Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

Really?

I'm not sure he actually has any, since that's the least masculine thing I've ever heard.

@Cangar @AnnieMcFanny This is exactly the reason why breakfast is no longer included in the price of the hotels at Disneyland Paris. So it now costs even more money and there are extra staff in the hotel breakfast buffets watching out for this.

IMO taking stuff for later is rude. I have a 3 year old DS so occasionally if he’s picked a piece of fruit/pastry/muffin etc that he doesn’t eat but is already on his plate then I’ll maybe take it for later. But I wouldn’t take food with the intention of saving it for later.

No.
I unfortunately (prior to treatment), used to get very unwell between about 20-45 minutes after breakfast.
I used to go into hotels to use the facilities - because I have (a now diagnosed) serious bowel condition. This would take some time.
My DH was a bit CF and used to inveigle his way into the hotel breakfast room.

@OfficerChurlish we experienced this in the USA with Marriott in New Jersey with a band and they actually wrote a song and named an album about it called 'the unauthorised breakfast item'

With sandwiches you didn’t pay for.

It’s really scratchy to do this.

I used to travel for work public sector and our entire food and drink budget for a 24 hour period was £20.40 , (this was only about 5 years ago) we had hotel breakfast and were often away Monday to Friday, lunch was basically whatever we took from the buffet so we had some money left for a soft drink or coffee during the day while working (not provided anything other than tap water) and enough to pay for a dinner that wasn't a McDonald's. I would take fruit, a yoghurt, a roll, maybe some cheese or something spreadable, sometimes a pastry and we'd always fill up our travel mugs with coffee before leaving. I would usually have fruit and yogurt, or porridge or a boiled egg and toast for breakfast itself and the breakfast was charged at about £14 so I didn't think I was being cheeky.

I might pinch an apple or muffin for a snack but not a full on lunch and would feel a bit guilty

I would take the jam outs but because they are handy at work

Iv never done it but as someone who doesn’t eat meat and hates most components of a cooked breakfast if the continental bit is crap iv found myself having only a couple of slices of toast and maybe a mini croissant for breakfast I do sometimes think I should take some stuff to make it feel like iv got my money’s worth!

When I was a rep, I'd actively encourage people to make themselves a packed lunch from the breakfast buffet, esp those who I knew were on a tight budget. Hell, I'd even give them ideas, and when I was in the 4* flagship hotel, the receptionists would join in and give people sandwich ideas 😂 no one cares, a lot of the food would just be wasted anyway.

It depends on the hotel and what their policy is. We stayed at a nice chain one with work earlier this year and they came
round and offered boxes to take some snacks for later away with us. Hotel in the same chain we stayed at regularly I would go back to my room to find a plate with small cakes or fresh fruit and a note saying to enjoy my stay/to let them know if I needed any of the various services every couple of days. They were always offering takeaway cups for a coffee to go at end of breakfast.
If people are openly packing up stuff for later/being handed containers by the staff it’s clearly fine. If they are sneaking stuff into bags under the table it’s probably not really but I can’t get overly worked up about it.

At an all inclusive hotel in Turkey a couple filled a rucksack at breakfast with many made up rolls, apples, bananas, cakes and pastries etc. The staff stopped them on the way out and made them take it all out. It was pure greed, there’s no need for it at all.
If you eat a good breakfast there’s no need to fill right up again at lunch, just buy a sandwich if you’re outside the hotel.

i remember in butlins families take masses.
shocking

Excuse me what?! This is definitely getting saved for a glum spell.

I was in Dubai (work) and the person in front just emptied bowls of olives etc on her plate. Extremely expensive hotel, but so what, they didn’t eat any of it in the end.

B&M usually sell them for about 30p a jar just in case you're ever particularly unhappy 😂

I watched on in awe once, whilst a woman made a pack lunch for eight people from the breakfast buffet, she was shouting across the room and asking if they wanted ham, cheese or ham and cheese ? which fruit ? and which pastry ?
I felt guilty letting DS take a nutella sachet !

I'm sure there are people who happily take Tupperware and make a picnic 😂

I'm GF so will snaffle a packet of precooked biscuits from breakfast to take to my room to have with my afternoon tea! However ds and I stay at this hotel a few times a year, we know the lady who works in the hospitality there and she said to do it as they don't provide GF biscuits in the room - they do provide loads of normal ones!

Other than that a piece of fruit or muffin for ds as a snack. We stay there because he's competing.

I was totally shocked last year in Italy to see the plates piled high with food at breakfast and then left. The amount of food discarded on a daily basis was obscene and of course attracted pigeons and sometimes seagulls onto the tables. Parents would allow children to take endless food and weren’t at all concerned about most of it being left.

Same. Id take a piece of fruit. Not a full pack up though 🤣.

Oh, for what it's worth - I stayed in a hotel about a year ago in the USA (It was the Wyndham Baymont Houston North near IAH, if anyone cares) where there were signs on the free breakfast buffet telling guests that taking any food from the buffet out of the designated meal area would result in a fine at checkout time and/or the possibility of the deposit not being returned.

I’d do it, not sandwiches but a muffin and a banana. Not a big breakfast fan so I’d just have a coffee at breakfast and then my pilfered brunch for elevenses.

It was quite nice during covid as lots of hotels did to go bags with granola/ yoghurt, pastry, fruit and coffee. Perfect for me😁

I take little Nutella sachets and an occasional mini box of Cocoa Pops for DS when I'm away with work - I only have a yoghurt or fruit for breakfast (I'm away too often to have a fry up) and I don't hide it. I've never been asked not to!