It’s specifically timed: you get up and get dressed for the free breakfast, get back to your room and you’re like, “Well, I’m already up and dressed and everything, I might as well hit the road!” And you leave, conveniently leaving the room available for Housekeeping to clean for those early arrivals.
Amusement parks will do something similar: time a fireworks display in a central-ish area near the end of the night. Everyone comes to the fireworks, they end and everyone looks at tl the time and is like, “Well, there’s just enough time for one more ride / snack / set of games”, and then we’ll have to leave," ignoring the way you’ve been collected to a central(ish) location and primed to leave, making the job for closing security much easier.
Places like Disney do the opposite. Fireworks are late so people stay and spend more money on food, drinks, and extras.
Fireworks at most amusement parks, but especially Disney, just gather everyone outside of restaurants and gifts shops, so those can try to start closing up while the fireworks are happening. Fireworks end, everything is closed, everyone takes the hint to use the restroom one last time and GTFO.
I know when I was younger and went to Disney in Paris that they still had parades in the themed zones like an hour before closing. So I can believe that.
A lot of it is also timed for workers. That’s why many places have later breakfast times on weekends.
Hotel: Advertises full breakfast
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!
Our coffee is set to violent diarrhea, for your enjoyment 🙂
As someone who almost exclusively eats those shitty muffins: come on, at least they’re packaged on their own usually!
The oddly shriveled sausage ain’t too bad.
And you better be up at 6:30 to put your towel on a pool chair. We tell you not to do it but do nothing about it. Enjoy!
Of course a German would post this.
Why would you think I’m German?
Because you’re using a German Lemmy server?
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.
Ah the instance. I kind of just stuck there. The second argument would mean I’m not German though, right? Since I don’t like it.
Complaining is also a very German habit.
Touché! I’m not German though.
I throw towels. I won’t tolerate that sort of silliness. You’re not here? I am.
I’m too afraid of confrontation to do that. I wish I could though.
My favourite one so far offered breakfast & brunch until 1pm.
Just as bad is if you’re a morning person but they don’t serve breakfast until like 10.
As a non-morning person, please tell me where these are
I find them frequently when staying at a B&B
That’s okay, hotel breakfasts are almost always awful in my experience.
“continental” “breakfast”
If there’s bacon and sausage, no matter how sad looking, it’s American breakfast.
Continental breakfast is European style — bread, butter, and jam, pastries, maybe some yogurt. Hardboiled eggs if you’re lucky.
no matter how sad looking, it’s American breakfast
especially if it’s sad looking
I can taste the continents already
That’s not continental, that’s American breakfast.
Also, is that a disposable plate? Never seen such thing in a hotel, you must stop booking on Airbnb.
FREE hotel breakfasts are almost always awful.
If I’m going to have to pay for breakfast anyway, I might as well go to a restaurant that specializes in breakfast.
Dame, where in the world are you staying. Most hotels in my country have good to amazing breakfast and I have never heard about paying for breakfast.
In the US, most “free” (or included) hotel breakfasts range from bad to terrible. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between.
Whereas my experience in Scandinavia was the opposite. Breakfasts were generally included or at least offered, and they ranged from alright to amazing. The only issue I had was that they all seemed to be following the same playbook (more or less). Some more variety would be nice.
That sounds like the Swedish hotels I know, alright to amazing, but mostly the same stuff. Personally I’m perfectly fine with that as I know there is always something I can eat, that is a very comfortable feeling when I’m out and about.
Like the other guy said, this is the US we’re talking about. Please tell us what country you’re from so I can come verify your claim myself.
Sweden and you are so welcome.
Thanks, I’ll consider it.
At least in America yeah unfortunately
Gross eggs, overcooked bacon, burnt waffles. Not my style either. Your right
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A belgian waffle machine that is caked in burnt dough
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The bacon is flimsy and under cooked
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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
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The kids leave a plate full of waffles floating in a pool of syrup, 4 bites taken
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Half the 4 seater tables are taken up by 1 person, with plenty of 2-seaters wide open
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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.
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Uh, yeah, we got a raisin… Oh it’s just raisins. We’ve got raisins. Ope, that kid just took them.
Ope!
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.
Skill issue
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.
Idk I’ve never had issues sleeping while traveling, and I don’t do it very often.
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”.
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.
The trick is get drunk before sleep. Or sleeping pills
This is so fucking true!
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.
Ask me how I know.
Wrong!!
If you are depressed enough you can sleep anywhere
I sleep great in hotels, as long as they have good pillows and a comfortable bed.
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.
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HOTELS: this is a place to relax, unwind, and take it easy
ALSO HOTELS: we stop serving breakfast at sunrise
“The best stuff” at a Continental breakfast anymore is prepackaged, unfortunately. The eggs are gross, the baked goods are stale, and it’s always disappointing. I barely even try it anymore and bring my own stuff rather than suffering through that crap.
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.
Also the definition of breakfast is best applied to pets and small animals because the amount and quality of food given is not meant for a full grown human adult.
Found the American.
Besides that, most hotel breakfasts I’ve seen in Europe were buffet like. Which is all you can eat usually.
I often eat at six am and at 8 pm. I need a largebreakfast since theres usually a 12 hour gap minimum between my meals. Also people do manual labor jobs for example, I ate a lot more when I was wroking at an amazon warehouse. Nearly the sam amount I ate in middle school.
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”)
- Yogurt
- Bagles, English muffins, and toast
- Cinnamon rolls
- Muffin
