How much are you prepared to pay for Hotel breakfast?

Not more than £10 for a continental, like you we would go out if they were charging silly prices, but usually try to find a hotel where it is included.

That’s a heck of a lot for brekkie but I suppose it may depend on what is on offer. I would hope for smoked salmon, kedgeree, devilled kidneys or kippers at least!
I think the hotel might still make a loss on €30 however if my eldest GS (14) hit the buffet!
Growing fast, well above his mum and nearly up to his 6’ dad, whippet thin but broad shouldered and a keen and active sportsman he posts food down like there’s no tomorrow!

I paid £10 at a Premier Inn recently, a first for me as I usually take fruit etc with me. As I was feeling rather sorry for myself 😁 it was well worth it. Endless full English, fruit salad etc and bottomless coffee pot. Very good value for what it did for me.

I rarely stay in hotels here, but next week I am paying 18 euros in Roscoff for a continental breakfast. In Amsterdam this year we paid 25 euros each for a full breakfast.
Cafés in our town charge around £15 for cooked breakfast.
Have a nice day!

Full Irish breakfast for me in my favourite hotel in the west of Ireland. No extra charge, it’s included in room rate. Delicious grilled bacon and sausages, black and white pudding from the local butcher. Fresh eggs delivered daily from the farm 3 miles away. It’s so tasty 😋

We tend to book hotels on the basis of the breakfast being inclusive, which can mean a higher price. It much depends on where the hotel is located, if it's fairly isolated, then it's easier to have the breakfast there, if sited somewhere where there are plenty of cafes, if the cost of the breakfast separately equated to say £20, we'd probably be inclined to go to a nice cafe instead. I only ever have the fully cooked option when staying in a hotel, my preferred choice at home is Greek yogurt, fruit, sometimes porridge, not the whole bacon and eggs palaver. Last time in Europe we stayed in Seville, cafes aplenty, although the breakfast, as in most European hotels had a varied and plentiful choice on offer.

If staying in a large chain hotel, like Mercure, I think you'd expect to pay around £20.00 but that includes both cooked and continental choices. For a smaller guesthouse I would imagine around £15.00 depending on the area. It's about convenience I suppose. If you take breakfast in the hotel you can easily return to your room to freshen up/clean your teeth afterwards before you set off out for the day.

I always booked a hotel with breakfast included - except in the USA where it is usually separate as a matter of course. If I was paying for a separate breakfast I would be sure to take away plenty of it to cover me for lunch. I am not a foodie so I begrudge spending money on food when I travel.

There was a thread recently about whether it was ethical to take food from the buffet for this purpose. I have always done so and never been questioned. The trick is to put it on your plate first then for health reasons you cannot be asked to return it. Thats what tupperware was made for.

Thanks all- interesting. With Booking, breakfast is sometimes included and sometimes offered as extra.

flappergirl, was in Annecy last weekend and we went across the street for breakfast- 7.50 Euros for croissant, toast and butter/jam, glass of orange juice and coffee. Asked for second coffee and were not charged. Then went back to Hotel across the Canal for teeth and stuff for the day.

The breakfast (full English included) in a 5 star hotel we stayed in recently was £25. For us it was inclusive with the room.

We always had the full cooked breakfast and did not bother with lunch - or even afternoon tea - until dinner in the evening, so it could be said to count as an economy.

IKEA used to do a nice breakfast for 1 euro. Probably costs at least 2 euros now.

Not more than £10.00 for a cooked breakfast, £7.00 for a continental I have a small appetite and don't like to be charged for a breakfast I can't finish.

M0nica

The breakfast (full English included) in a 5 star hotel we stayed in recently was £25. For us it was inclusive with the room.

We always had the full cooked breakfast and did not bother with lunch - or even afternoon tea - until dinner in the evening, so it could be said to count as an economy.

For a full cooked English, I think it is fair.

My question was more related to Continental breakfast.

It depends how much I can fit in my handbag for later.

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I tend to buy my breakfast at the local store. So many places don't do decent fresh fruit and fat free quark or yogurt. If I start the day with a "help yourself" breakfast I eat too much of the wrong thing and it all goes downhill from there!

The pub hotel we’re staying in soon includes it in the room rate, but a full English is £12.50 on the menu.
MrJ is a fan of an Ulster fry Grannynanny!!

MissAdventure

It depends how much I can fit in my handbag for later.

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LOL, ah!

If it is more than £15, I'd say pick a few bits for the day seems fair.

Regular cooked breakfast in IKEA £3.75

... if you can be bothered to drive from your hotel and walk for a mile in a store and then eat in a canteen!

Just had a look... The Ritz:

Continental Breakfast is priced at £46 and English breakfast is £56.

It would have to be an extraordinarily special occasion to pay those prices..

MrJ is a fan of an Ulster fry Grannynanny!!

A very tasty holiday treat Jaxjacky!

Either its included in hotel price or if at an apartment we make our own....if it wasn't in hotel price I wouldn't bother ....just have a nice coffee somewhere then have lunch later

I don't like breakfast so try to book places where it's optional. Sometimes we take instant porridge where you just add boiling water. It's not bad, fills us up and saves money. Yes I'm a cheapskate but don't like paying for something I don't really want.

£25 for a Continental breakfast ????? Blimey.

I don't eat Continental breakfast anyway, always full English for me and the fuller the better, but there's no way I would pay that no matter how nice the hotel. I doubt I would pay that for a full English unless it was a very, very decent breakfast with things like Craster kippers available.

To me that's basically £25 for little more than a pile of sugar - if I really felt I must have a pastry I'd probably just have one later with a coffee.