If you’re not maniacally ripping every minute of theoretical fun out of your vacation with an insane timetable that begins at 0500, you’re probably rich enough that your dietician has you fasting intermittently.
Or you’re rich enough to afford breakfast from anywhere you want.
Hotel breakfasts tend to be more expensive than eating out.
Or they’re free.
Also there’s a linux distro in development names Aux you know!
Why do you need a dietician to run an IF protocol?
You will not find that I have said so. Hope this message finds you comfortably hungover and ten-fingered this Roswell Day
If you have to ask, then you’re one of those … Poor People ™. 🧐
I am thinking about it the other way around. Most people consider vacations as a chance to get rest, because they are working starting 5 in the morning for the rest of the year.
That’s the conundrum - for many people anything that follows a timetable is not fun per definition.
I love how they call it a continental breakfast like it’s supposed to be fancy but everybody on earth actually wants an English breakfast
Please speak for yourself. If I had to eat an English breakfast before 6pm that’d be a lost day for me. Because that’s dinner food.
they call it a continental breakfast like it’s supposed to be fancy
They call it continental because it’s in the style of what is served on the (European) continent.
Almost every half-decent hotel I’ve stayed in on the continent has a self-service mix of both. The breads, hams and cheeses of a continental but also heated cloches of eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns etc. Also it’s served from about 7.30 to 10.30
If they sell you a shit breakfast, leave a one-star review and make a difference. Instead of rolling over and having your belly tickled by capitalism like the yanks do
Some shocking breakfasts in this thread but more shocking that some people just shrug and go “It is what it is”
It was styled on what Americans imagined European breakfasts to be like in the 50s, and cost optimized over subsequent decades.
The breads, hams and cheeses of a continental but also heated cloches of eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns etc. Also it’s served from about 7.30 to 10.30
And all of them stale because they keep changing them out for a week. The biggest thing missing is most european hotels don’t have waffle makers- or if they do they’re missing syrup. One hotel I stayed at put the syrup next to their stale pancakes, and nutella next to the waffle maker- they had it very backwards.
You clearly stayed in shit hotels, mate. I wouldn’t stay anywhere that had anything stale on a breakfast table and I’d throw a fuckin wobbly at anyone that tried to serve me stale food.
Did you just roll over like a good puppy and eat it anyway?
You clearly stayed in shit hotels, mate.
I’ve stayed in a lot of different hotels, sometimes the best in the city. Sometimes just meh.
Did you just roll over like a good puppy and eat it anyway?
Yes
Who’s a Good Consumer?
what I mean to say is, I think they choose a continental breakfast because it sounds fancy and is cheap. not that they made up the word Continental for it
Most hotels outside the US and Canada actually do a legit good breakfast. Not this cheap carb garbage they do in the States.
I was given a piece of toast and an orange when I went to a hotel breakfast in the UK. In Germany, I think they laughed at me when I asked if breakfast was included.
dude, refrigerators aren’t included when you rent apartments in Germany.
Neither are wardrobes and beds, so be aware
Most hotels outside the US and Canada actually do a legit good breakfast.
I really think you have this backwards- at least in my experience. I wonder if you’re just staying in nicer hotels when you’re on vacation.
I love it when the breakfast is hot water and instant oatmeal
That’s honestly better than most continental breakfasts.
Im allowed to be lazy everyday if i want
We’ve let morning neurotypicals rule over us for too long!!
It is time to rebel & rebuilt!
(But a bit later, it’s like 9am here)Rebel now. Rebuild … ah, let’s rebel first and then take a nap or have a snack. The rubble will be needing to be rebuild tomorrow still.
No, we rebuild when normies are sleeping so when they wake up everything is already different, scheduled changed, work hours flexible, any reference to time before noon punishable.
Meeting scheduled before 9? Instant kick to the balls. Meeting scheduled during lunch? Believe it or not, that’s a paddling. I mean kick to the balls.
Padding-style kicks to the balls.
I honestly aggree. I arranged my shit quite well, started working late, worked till it’s late. It is how I like it, I get really productive at ~15:00 till ~19:00. Now my children go to school (therefore I have to get up early) and they banned working after 18:00 at my company (thanks labour union, I get what you wanted to do, but you screwed me). My productivity dropped so much it stresses me out and I am constantly tired, because I don’t sleep enough.
Same - I’ve basically forced my employer to de facto let me work whenever I want.
I mean, they just like the output they get and with literally no drawbacks, so it’s especially shitty knowing that I’ve basically been fighting some … traditions?
Its literally just full on discrimination (as classification I mean), it’s just too much of a dispersed problem to gain attention & we are all brainwashed (starring late is considered lazy yet finishing early isn’t).
We shall begin the revolution at the crack of noon!
*Groans* Noon?
That’s so early!
Noon? That’s when I eat breakfast! Can we do 5 pm?
The worst breakfast I ever had was at a Courtyard Marriott that was under renovation. Since then, I made a policy to find the best local breakfast diner any place I went, even if the hotel breakfast was included.
Haven’t regretted it once.
That was how I learned Boston has no good breakfast spots.
Also the hotel only served breakfast on certain days of the week? What the fuck is that about. But they gave me a free glass of wine when I got back to the hotel one night.
Its still weird to me how English breakfast is (that much of) a thing.
Like a couple of centuries ago for the difference in the sheer standard of living, sure, maybe at that point it was luxurious in terms of ingredients alone, … but still?
It’s because the alternative is “continental breakfast” which consists of a few slices of warm ham, tiny slices of bread and a bunch of fruit that’s already on the turn.
I guess it was named so during the early 40s.
That’s why I’m sticking with alpine/Austrian breakfast: Real bread (Google “Schwarzbrot”), real cereals (a mix of oats, dried fruits and nuts, with hot milk) or Sterz (a breakfast made from ground maize, couldn’t find a translation) with apples and raisins. Depends on how much time I have and what I’m doing on that day (before a long hike or a long day of skiing Sterz is the best).
Real bread (Google “Schwarzbrot”), real cereals
Way to gatekeep. 🙄
Sometimes, it’s good to gatekeep. @pumpkinseedoil is correct on this one
Not even one bit. Fluffy bread is superior in every way in my opinion. And eating raw oats is just nasty.
Sterz
I think Polenta is internationally more well known. Sterz is similar to Polenta.
Good point. They’re the same, the difference lies in how you continue after cooking it.
English breakfast is like the only decent thing to come out of that place
Which isn’t a high bar, but I agree with you.
Bri’ish food isn’t that bad, I mean the yanks deep fry butter for god sake.
Fried butter is like a novelty fair food over here, it’s not a real dish.
Blood pudding in the UK, on the other hand . . .
Edit: also I’m pretty sure Scotland would deep fry tf out of some butter
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I didn’t say it wasn’t. Fried butter is also delicious. I was just making a comment as to the availability of the dishes in their respective countries.
Blood sausage isn’t just a UK thing, variations are found in pretty much every cuisine that eats meat. And it’s not even like its super popular in the UK, its very often not even included in a full English breakfast.
I mean the yanks deep fry butter for god sake.
Yanks do? If anything that would be more of a southern thing, but I don’t think its a common thing anywhere other than as fair food or something
It even isn’t really a southern thing, its an attention grabber for capital. No one eats or thinks of deep fried butter save for those that go to fairs and get it waved in their face.
Yeah that’s what I figured
You don’t like Fish and Chips?
English food is fine as long as it is not prepared by the English.
You got me fucked up if I’m waking up early on my master approved break from wage slaving. I’m waking up at noon and I’m having a bowl for breakfast.
Bowl of peanut butter crunch.
After ripping a steamroller of course
ripping a steamroller across your favorite shirt.
After getting high of course
high up in the hotel because the club level’s breakfast has an omelette station.
After smoking marijuana of course
The smoked marinara dipping sauce is a regional favorite, complementary offered at all meals to the hotel’s guests.
After inhaling thc vapors purely for recreation of course
The gnc flavors of vitamins go well with a healthy bowl of fresh fruit for your daily nutritional and fiber needs.
After freebasing an eight-ball of crack cocaine of course.
Freeshotting the 8-ball without cracking the pool table cloth.
After smoking a blunt while listening to Bob Marley of course.
I love having breakfast early in the monring in hotels when most people are still asleep. I can take my time, read in peace, no queue for the coffee, etc…
I am the same. I wake up early regardless and my wife and daughter don’t, so I can go downstairs and have breakfast and hang out down there for a while as they sleep and then get them up 20 minutes before they stop serving it.
Why would I spend the time and money on a vacation just to waste it on being lazy? I can do that at home. On vacation I’m up before sunrise, take a shower, and grab breakfast before I start my itinerary for the day.
We have different vacation philosophies. Mornings are nebulous unplanned times for everyone to do what they want like sleeping in, relaxing by the pool, getting brunch at a nice place, and light sight seeing. I usually don’t have scheduled goals/events for the day until afternoons and evenings while on vacation. I can’t enjoy being somewhere new if I’m too burnt out and exhausted to participate and experience it properly.
If I wanted to wake up before my biological clock tells me to and follow a schedule, I could just go to work.
I paid for this uncomfortable hotel mattress, and I’m going to damn well use the fucking thing!
I’m a freelance software dev, you just made me realized I should vacation on a schedule so I have some variety in my life.
You can also maximize your time sleeping in too. Stay out and have fun on the town, head back to the hotel at 3am. Some people are night owls, some people like mornings. Nothing wrong with either.
Personally waking up before sunrise feels awful for my body and brain function, but I get it.
That sounds like work with extra steps.
Because you could spend more of your time in the evening, when there are more things to do in town.
Mornings are boring. Evenings are exciting.
Ok dad
Isn’t it usually like 10am? If you can’t be fucked to get free food that’s on you.
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No hotel anywhere only serves breakfast for one hour. Nice try though.
I really hate to break it to you, but I was at one last summer that had the same hours.
Just because you haven’t experienced it doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Yeah it does though. It’s called lying on the internet which you’re doing.
What a friendly and reasonable response.
Wow! Lying on the Internet is easy!
edit: it’s hard to tell on Fedia which comment I actually ended up replying to, but it was directed at db2 if I messed it up
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The last time I stayed at a hotel, they stopped filling the breakfast bar at like 7 and served whatever was left until 9.
I used to travel for work quite a bit, and that one had one of the more generous breakfast offerings.
Was it a Super8 or Motel 6? I bet it was. No place that offers breakfast and is also worth staying at at any price does that. On the bright side you now know where not to go.
I don’t think Motel 6 or Super 8 serve Continental breakfast.
Continental breakfast is a child size box of cereal, a little carton of milk and a piece of fruit. That’s it. They put it out on a folding table.
When I traveled for work, we mostly used Mariott or Hyatt or occasionally Holiday Inn. Not much choice when you have to stay wherever the company has an account. The one I described above was Mariott.
Depending on the assignment, I often had to work nights, so “just get up earlier” wasn’t really an option.
Your company sent you to some shit hotels then. I think the earliest breakfast end time I’ve been to is 8am, and that one was a bit more expensive than the others. Most hotels I stay at serve breakfast until 10am.
Serve until 10, but do they keep putting out new food until then? The ones I’m used to serve until 9 but don’t put out any new food after 7.
Oh, if that’s what you mean then fair enough. A lot of the places I’ve been to stop cooking at around 8, so 2 hours under heat is fine imo
I’m not the person you are replying to, but my experience has been that they don’t make any new food after ~8AM and most of the good stuff is pilfered before then, so although they serve until 9 or 10, there’s rarely anything left if you arrive close to the end (or anything that you’d want to eat)
Seems like it used to be 10, but everywhere I’ve been in recent years is 11.
10 is late for most of them - 9 is pretty common. If you’re at the kind of vacation place where you’re hanging out and relaxing, maybe staying up late, waking up at 8 so you can get ready and get down to eat breakfast, doesn’t feel like last relaxing, which is OP’s point. Of course people can do it, but a lot of times we want to sleep in on vacation.
The trick is to get food and then go back to sleeping in, but with a full belly
Impossible to fall asleep an hour after waking up.
I wish I could, but once I’m awake enough to be up, that’s it for me.
All the hotels i ever stay in anymore don’t have a restaurant or a bar just bare bones. I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express once and it had a pancake machine
Pancake machine sounds fancy.
Thanks! It’s my nickname!
Holiday Inn Express is the most miserable breakfast I’ve ever had in a hotel. The selection was basically lard with sugar on it, and whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine.
I’m normally not much of a breakfast person, but work had booked me in at HIE once, and as I had a long day ahead I had to force myself to eat something. And the selection available didn’t exactly make it easier.
After that I always make sure to book the hotel myself. I’m not that picky in terms of hotel, as long as the eatery is decent.
Yeah, uh… Don’t know how to say this, but if your water smells like chlorine, I don’t recommend drinking it. Might be ok for survival, but it’s definitely not for regular consumption.
whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine
Well that’s concerning
I never had tap water in the US that didn’t. No wonder why bottled water is so popular there. I’m sure they have better water in more mountainous states, but TX, LA, MS and AL tastes like chlorinated swamp.
Most of my life I’ve lived in places where the tap water comes from natural lakes in nearby mountains, with bird poop as the only additive. I therefore notice the chlorine very easily, to the point where my coworkers claim they don’t notice it at all.
In New Zealand our tap water is mostly okay to good, with the exception of Whanganui. Tap water there has lots of lime (not the fruit) in it so I tend not to drink tap water as a habit, despite living in the south island now which has nice and cold tap water pretty much everywhere. Never heard of chlorine in the tap water around here lol
Does lime have a flavor to it?
It does, not really sure how to describe it other than unpleasant, maybe metallic like. It also leaves residue in boiling jugs that needs to be cleaned periodically.
I like Drury Inns. They do have the standard “breakfast ends at 9:30” thing which sucks for late sleepers, but they also have a 5-7 pm “happy hour” with snacks and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided gratis. It’s a way to avoid paying for dinner if you can do it and you don’t care about your dinner being snacky stuff, but if you’re on vacation, let dinner be snacky stuff.
Pull you in
Maximize profits by minimizing expenditure.
Can’t afford to go anywhere and sleep in a Hotel anyways.
This is why you don’t pay for breakfast (if you have the option), wake up late at your time and go discover a local spot and some food to eat as breakfast/lunch item.
I believe that’s called Brunch in classical English.
Life hack, you are absurdly drunk at 3am asking for French toast and Cheerios. Me 1, Hotel 0
