Settle this debate: PJs in hotel breakfast area

[Anonymous]

I usually sleep in yoga pants and a loose t-shirt. If it’s good enough for walking around DTSS, it’s good enough for the breakfast buffet. That said, I’m AA and super conscious that for some people, my very presence as a paying customer rather than a service worker or trespasser is incomprehensible. So I shower and change into something with more structure in the hopes of not being harassed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PJs and hair curlers. Might as well go full trailer park.

Don't forget a cig dangling out of your mouth

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Happening across threads like this makes me aware that I must regularly horrify DC residents. Not that I mind, just interesting to note.

Happening across threads like this makes me happy that I must regularly horrify DC residents. If you pitch a fit over what other people wear to eat powdered eggs off paper plates you're a histrionic drama queen who needs to learn to mind your own business and I hope you're always horrified and uncomfortable everywhere you go, because you deserve it for being such a pearl-clutching moron.

Sometimes I do wear pearls to the free breakfast.

[Anonymous]

White trash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I usually sleep in yoga pants and a loose t-shirt. If it’s good enough for walking around DTSS, it’s good enough for the breakfast buffet. That said, I’m AA and super conscious that for some people, my very presence as a paying customer rather than a service worker or trespasser is incomprehensible. So I shower and change into something with more structure in the hopes of not being harassed.

My mom, who is an old white lady in her 90s and not particularly woke, noted to me about 30 years ago that she felt bad that her African-American neighbors always had to get dressed up just to go to the grocery store and how she always noticed how nice they looked. I was surprised she had noticed this aspect of her white privilege decades before most people were really talking about that. I’m really sorry you feel like you still need to shower and change into something nice just to get a stale bagel from the hotel lobby.

On a funny note, my mom also totally noticed the white ladies in curlers at the grocery store and was always totally horrified by them. She’d say “Where do they have to go tonight that’s so important that they are willing to let the whole town see them in curlers?” She would also not be a big fan of PJ at hotel breakfast but she’s seen me on my yoga pants and tee-shirts at hotel breakfast multiple times and even she wasn’t too scandalized.

[Anonymous]

Slobby. I see it and I judge it.

High overlap with the inconsiderate/self-obsessed and also those having a minivan/SUV full of junk/trash. Just people not coping with life and so just prioritizing comfort like an animal would. Tell your husband to get it together before slide in standards continues. One entitled princess came down to hotel breakfast still wrapped in duvet at crack of 9.45 until hotel staff politely told her to GTFO.

Don't let kids blast their iPad cartoons without headphones in breakfast area either. Nobody but your kid wants to hear that.

[Anonymous]

Your husband is white

[Anonymous]

I absolutely will walk over to get some coffee in my pajamas. Which, I may add, are a nice attire. Or to the front desk late if I need something and have already changed into them. The hotel occupies a middle ground between home and a public place. Its not my own home but its kind of "a" home for the moment.
Nobody's ever indicated anything like it was any kind of issue. One other person wearing pajamas complimented mine, which in fact were a gift. If you want to judge me, take notes and write down your judgments, and leave an envelope on my tombstone because I dont care what you think.

[Anonymous]

Clear that you don't care what others think. That's why you feel comfortable walking around in your PJs like a child.

[Anonymous]

If I’m staying in a Hampton Inn or something at that level, I really don’t care. We’ve gone down in our PJs before, and we all wear tshirts and leggings or sweatpants to bed. I’m not about to get uppity in a freakin Hampton Inn!

[Anonymous]

Wearing pajamas outside the hotel room is trashy.

[Anonymous]

I hate the word PJs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband think it’s perfectly fine for the kids/even for him to go to the hotel breakfast area in PJs. I think it’s rude and trashy, and insist that we all are showered and dressed before going down there. Most of the breakfasts don’t end until 10, and we’re usually up and ready by 8:30 at the latest, so what’s the difference to just wait a few minutes before being presentable. We don’t stay at super-nice places, but even just at a Hampton Inn, people are at least wearing…clothes, right?

If your kids are really little, it might be okay for them to wear pajamas. It is definitely not okay for DH to wear pajamas to breakfast. Hampton Inn is at the top of our price range, FWIW. It would gross me out if a man showed up for breakfast in pajamas.

[Anonymous]

I think it's a bit gross (especially for kids who drool at night) but I'm European and I have a feeling my American husband wouldn't even notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband think it’s perfectly fine for the kids/even for him to go to the hotel breakfast area in PJs. I think it’s rude and trashy, and insist that we all are showered and dressed before going down there. Most of the breakfasts don’t end until 10, and we’re usually up and ready by 8:30 at the latest, so what’s the difference to just wait a few minutes before being presentable. We don’t stay at super-nice places, but even just at a Hampton Inn, people are at least wearing…clothes, right?

If your kids are really little, it might be okay for them to wear pajamas. It is definitely not okay for DH to wear pajamas to breakfast. Hampton Inn is at the top of our price range, FWIW. It would gross me out if a man showed up for breakfast in pajamas.

+1
I stay in very nice hotels all over the world for work and don't understand why a Hampton Inn is any different regarding OP's question. Sure, there is no gourmet quail omelette station but it's clean and functional, which is not how I'd describe pajamas at breakfast.