Hotel Biscuits

I travel a lot for work and get unreasonably annoyed at rubbish tea trays and snacks 😁 I stayed in a lovely hotel in Majorca recently and got a free room upgrade that came with not only a Bali bed and swim up pool (shame I only had two hours free time!) but a daily treat of a personalised large profiterole. I fear the tea tray at my premier inn next week won't live up to that!

Currently at a Marriott. Biscoff cookies in the room.

@PollyannaWhittier ooh Tony's choc is a nice touch!

Check in treat at Holiday Inn, Cardiff was Welsh cakes! Far superior to the Doubletree cookie for my tastes.

Stayed in a hotel with a nutella dispenser at the breakfast buffet. My kids were beside themselves with excitement

Lovely room in a pub in Hampshire at the start of the week. Only £50 for the night. The tea tray looked like this. Hot chocolate and oaty biscuits.

Moved on to stay in a super luxury hotel in Bristol. Greeted at check in with a fresh cream Halloween cupcake. Shortbread fingers and Clipper fruit teas on the tea tray. How I managed to get the room for £80 a night I don't know!

A good few years ago (25+) stayed 3 or 4 times in a lovely B&B in a farmhouse in the south west when down for work (sadly now just a house), it was a bit before its time. Not cheap but never advertised, only word of mouth type. Work always booked it well in advance.
The then owners used to leave a lidded jug of fresh milk (from nearby dairy, which likely is also no more) in a dinky fridge and you could ask for more if you ran out, the cups were a decent size and a teapot that poured well (bugbear of mine), good choice of assorted herbal as well as ordinary teas, coffees and hot chocolate, a small tin of assorted home made biscuits with a card listing ingredients - each type was a different shape - again ask for more if run out - the lime & ginger ones were divine. In late summer there was often a bowl of fruit to help yourself - had an orchard to the side of the house, always lovely displays of fresh flowers (she was into flower arranging), a choice of small bottles of sparkling water, still water, Pepsi, lemonade in the fridge, the toiletries were really nice ones decanted into dispensing bottles - there was a laminated card stuck to the mirror which said which was which but they were made by a local company, I absolutely loved one in particular I think it was rose, thyme and peony liquid soap, so much I bought everyone it one year for Christmas.
Breakfast was lovely all from local farms, and accompanied by home made toasted bread with home made marmalades, jams and curds.
Sadly the owners retired and sold up just as I was leaving that job, and it became just an ordinary family house.
Never found another B&B as nice since.

The Hilton Garden Inn that I last stayed in didn't have any!

And the Glasgow Radisson Blu by Central Station didn't have Tunnock's Wafers 18 months ago either, I feel cheated!

We stayed in a b&b in whitby where there was freshly baked cakes to help yourself to in the communal living room. And homemade lemon curd and jam with your toast for breakfast. It was amazing

Can't speak for the UK specifically, but the last time I stayed in a Hilton there were no warm cookies at check-in (whereas there were at Doubletree).

I’m pretty sure it’s just the Doubletree brand that has the lovely warm cookies on arrival. I haven’t had them in other Hilton hotels.

Thank you, 🫡 I will! My stay is 9th November… If I remember I will ask about gluten free too so they know there is demand.

@Genevive24 well none of them have cookies for me, so… I’ve never been offered it in a ‘normal’ Hilton but saw PP mention them on this thread. Report back, cookie comrade!

I will be staying in a Hilton in a few weeks for, I think, the first time! Crucially though, it is not a Doubletree. Is it only the Doubletrees that have cookies?!

Ughh

If we are staying in a UK hotel DH always packs a supply of extra teabags, including Earl Grey for me, as there are never enough (and usually no Earl Grey at all).

Sad to report that the fabled and celebrated Hot Cookie offered on arrival at the Hilton Doubletree does not include gluten free option. ‘Oh sorry,’ he says, ‘we get asked for that all the time,’ he says. WELL THEN GIMME THE COOKIE!

Handhold, thoughts and prayers, flowers please.

There's nothing more delightful than finding a reasonably priced establishment that does a wonderful and unexpected tea tray.

We stopped in one in Bridlington a few years back for the princely sum of £60 a night.

Fresh milk in a mini fridge, homemade cookies, small chocolate bars and fudge. Two bottles of still and sparkling water and actual proper sized drinking glasses that hold more than two mouthfuls of liquid.

A generous selection of teabags including plenty of breakfast tea, plain and flavoured hot chocolate and coffee bags which are marginally nice than instant.

Breakfast had a continental to rival many larger hotels - tropical fruit salad, yoghurt and granola pots, compote, smoked meats, cheese and salmon followed by a very high quality full English.

The rooms were clean and comfortable but hugely dated. If you're looking for somewhere a bit special you wouldn't book it from the pictures - it looks like a typical run down seaside bed and breakfast from a couple of decades ago.

Sadly, the owners were rather new to the game and I suspect slightly naive...I haven't had the opportunity to return and suspect that the breakfast at least must have been downgraded a fair amount - nicer biscuits etc are one thing but the breakfast must have cost a lot to put on for the room rate, and considering it was a fairly small (8-10 rooms I'd guess) there must have been a lot of wastage.

If you book a Travelodge Super Room, there is a Lavazza coffee machine and (I think) kit-kats provided. Only an extra £10 in some places.

Me too!

I drink decaf tea in the evening, a few mugs, so I always bring that as I don’t expect them to have expensive decaf tea, if they have any, but I hate fruit teas.

I had to use a Nespresso machine to make tea in a hotel in Prague last year - (I had taken my own tea bags 😂).

I was very disappointed to find no tea or coffee making facilities at our gorgeous hotel in Lake Garda this Summer. Luckily it was very, very hot, so I managed by drinking lots of water, but if I had arrived there in Winter, I would not have enjoyed my stay with no tea in my room.

As for biscuits, my favourite are the home made ones you get in posh boutique hotels. We should make a website where we can rate the in-room tea/coffee and biscuits!!

To me, the best hotel has home made biscuits; loads of tea bags and a kettle; plus a Nespresso machine with a full selection of coffees (I was amazed about 10 years ago to stay in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin, where I had stayed previously, and find a Nespresso machine in my room!!!, now it’s more common);

This hotel / guesthouse should also have premium toiletries like Milton Brown or Voya or Elemis. I hate big stainless steel shower gel dispensers in the wall - I’m always worried they will be filled with very cheap shower gel (I have eczema and this matters to me).

And a huge bath and separate shower !

I'm away on a trip now staying in multiple hotels, not got a pack of biscuits yet

Not sure where he stays, but DH has started bringing posh crisps back, in place of the biscuits.

I was in a hotel for my daughter's wedding a few years ago. The coffee, tea, hot chocolate tray was magnificent. There were little jars of homemade fudge and shortbread as well as bottles of water, packs of nice crisps and chocolates.

I've been disappointed with everywhere else I've stayed ever since

OOh lovely thanks

I stayed at a Field Studies Council centre on a school trip last week and the tea supplies in the teacher rooms were so impressive that I took a photo !

Several different types of tea inc decaf and herbal, normal and decaf coffee, hot chocolate, milk, two types of biscuit and a little bar of Tony's chocolate !

Highly recommended