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[–] [email protected] 163 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Places like Disney do the opposite. Fireworks are late so people stay and spend more money on food, drinks, and extras.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas 19 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of it is also timed for workers. That's why many places have later breakfast times on weekends.

[–] BleatingZombie 12 points 7 months ago

It's sad to say this, but I'm glad there's the occasional point when our employing overlords' incentives and the employees' incentives are lined up

[–] Blue_Morpho 24 points 7 months ago

Everyone comes to the fireworks

Everyone stays for the fireworks. People show up late just for the fireworks. It makes everything harder because of the crowds. Without fireworks people would slowly leave before closing which would be much easier on the staff.

[–] _number8_ 104 points 7 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

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)_/¯

[–] CluckN 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I feel the breakfast buffet was another victim of covid. Hotels probably realized the cost to re-open the buffet wasn’t worth it.

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[–] Holyhandgrenade 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What the hell are bagged eggs?

[–] postmateDumbass 15 points 7 months ago

Testicles come to mind, but are not the answer.

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[–] jaybone 11 points 7 months ago (8 children)
[–] _number8_ 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] pigup 24 points 7 months ago

Our coffee is set to violent diarrhea, for your enjoyment 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Of course a German would post this.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

My favourite one so far offered breakfast & brunch until 1pm.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just as bad is if you're a morning person but they don't serve breakfast until like 10.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a non-morning person, please tell me where these are

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

"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.

[–] FlyingSquid 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That's okay, hotel breakfasts are almost always awful in my experience.

[–] JimVanDeventer 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

“continental” “breakfast”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I can taste the continents already

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (8 children)

FREE hotel breakfasts are almost always awful.

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[–] FollyDolly 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] xpinchx 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Best we can do is some nice iced water with a lemon wedge in it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] jaybone 17 points 7 months ago

They even skimp on the forearm now.

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] BeardedSingleMalt 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
  • 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.

[–] Ensign_Crab 15 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] De_Narm 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's easy, really. Just sleep in enough and start with lunch, at least that's what I do whenever I can.

[–] FireRetardant 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What hotels are you going to that offer free lunch?

[–] De_Narm 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

None, I didn't even know you can get any food for free.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 23 points 7 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Uh, yeah, we got a raisin... Oh it's just raisins. We've got raisins. Ope, that kid just took them.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] wieson 12 points 7 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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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