Breakfasts in hotels

Btw I haven’t done this myself because I don’t eat lunch if I’ve had a cooked breakfast but have never frowned upon anyone else. Their business not mine.

LauraNorderr

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If anyone clutches their pearls just smile sweetly while inwardly hoping they choke themselves with them

NotAGran55

Never.

For those who feel it is OK to take from the buffet, why don’t you ask before you do it? You probably know what the answer would be!

My in-laws always used to ask and were told it was fine. In fact, a few places actually used to give my MiL bags or foil to wrap stuff up in.

At the hotel where we stayed in Italy, we ate fruit and the cooked breakfast.
I didn’t see anyone secreting extra food into bags, but several guests ate the cooked breakfast then put a croissants or cakes and an apple on a plate and took it up to their room, together with a coffee or tea. The staff didn’t seem to mind.
At the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, lots of visitors loaded up at breakfast including the man who took a clutch of boiled eggs!

I wouldn't do it, and I think I'd frown at anyone I saw doing it! Usually, when we stay in a hotel, there is a fruit bowl at the end of the breakfast buffet, and I think it's OK to take an apple or a banana for later, like Calendargirl said. But bread, cheese, pastries, no!

Never.

For those who feel it is OK to take from the buffet, why don’t you ask before you do it? You probably know what the answer would be!

You are paying for the complete breakfast Jane. Some like to eat their pastries and fruit before the cooked breakfast, you like to eat yours after. albeit a little while after.
Take a sandwich bag as suggested and enjoy a light lunch. Not a free lunch as you paid for a complete breakfast.
Do it openly, you’re not stealing.
Have a lovely holiday.

ixion

Cringe.

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Hmm, it’s difficult.

DH and I certainly make the most of everything on offer, but no, we don’t take anything away with us. We feel if we have eaten well at breakfast, it should tide us over to dinner time. The trouble is, at home we eat our ‘evening’ meal early, whereas the hotels usually serve it at 7 pm at the earliest, which is late for us. So we are often hungry by about tea time.

Yes, some hotels have notices up saying no food to be taken away. I can understand the odd piece of fruit, say a banana or apple popped in a bag, but some folk are just plain greedy and tight.

Plus we never waste anything. The amount of food left on plates because it’s ‘free’ is shocking.

Having said all that, of course, you could eat your way through everything on the breakfast menu if you so choose…..

Cringe.

I think it's a real no-no.

If you're paying for the continental and the cooked breakfast, but only eating the cooked, then you aren't stealing. You're simply taking what you've paid for to eat later.

Personally however, I would find it a bit of an undignified hassle and you're always going to feel like a naughty school girl waiting to get caught any minute.

If you find a friendly server, why not ask them if you can take your continental choice to your room?

Good point.. I'll try it when next on holiday...
I'll have to take a bigger handbag then...

henetha

I noticed people doing this when I was on holiday in May.
I certainly wouldn't do it, - wouldn't want soggy food in my handbag, but I suppose as it's paid for.... maybe it's ok.
Or is it stealing? Mixed feelings about this.

Why would it be soggy ? A nice croissant kept fresh in a sandwich bag and an apple ..... how can they be soggy ?

I have mixed feelings too, it’s why I asked

I do it all the time ...couple of pastries and some fruit ....sees me thru then til evening meal

I certainly don’t think it’s an issue!

Lots of the leftovers are simply thrown away.

Go for it!

I noticed people doing this when I was on holiday in May.
I certainly wouldn't do it, - wouldn't want soggy food in my handbag, but I suppose as it's paid for.... maybe it's ok.
Or is it stealing? Mixed feelings about this.

I know that a lot of folk do hide food from breakfasts in their bags to eat later. I'm afraid I very much disapprove. The breakfast food is available to eat as much as folk want at the time and I consider it stealing to take extra for later. At some hotels there are signs asking people not to take food away with them. If it made no difference to the hotel, they'd provide extra bags for people to make use of.

I would say it's fine, as you're paying for it anyway - and I've certainly seen people doing it before in various hotels. My in-laws used to do it all the time.