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I stg it used to be (probably around pre 2020) that even the shitty hole in the wall motels had like pretty comfy solid breakfast - bagged eggs (my guilty pleasure) and cool steampunk communal toasters and shit. now it's like mini cereal boxes and maybe bagged muffins.
getting old is hell. everything gets worse and most people just try to ignore it
I was going to a Day's Inn yearly for a river floating trip, and each year their breakfast got shittier and shittier.
They used to have a Texas shaped (self-serve) waffle maker, muffins, toast, juice, and jam. Now it's single serving cereal boxes and room temperature OJ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel the breakfast buffet was another victim of covid. Hotels probably realized the cost to re-open the buffet wasn’t worth it.
What the hell are bagged eggs?
Testicles come to mind, but are not the answer.
What are bagged eggs?
haha i mean like these sort of scrambled eggs: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/martins-quality-eggs-5-lb-frozen-boil-in-bag-scrambled-egg-mix-case/873331035.html
they have a particular flavor / consistency / vibe that i find comforting
Hotels have gotten worse. I travel for work often and I can see it. Housekeeping every day isn't a given anymore since Covid and the breakfasts have continued to decline. Pretty much all I will get at hotel breakfast these days is an apple and nuclear reactor temperature coffee.
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 🙂
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!
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.
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.
I can taste the continents already
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.
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.
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
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.
Best we can do is some nice iced water with a lemon wedge in it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
They even skimp on the forearm now.
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.
It's easy, really. Just sleep in enough and start with lunch, at least that's what I do whenever I can.
What hotels are you going to that offer free lunch?
None, I didn't even know you can get any food for free.
It is very common at the majority of hotels (in the US at least), that there is a daily free breakfast available to all guests in or near the lobby. It is buffet style and available within a time window that's often on the earlier side. The quality varies some, but it's normally on the cheap side. But for something that is included in the price of the room and gives you something warm and filling in the morning, it's often good enough in my experience. Some that I've had were even notably good. Though there has been a couple hotels where the food was so limited in selection or poor enough in quality that I chose to go out for a hot breakfast instead.
Each Embassy Suites location I've stayed at had an hour at night where drinks were cheaper at their bar if you're staying there, and they had an amazing omelette bar in the morning complete with other options. Surprisingly it was one of the less expensive hotel options, too!
Uh, yeah, we got a raisin... Oh it's just raisins. We've got raisins. Ope, that kid just took them.
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.
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.