I was on a business trip to a hotel in Thailand with an included breakfast buffet. It was sumptuous, with local, Western, Chinese, and Indian offerings. I think I gained 5 pounds that week and it was all due to breakfast!

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Anonymous wrote:I mean sure if you are on corporate travel with expenses where time is more valuable, but it’s Thanksgiving and people are still lining up for watery eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvVhKHqlgI

My inlaws are worth $20M and would still balk at that. Most people don't get to be rich by being money wasters.

they are cheap. I wouldn't consider eating wasting money. You need to eat. If you are at a resort, they typically don't have too many options. The last resort I went to, the buffet was $50, it was $25 at a holiday inn recently. When you are vacation, you just have to not care about stuff like that.

They eat very well. They just don't overpay for medicore hotel buffets.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

I literally can’t do my job if I’m business traveling and there’s no protein at breakfast. I’ll leave to go find some. A muffin for breakfast would mean I would be so cranky by 10am.

We routinely stay at a variety of Hampton Inns and Holiday Inn Expresses and they both routinely have eggs and either bacon or sausage, replenished often. They also both have hard boiled eggs in the refridgerator.

Hampton Inn is our go to hotel for roadtrips, hard pass on their bacon and sausage. It’s more like mystery meat to me, and the powdered eggs are pretty bad too. I love a hot breakfast, but at Hamptons, I stick to the safer breakfast items- cereal, muffins, fruit…etc.

That's cool. I don't mind it and I was specifically talking to PP who said she needed protein. They have several options.

Also to the Hilton Honors poster, at domestic Hiltons breakfast is no longer included with Gold or Platinum. Its a $16-18 food credit per day depending on the market (x2 if you have a second person, but nothing for any further room guests.)

I order pizza for dinner with leftovers in mind to reheat for breakfast the next day - ham and pineapple.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

I literally can’t do my job if I’m business traveling and there’s no protein at breakfast. I’ll leave to go find some. A muffin for breakfast would mean I would be so cranky by 10am.

We routinely stay at a variety of Hampton Inns and Holiday Inn Expresses and they both routinely have eggs and either bacon or sausage, replenished often. They also both have hard boiled eggs in the refridgerator.

Hampton Inn is our go to hotel for roadtrips, hard pass on their bacon and sausage. It’s more like mystery meat to me, and the powdered eggs are pretty bad too. I love a hot breakfast, but at Hamptons, I stick to the safer breakfast items- cereal, muffins, fruit…etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

Ehh, I’d rather find a cool hotel and skip breakfast if I have to.

So often people ask for hotel reccs and then specify Hilton only or something. I get that doesn’t literally mean Hilton only but it still limits you.

For better or worse, I’m all in on Hilton Honors. I have their credit card, which gives me one free night at any Hilton property- this can be a $1000 per night Waldorf Astoria, and in a year I can get about a weeks worth of free nights through credit card spending. Additionally, there is the free breakfast, food and drink credits, sometimes an executive club/lounge- though these are becoming more and more scarce.

I’m not exclusive to Hilton. I will stay at boutique hotels, but if I’m in a chain hotel, which is 80% of the time, it’s a Hilton property.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean sure if you are on corporate travel with expenses where time is more valuable, but it’s Thanksgiving and people are still lining up for watery eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvVhKHqlgI

My inlaws are worth $20M and would still balk at that. Most people don't get to be rich by being money wasters.

they are cheap. I wouldn't consider eating wasting money. You need to eat. If you are at a resort, they typically don't have too many options. The last resort I went to, the buffet was $50, it was $25 at a holiday inn recently. When you are vacation, you just have to not care about stuff like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

I literally can’t do my job if I’m business traveling and there’s no protein at breakfast. I’ll leave to go find some. A muffin for breakfast would mean I would be so cranky by 10am.

I know breakfast is supposed to be your biggest meal of the day, but it’s usually my smallest. I know I’m doing it wrong.

DP. I also need to eat a big protein breakfast. But that doesn’t feel good to your body, then you are *not* doing it wrong.

I would pay $25 for a full hotel buffet breakfast.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

I literally can’t do my job if I’m business traveling and there’s no protein at breakfast. I’ll leave to go find some. A muffin for breakfast would mean I would be so cranky by 10am.

We routinely stay at a variety of Hampton Inns and Holiday Inn Expresses and they both routinely have eggs and either bacon or sausage, replenished often. They also both have hard boiled eggs in the refridgerator.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

I literally can’t do my job if I’m business traveling and there’s no protein at breakfast. I’ll leave to go find some. A muffin for breakfast would mean I would be so cranky by 10am.

I know breakfast is supposed to be your biggest meal of the day, but it’s usually my smallest. I know I’m doing it wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

I literally can’t do my job if I’m business traveling and there’s no protein at breakfast. I’ll leave to go find some. A muffin for breakfast would mean I would be so cranky by 10am.

Whenever we’re staying and eating on the same property I figure the rooms should cost 25% more than they are sold for and the food/bev prices or anything else on the property like an $8 latte are just to make it up on the back end. Presumably because people comparison shop on the room price.

Like I remember we stayed at a hotel recently and they passed a temporary tax with the county to help finance a big historically sensitive renovation that was written to apply only to the hotel and passes directly to the hotel. So it’s just a way to charge more for the rooms without it showing up in the advertised, pre-tax price. Food is the same thing.

So what you should do is a little front end math to try to figure out if the all in cost is okay for you. If it is, you can just turn a blind eye to the prices on specific things because it’s not going to make sense on an item by item basis.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.

Ehh, I’d rather find a cool hotel and skip breakfast if I have to.

So often people ask for hotel reccs and then specify Hilton only or something. I get that doesn’t literally mean Hilton only but it still limits you.

Anonymous wrote:Much better to aim for status and get free breakfast

That’s what we do with Hilton. Hampton Inn and Embassy Suites have free breakfast for everybody- no status required. Hampton’s breakfast isn’t great, but who really needs a big breakfast everyday? Muffin, cereal, or oatmeal and some fruit and coffee is all I need. Embassy Suites, for a free breakfast, is phenomenal.

The nicer Hilton properties don’t have free breakfast. With Gold Status, it’s free. Some of the buffets are amazing, but even though it’s free, you wouldn’t want to eat it everyday….too much food. The buffets overseas all seem to be many steps above U.S. hotels.

To OP, $25 isn’t terrible for a good buffet breakfast. Most of the decent ones are around $35 - $40.