’t know how to say this, but if your water smells like chlorine, I don’t recommend drinking it. Might be ok for survival, but it’s definitely not for regular consumption.
whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine
Well that’s concerning
I never had tap water in the US that didn’t. No wonder why bottled water is so popular there. I’m sure they have better water in more mountainous states, but TX, LA, MS and AL tastes like chlorinated swamp.
Most of my life I’ve lived in places where the tap water comes from natural lakes in nearby mountains, with bird poop as the only additive. I therefore notice the chlorine very easily, to the point where my coworkers claim they don’t notice it at all.
In New Zealand our tap water is mostly okay to good, with the exception of Whanganui. Tap water there has lots of lime (not the fruit) in it so I tend not to drink tap water as a habit, despite living in the south island now which has nice and cold tap water pretty much everywhere. Never heard of chlorine in the tap water around here lol
Does lime have a flavor to it?
I like Drury Inns. They do have the standard “breakfast ends at 9:30” thing which sucks for late sleepers, but they also have a 5-7 pm “happy hour” with snacks and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided gratis. It’s a way to avoid paying for dinner if you can do it and you don’t care about your dinner being snacky stuff, but if you’re on vacation, let dinner be snacky stuff.
I love having breakfast early in the monring in hotels when most people are still asleep. I can take my time, read in peace, no queue for the coffee, etc…
I am the same. I wake up early regardless and my wife and daughter don’t, so I can go downstairs and have breakfast and hang out down there for a while as they sleep and then get them up 20 minutes before they stop serving it.
Isn’t it usually like 10am? If you can’t be fucked to get free food that’s on you.
10 is late for most of them - 9 is pretty common. If you’re at the kind of vacation place where you’re hanging out and relaxing, maybe staying up late, waking up at 8 so you can get ready and get down to eat breakfast, doesn’t feel like last relaxing, which is OP’s point. Of course people can do it, but a lot of times we want to sleep in on vacation.
The trick is to get food and then go back to sleeping in, but with a full belly
I wish I could, but once I’m awake enough to be up, that’s it for me.
Last hotel I stayed at that actually served breakfast was 6am-7am.
No hotel anywhere only serves breakfast for one hour. Nice try though.
I really hate to break it to you, but I was at one last summer that had the same hours.
Just because you haven’t experienced it doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Yeah it does though. It’s called lying on the internet which you’re doing.
What a friendly and reasonable response.
Wow! Lying on the Internet is easy!
It was the best western “glo” hotel in desoto texas, in 2021.
I tried looking up official information on the hotel but all it says anywhere is that they serve breakfast, not the hours.
So next I tried looking at reviews, most of which don’t say anything about the official breakfast hours, but some comment that if you’re not at the breakfast bar early they stock it once and then take it down when it’s empty, so regardless of given hours my experience was accurate.
Some did quote supposed breakfast hours they were given, with varying times of 6-10, 6-11, 6-8 or something else, but mostly in the context of complaining that indeed, if you’re not there in the first hour, you’re going to have to settle for dry bagels or nothing at all.
I was told 6-7 by the front desk upon check-in. I don’t recall seeing a sign or anything written.
Now, this was a really weird hill you chose to die on, but you got me to do more digging into a 2-day hotel stay from three years ago then I expected on my lunch break, so I suppose you can be proud of yourself.
The last time I stayed at a hotel, they stopped filling the breakfast bar at like 7 and served whatever was left until 9.
Your company sent you to some shit hotels then. I think the earliest breakfast end time I’ve been to is 8am, and that one was a bit more expensive than the others. Most hotels I stay at serve breakfast until 10am.
Serve until 10, but do they keep putting out new food until then? The ones I’m used to serve until 9 but don’t put out any new food after 7.
Oh, if that’s what you mean then fair enough. A lot of the places I’ve been to stop cooking at around 8, so 2 hours under heat is fine imo
I’m not the person you are replying to, but my experience has been that they don’t make any new food after ~8AM and most of the good stuff is pilfered before then, so although they serve until 9 or 10, there’s rarely anything left if you arrive close to the end (or anything that you’d want to eat)
Was it a Super8 or Motel 6? I bet it was. No place that offers breakfast and is also worth staying at at any price does that. On the bright side you now know where not to go.
When I traveled for work, we mostly used Mariott or Hyatt or occasionally Holiday Inn. Not much choice when you have to stay wherever the company has an account. The one I described above was Mariott.
Depending on the assignment, I often had to work nights, so “just get up earlier” wasn’t really an option.
I don’t think Motel 6 or Super 8 serve Continental breakfast.
Continental breakfast is a child size box of cereal, a little carton of milk and a piece of fruit. That’s it. They put it out on a folding table.
Seems like it used to be 10, but everywhere I’ve been in recent years is 11.
You got me fucked up if I’m waking up early on my master approved break from wage slaving. I’m waking up at noon and I’m having a bowl for breakfast.
Bowl of peanut butter crunch.
After ripping a steamroller of course
ripping a steamroller across your favorite shirt.
After getting high of course
high up in the hotel because the club level’s breakfast has an omelette station.
After smoking marijuana of course
The smoked marinara dipping sauce is a regional favorite, complementary offered at all meals to the hotel’s guests.
After inhaling thc vapors purely for recreation of course
The gnc flavors of vitamins go well with a healthy bowl of fresh fruit for your daily nutritional and fiber needs.
After freebasing an eight-ball of crack cocaine of course.
Thanks for reminding me of the high school days. Very painful memories.
The worst breakfast I ever had was at a Courtyard Marriott that was under renovation. Since then, I made a policy to find the best local breakfast diner any place I went, even if the hotel breakfast was included.
Haven’t regretted it once.
It’s because they don’t want to give out free food (but want to make it seem like they do want to give out free food), so they will make it available only when people are less likely to go for it.
Free food? Since when is the hotel food free?
Here you always have to pay for it even if you usually do it when booking
In the US several hotels will offer a “continental breakfast” included with the stay. I guess you could argue that it’s not really free, considering it’s factored into your stay at the hotel, but there is technically not a separate charge for it and it’s considered an “amenity”. I know that this is not necessarily common in other places, so I thought I would mention in case you were not aware.
I’d say you’re correct except now it’s more “used to offer”. In Europe it’s usually included and it’s a good spread, in the US it was a decent spread, then cereal and processed muffins, and now it’s… A Starbucks Togo you have to pay for
I don’t know where everyone is staying but I normally get a choice of single serve cereal bowls, bagels with maybe 3 types of spread, some type of juice, coffee, milk, and occasionally a selection of fruit. Everything is served with cheap plastic or cardboard not silverware, glass, cloth or ceramic.
You forgot the waffle/ pancake machine.
4-5 star hotels in Europe tend to serve quality food in a decent tableware.
That would be a continental breakfast. What’s shown in the picture is closer to an English breakfast
The US doesn’t have anything called an English breakfast outside of restaurants which specifically cater to that. Aside from what looks like quiche, that looks like a pretty standard continental breakfast.
Holy fuck you guys have low expectations for a continental breakfast 😂
I went to a 3-star hotel that was also doing this. Their free breakfast also includes eggs that came from a carton.
I honestly wouldn’t know because they clean that shit up at 9:30.
I have never seen a hotel breakfast that wasn’t being put away by 9am.
Do people eat breakfast past 7am
Do people wake up before 7am?
I like breakfast around 10-10:30, +/-, so yeah.
Don’t you have some soil to till?
Pretty much every hotel without “inn” in the name has at least reconstituted egg foam, bacon, and sausage.
Why would I have breakfast right before going to sleep?
Breakfast to end a heavy night is awesome though. Just like the classic fast food on the way home. Hotel breakfast is even a classic for that too.
This is why you don’t pay for breakfast (if you have the option), wake up late at your time and go discover a local spot and some food to eat as breakfast/lunch item.
I believe that’s called Brunch in classical English.
You know another way you’re not allowed to be lazy on vacation?
If you get an AirBnB, you have to clean the place before you leave.
Hotels have cleaners who clean your room so you can leave it a mess. I shouldn’t have to do chores when I’m on vacation. One of many reasons I prefer hotels.
Cleaning fee and also you have to clean up before you go. What is the cleaning fee for?
What is the cleaning fee for?
It goes towards the owner’s next single-family home that they’ll turn into a rental
Only reason I use an AirBNB is if it’s a unique location where there are no hotels (like a cabin in the woods on a river or something) but I agree, I only book ones that don’t have a ridiculous checkout policy.
I also hate that private equity has taken over towns with short term rentals making the rest of us pay more in rent.
We once used it back when it really was just individual people with extra places renting them out short-term when we stayed in New York, but that was like 2009. And then my mom insisted on paying for one when she went with me to the Mayo Clinic earlier this year, but at least it was just someone renting out the bottom half of the duplex they owned and not a corporation… but yeah, unless there’s just not another good option, I’m not doing AirBnB when it’s my choice.
AirBnB was better than hotels for like a year or two, then the landleeches got greedy
I don’t want the shitty hotel breakfast anyway, so there! 😛
Have you been to a hotel breakfast in Europe? So heavenly
I haven’t. Where’s the best? I’ve always wanted to see Belgium
Lmao what
Words I never thought I’d read
Literally most places, and depends on what you like. I think anywhere in France is the tits for delicious food (try traveling outside of Paris as well).
I’ve been to Sweden a couple times, and the real food they serve in hotels or cafeterias versus the industrial processed eating product that we usually have in the US really puts us to shame.
But that goes for many aspects of the culture. The whole, you know, respect other humans thing.
Eh, I’ve had better in every restaurant around the hotel.
Can confirm, been to hotels all over Europe, even the fancy a la carte ones are fairly shitty if you dont need breakfast like a normie morning person.
Europe is a pretty big continent…the breakfast you get in the Netherlands is going to be different to the one you get in France or the UK.
Italy vs. Germany. The only occasion where Germany wins against Italy when it comes to food. But Turkey is where the real breakfast kings reside.
Hold up- did you just say German food is better than Italian? I have never once in my life seen a German restaurant. Italian restaurants are all over the place
Edit: apologies. I misread and that you said “is when it comes to food”. Sounds like I need to try me some German breakfast.
Sounds like I need to try me some German breakfast.
German breakfast is good, but it isn’t the greates breakfast on earth. But Italian breakfast is terrible. It is basically coffee and some sweet pastry.
IDK I might be biased but what you described sounds like heaven.
Meanwhile Germans fry sausages at every occasion, call that cuisine, and yet aren’t event the best in Europe at doing that.
No fried sausage at a German breakfast. That is England.
Yes, we have several hotels over here, in the county (city? village?) of Europe.
Okay I’ve had hotel breakfasts in literally those three and it was great. But you make a good point.
Yes, but many big hotel chains have a buffet style breakfast that does not only include typical local food. For instance in France a local breakfast would be bread, croissant or other pastries, and a coffee, but you would also find scrambled eggs, bacon, cereal, etc.
Smaller hotels will be more local though yes.
That’s a continental breakfast, and they’re popular in the US too, both east and west coast.
I don’t know what hotels you go to but my experience has been pretty mid across most of Europe. Bog-standard continental breakfast buffets. Croissants, orange juice, cereal, toast, all of mediocre quality.
Not terrible as it is, but you can likely get infinitely better breakfast by hopping over to any cafe across the street.
Strongly disagree, I’ve stayed in a fair few hotels around the world. Best are usually US or Asia(not China)
Lmao you consider dry powdered eggs that peak cuisine or something?
10am is not sunrise
Life hack, you are absurdly drunk at 3am asking for French toast and Cheerios. Me 1, Hotel 0
