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[–] athos77@kbin.social 58 points 11 months ago (2 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.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 33 points 11 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.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 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.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

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

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

As someone who almost exclusively eats those shitty muffins: come on, at least they're packaged on their own usually!

[–] Matthew@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

The oddly shriveled sausage ain't too bad.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 11 months ago (2 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!

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course a German would post this.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why would you think I'm German?

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I throw towels. I won't tolerate that sort of silliness. You're not here? I am.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I'm too afraid of confrontation to do that. I wish I could though.

[–] vomitself@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

“continental” “breakfast”

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 15 points 11 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.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

no matter how sad looking, it’s American breakfast

especially if it's sad looking

[–] Lionel@endlesstalk.org 12 points 11 months ago

I can taste the continents already

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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

FREE hotel breakfasts are almost always awful.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

If I'm going to have to pay for breakfast anyway, I might as well go to a restaurant that specializes in breakfast.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dame, where in the world are you staying. Most hotels in my country have good to amazing breakfast and I have never heard about paying for breakfast.

[–] effward@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the US, most "free" (or included) hotel breakfasts range from bad to terrible. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between.

Whereas my experience in Scandinavia was the opposite. Breakfasts were generally included or at least offered, and they ranged from alright to amazing. The only issue I had was that they all seemed to be following the same playbook (more or less). Some more variety would be nice.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That sounds like the Swedish hotels I know, alright to amazing, but mostly the same stuff. Personally I'm perfectly fine with that as I know there is always something I can eat, that is a very comfortable feeling when I'm out and about.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Like the other guy said, this is the US we’re talking about. Please tell us what country you’re from so I can come verify your claim myself.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sweden and you are so welcome.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I'll consider it.

[–] lickmysword@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

At least in America yeah unfortunately

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[–] BeardedSingleMalt@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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@lemmy.world 15 points 11 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.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 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.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 10 points 11 months ago (6 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@lemmy.world 12 points 11 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.

[–] ChewTiger@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk I've never had issues sleeping while traveling, and I don't do it very often.

[–] MadBigote@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm now in my third week of my trip, I've slept in at least six different places, and I've yet to feel comfortable sleeping. There's a feeling of uneasy I can't shake off .

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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The trick is get drunk before sleep. Or sleeping pills

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[–] Anemia@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I havent really experienced that tbh. But unlike (seemingly) most people these days I don't really have issues with falling asleep in general. I fall asleep just fine in hotels. Personally my issue with hotels is that it usually gets quite messy due to the limited space and also I sometimes get a sore back from the too soft beds.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Wrong!!

If you are depressed enough you can sleep anywhere

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I sleep great in hotels, as long as they have good pillows and a comfortable bed.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Image Transcription: Twitter Post


Cullen Crawford, @HelloCullen

HOTELS: this is a place to relax, unwind, and take it easy

ALSO HOTELS: we stop serving breakfast at sunrise

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 11 months ago

I've only had this happen once, and it was at the cheapest, grungiest motel I've ever been in. I don't think I would have wanted their breakfast anyway.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 3 points 11 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.

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