Breakfasts in hotels

JaneJudge stated in her OP that she and her husband do not eat from the continental selection at breakfast time. They both just have the cooked breakfast.

As their room rate includes the full selection of hot and cold I can’t see a problem in taking a pastry and fruit for later. They would not be depriving anyone else as it’s there for them to eat at breakfast time if they want it.

I hope you have a lovely time JaneJudge and that you enjoy your hotel breakfast 😊

Witzend

I did once go back and nick an apple from a hotel buffet - after we’d just checked out! It was in central Krakow, where we were just going on a horse-drawn tour of the city.
The apple was for the horse.
He enjoyed it!

I see...
Passing on stolen goods, is it?

Eating the evidence.

Oh well if it was for a horse that's fine

ive always done this openly and without a pang of conscience because of the way single people get ripped off in some hotels. Often we pay almost as much as a couple and get the tiny little room overlooking the bins. So anything I can claw back is acceptable by me. At some of the London hotels they get so used to this that they will offer you a container to take it away so I always ask now.

If you have ever stayed in Las Vegas all the hotels have "all you can eat" breakfasts and buffets but they turn a blind eye towards older people taking food away. Some of the diners are so greedy the way they pile up their plates. No wonder they are so fat.

if you wanted to take food from the breakfast buffet outside of the hotel then there was a £10 pp pack lunch charge

This would probably be cheaper than buying lunch in some countries so I would take a plastic container, fill it full and hand them the £10 on the way out.

I'd take a wheelbarrow.

Grannynannywanny

JaneJudge stated in her OP that she and her husband do not eat from the continental selection at breakfast time. They both just have the cooked breakfast.

As their room rate includes the full selection of hot and cold I can’t see a problem in taking a pastry and fruit for later. They would not be depriving anyone else as it’s there for them to eat at breakfast time if they want it.

I hope you have a lovely time JaneJudge and that you enjoy your hotel breakfast 😊

Totally agree.

most hotels will say not to do that but you could ask. to be honest if there are bananas , I usually take one away from the buffet

Some years ago I went on a residential course with the uni. The venue laid on a buffet lunch for us on the final day when we finished at 12 pm. Most of us had taken a couple of sandwiches, or some fruit or cheese for the journey. The last girl to do so got told off by the waitress and was quite upset.

Regardless of whether the remarks were racially motivated the girl was the only ethnic minority in the group.

I reminded the waitress that it was not her place to tell paying delegates what to do. The food had been paid for by our employer and we could take as much or as little as we wished. It was obvious that she had hoped to filch some for herrelf once we had left. She could at least have had the good manners to wait until our backs were turned.

I did complian to the management as I was leaving. As the uni held many residential courses at that venue, one would assume the complaint would be taken seriously.

I’m another who rarely wants anything until about 11 am when at home. But if we’re in a hotel, where there’s a very nice breakfast that someone else has cooked, I’ll have whatever fruit there is, and a Full English (except the egg - I’m fussy about eggs) with toast and marmalade too. 😋

This thread has made me feel like Alan Partridge and his big plate

JaneJudge

This thread has made me feel like Alan Partridge and his big plate

😂

The plates at a Las Vegas buffet are like trays!

Doing so surreptitiously is theft (doing it slyly tells you people know it is). Keep your dignity and ask for a luchtime picnic pack or sort something else out. Why do poeple do it? Unable to pay? Feel the hotel is rooking you? Difficult to find lunchtime food? I think Disney is priced to take account of the fact they are providing all day food.

It's not theft.

You've paid for breakfast and some people will eat three times as much as others. Cereal, fruit juice, massive cooked breakfast then toast and/pastries plus coffee/tea. It's unbelievable what some people can put away.

If you put a croissant and a piece of fruit on your plate then can't eat them just say "ooh, eyes bigger than tummy, waste not want not", wrap it in napkin and save for later. You can't put it back, that's bad manners.
It's also wrong to waste food.

We go to a hotel in Austria at the breakfast buffet there is a sign encouraging people to take food to get you through the day along with little bags.

I have never noticed folks abusing their hospitality.

I asked for a doggy bag at a restaurant because the meal was far too large, there was far too much ham.
They happily brought a plastic box, they must be used to it.

Callistemon213

I asked for a doggy bag at a restaurant because the meal was far too large, there was far too much ham.
They happily brought a plastic box, they must be used to it.

Agreed.

If I am forced into a restaurant, rare as I don't prefer to eat away from home, I always get a box containing 2/3 of my order. Our normal is boxes.

Restaurants are prepared to serve ones leftovers into a box. If they weren't, boxes would exist on their back room shelving.

GrannyGravy13

We go to a hotel in Austria at the breakfast buffet there is a sign encouraging people to take food to get you through the day along with little bags.

I have never noticed folks abusing their hospitality.

Agreed.

Our ski resort of choice, Austrian, seems to wish for well fed skiers. Bread, butter, cheese, fruit suits our grandchildren well through a ski day.

Did this once many years ago, in Turkey- in my 20s. I ran out of money (long before plastic) I made a sandwich- baguette actually, cheese & ham, to take to the airport- glad I did as we had a ten hour delay. My friends laughed at me at the time, but I had the last laugh as they ended up starving 😁

Callistemon213

I asked for a doggy bag at a restaurant because the meal was far too large, there was far too much ham.
They happily brought a plastic box, they must be used to it.

They do at my favourite restaurant too, because we’ve paid for it in the same way as we pay for breakfast in a hotel.
Maybe what people should do is load their breakfast plates with everything on offer that they think they might eat, and which they’ve paid for.
That way, they could take it away just like with a doggy bag.
The only exclusions to that IMO would be in some English hotels, where you select full English or continental with a considerable difference in price.

I've actually checked. In hotel prices cover continental AND cooked
Non residents option is either continental or cooked or a higher price for both

so I think I wasn't being cheeky to think I could have two small pastries or some bread/cheese + fruit BUT I've decided not to do it anyway and as I've said, we have never done it before either

thank you for everyone's input

Only cheapskates do this IMO. 🤣

There are usually signs up asking people to refrain from taking food out of the restaurant. Why would you even want to pinch a banana or a croissant when you can afford to stay somewhere nice?

It is funny though watching people trying to secrete food from their table. Some hide it under a napkin then wait until they think nobody is watching. Others bring in a big beach bag which they leave on the floor and drop things in to. I have even seen people trying to hide stuff in a rolled up newspaper.

I did a summer season working in a hotel and we used to call people who did this “skinners”.

JaneJudge

I've actually checked. In hotel prices cover continental AND cooked
Non residents option is either continental or cooked or a higher price for both

so I think I wasn't being cheeky to think I could have two small pastries or some bread/cheese + fruit BUT I've decided not to do it anyway and as I've said, we have never done it before either

thank you for everyone's input

Dong forget to bag a bog roll on departure too 😁