Hotel room snacks?

[Anonymous]

Whenever we take a road trip, we usually end up at a rental where we then go shopping for food/snacks, and where the majority of our eating will be at the rental.

When we stay at hotels, we usually fly in, and all of our meals are eaten offsite, and any snacking is done offsite as well. That could be grabbing ice cream, ordering an appetizer by the pool, ordering desert after dinner, etc.

This time we are driving to a suite at a hotel at the beach, and I feel like we should be packing snacks since we will have a kitchenette and small dining table, plus separate living room area. Things like chips and salsa, etc. The thing is, I don’t know that we will spend any more time in this hotel room than we would spend in a typical hotel room. I also don’t think we won’t treat eating similarly to how we would in a hotel (every meal, snacks included, eaten offsite.)

What do you do in these instances? I hate to shop for, pack, and take up room for nothing.

[Anonymous]

We bring a case of bottled water, bananas and apples, mixed nuts, and some snacks easily toted to the beach (chips, cookies, etc).

We sometimes bring takeout to the beach for lunch (pizza, subs, tacos). We bring in bagels/donuts for breakfast (or fruit/yogurt).

[Anonymous]

For beach I bring some salty snacks like chips, pretzels etc. I always like to have fruit to eat because it’s harder to get when eating out. And maybe some soda, juice or seltzer water if your kids will fuss that the tap water tastes different.

We often do two dinners cooked in and maybe a couple lunches so I’ll get:
Pasta, raps sauces
Hamburger meat, rolls, ketchup, salad bag
Tortillas, cheese, beans
Rolls and deli meat
That covers like 4 meals so we don’t have to eat everything out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever we take a road trip, we usually end up at a rental where we then go shopping for food/snacks, and where the majority of our eating will be at the rental.

When we stay at hotels, we usually fly in, and all of our meals are eaten offsite, and any snacking is done offsite as well. That could be grabbing ice cream, ordering an appetizer by the pool, ordering desert after dinner, etc.

This time we are driving to a suite at a hotel at the beach, and I feel like we should be packing snacks since we will have a kitchenette and small dining table, plus separate living room area. Things like chips and salsa, etc. The thing is, I don’t know that we will spend any more time in this hotel room than we would spend in a typical hotel room. I also don’t think we won’t treat eating similarly to how we would in a hotel (every meal, snacks included, eaten offsite.)

What do you do in these instances? I hate to shop for, pack, and take up room for nothing.

This is a really long post about having non-perishables in your personal vehicle after departing your home.

Do it or don't. Does EVERYTHING need to be crowd sourced?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whenever we take a road trip, we usually end up at a rental where we then go shopping for food/snacks, and where the majority of our eating will be at the rental.

When we stay at hotels, we usually fly in, and all of our meals are eaten offsite, and any snacking is done offsite as well. That could be grabbing ice cream, ordering an appetizer by the pool, ordering desert after dinner, etc.

This time we are driving to a suite at a hotel at the beach, and I feel like we should be packing snacks since we will have a kitchenette and small dining table, plus separate living room area. Things like chips and salsa, etc. The thing is, I don’t know that we will spend any more time in this hotel room than we would spend in a typical hotel room. I also don’t think we won’t treat eating similarly to how we would in a hotel (every meal, snacks included, eaten offsite.)

What do you do in these instances? I hate to shop for, pack, and take up room for nothing.

This is a really long post about having non-perishables in your personal vehicle after departing your home.

Do it or don't. Does EVERYTHING need to be crowd sourced?

And yet two other people above you gave helpful responses. I was thinking out loud and that’s ok. Have a good one!

[Anonymous]

I hadn’t even thought about bringing drinks, but this makes more sense than snacks. Thanks, PPs! I’ll definitely grab bottled water and some sodas.

[Anonymous]

We like to get Airbnb and end up doing instacart timed for our arrival

[Anonymous]

I do a lot of multi-night hotel stays with my teen for soccer. We bring a case of bottled water for the room, granola bars and larabars. When we arrive we also go the grocery store to grab bananas and yogurt to keep in the fridge. We find this offers enough variety for snacking/grab and go breakfast.

[Anonymous]

I always have PB&J stuff.

[Anonymous]

My kids are always starving at the beach, so having snacks handy is really helpful. It's nice to not have to go out for everything.

[Anonymous]

We usually have leftover snacks from the car. If we want more we pick up more. I don't think you have to decide in advance unless you are going to get far from any stores

[Anonymous]

We don’t snack. We’re not obese

[Anonymous]

I take a roll of Maria cookies for taking medication which must be eaten with food. The roll lasts for ages and if we're driving for a while before eating, a couple of those keep us going.