Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

110% 😂

Yeah I know. A pp wrote how she brought her tuppaware to the hotel breakfast..

It's funny how people think it's more acceptable to take out fruit which could last a few days and be put out the next morning, versus perishable items like rolls and cheese which are presumably binned after service.

I took teen dd to an all day sporting event, we had a nice big breakfast and each took a piece of fruit out with us in our hand and popped a mini muffin in our bag.
I wouldn't make up sandwiches!

It depends. If, for some reason, I hadn't managed to eat breakfast before I headed out for the day or if I had only had a tea/coffee, then yes, I might grab a few things to take away for later. But not if I've already eaten.

This is not what normal people do

Cheeky beyond belief.

This is what normal people do. Not MNers though who are outraged at such lower class practices. 🤣

At a few hotels in France I have stayed in they put out the leftover pastries at reception, which I think is a nice idea as I don't often fancy a mini pain au chocolat at breakfast, but it's sometimes a nice afternoon snack after a day of skiing in winter or hill walking in summer.

I just don't understand this argument.

If you don't want a buffet breakfast then don't pay for a buffet. Go elsewhere and buy a coffee.

This ! I like to have a cup of coffee in the morning and eat a couple of hours later.
I've been to a couple of hotels where there's no in room coffee option and no café so you have to pay for breakfast in order to get a coffee ! I'll therefore take a yoghurt and pastry or something like that to eat later. I don't want to pay twice for something

It can be a bit tricky, I find the sausages tend to roll off the plate unless it is held flat (and then it is more likely to be spotted by staff), bacon, if crispy can be slipped into the breast pocket of a jacket or if flexible, wrapped around each wrist like a watch strap. Baked beans - you just have to leave these. Black pudding and hash browns, under a baseball cap. Toast/fried bread (cut in half NOT triangles) in trouser pockets.
The outfit of choice is one of those 'fishing jackets' as they are positively smothered in individual pockets.

I mean my 8 year old loved it! But yes wouldn’t be my first choice. I felt like they were trying to squeeze every last euro out of me. They’ve just changed the dining rules again and now you don’t even get a soft drink with meals under the (expensive!) dining plans.

I did not witness the carnage others describe (people were definitely making themselves lunch but there was never a shortage of food nor was it ever difficult to access) but was at the most expensive hotel and it was February. Maybe worse in summer.

Unacceptable. Hotels cater for x amount of people having breakfast.

That can easily leave some guests without some of the breakfast items or none at all.

By all means go last and take what is left 2 min before end, anything else is greedy and selfish.

It would have been specifically baked into their pricing. I've stayed in a lot of Austrian hotels and they're either the way you describe, or they are very strictly the other way that if you're caught taking from the buffet, they'll add €20 pp (or whatever) to your bill. They'll all happily give you materials to make a packed lunch, it's just that some will make an explicit charge for it.

I take 2 mini Nutellas if they have them as a present for my kids.TBF I don't eat full english so I've usually paid the hotel £10 for a croissant banana and coffee.Bit I still would even if I did.

@HunterHearstHelmsley if you haven’t seen a melee at a Disney hotel breakfast when people have their own containers to fill with food to top up on throughout the day you haven’t lived. 🙈

I'll sometimes grab a muffin, yoghurt and a banana. Only when I'm not in the mood for breakfast so I'm not actually taking more.

Everything I hear about Disneyland Paris makes it sound a bloody miserable holiday 😄

Over the years Ive had some lovely times there with my son who’s severely autistic. He’s 33 now and still asks to go but declining health means he can no longer travel.

But that said - it’s great breakfasts are no longer included in a hotel stay because the melees I witnessed at breakfasts the last time we were there were disgraceful. You couldn’t even get near the buffet the throng were so feral and people who had decided to stand back and let them get on with it had to ask staff for help getting breakfast.

We stayed at an airport hotel recently and watched a pilot make 3 or 4 baguettes with scrambled egg, spinach, sausages and bacon from the buffet. No shame involved, was very open about it.

We were inspired to do the same and had a lovely bacon butty on the plane a few hours later. Much nicer (and cheaper) than the Tui offerings!

@Meanwhile33

not everyone else was doing it and even if they were why would you want to be like them.

Everything I hear about Disneyland Paris makes it sound a bloody miserable holiday 😄

I stayed in a hotel in Disneyland Paris with breakfast included. Everyone was making sandwiches for lunch!!

Of course not! You have paid for breakfast. You haven’t paid for as many meals as you could carry away. Can you imagine trying to fill takeout containers from an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet? Wow.

I might possibly grab a piece of fruit, but sandwiches is absolutely CFery.

I’m staying at the Hilton in Bristol next week (it was cheaper than premier inn I promise…) and they have always provided waxed containers and tubs, little card lunchboxes and paper bags to take fruit, yogurt etc - and I will happily help myself to a few things to nibble on as I sightsee and make up a travel cup of tea. They actively encourage it so I happily oblige. If they didn’t I think I’d still take a pastry or two to scoff as I set off into town.