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Hotel Biscuits

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EastFifeFiveForfarFour · 19/10/2024 00:12

AIBU to think that the availability and standard of hotel room biscuits has declined significantly?

There was once a time when you could at the very least rely on a solid, standard biscuit, like a bourbon or a custard cream. Now you’re lucky if you get any at all.

More expensive places used to give you a home baked cookie in a fancy bag tied with a bow. Now you get bought in standard conference room biscuits at best.

Big up to the Premier Inn though - their premium rooms had Green & Blacks chocolate last time I stayed.

Maybe I need to get over this shit.

AIBU?

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AlexaSetATimer · 24/10/2024 22:52

I think we should all come back and update the thread when we find a gem, or at the opposite end, a completely unacceptable biscuit!

Genevive24 · 23/10/2024 15:56

benid · 23/10/2024 14:41

Oh amazing! Care to share the name?

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Mill Farm B&B.
It was all decorated for Halloween! Not sure if the chocolate was a Halloween extra, but it was a lovely touch. A full English breakfast is included in the price and is cooked to order. Had a really lovely stay and nice to support a local family business 😊

benid · 23/10/2024 14:41

Genevive24 · 23/10/2024 12:18

I feel it my duty to inform everyone that there is a very cute and reasonably priced bed and breakfast in Great Ayton that supplies not only tea and coffee and biscuits but full size chocolate bars in their rooms! Last time I went I had a bounty and a snickers- both happening to be my absolute favourites. It felt very special :-)

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Oh amazing! Care to share the name?

Genevive24 · 23/10/2024 12:18

I feel it my duty to inform everyone that there is a very cute and reasonably priced bed and breakfast in Great Ayton that supplies not only tea and coffee and biscuits but full size chocolate bars in their rooms! Last time I went I had a bounty and a snickers- both happening to be my absolute favourites. It felt very special :-)

tommyhoundmum · 22/10/2024 10:32

I would tend to travel with my own biscuits in case I encountered a famine. Current favourites are Le Petit Chocolat currently half price in Sainsbury.

EBearhug · 22/10/2024 09:07

I'm not so bothered about clean towels, as long as there's somewhere to hang them to dry (and there's not always - what's wrong with providing hooks or rails?) But one of the things I like about paying for a hotel room is that I don't have to do the housework - part of what I'm paying for is for someone else to make the bed and clean the bathroom basin.

(And replenish the biscuits.)

Pippa246 · 22/10/2024 08:49

CameltoeParkerBowles · 22/10/2024 07:38

Oh God! That drives me mad too.
"Please give me some clean towels, so that I can hasten the end of humanity and cost the hotel a few quid. Thanks, Satan"

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🤣🤣🤣
I wish I’d taken a picture of the thing that hangs on the door - it was sooooo passive-aggressive and supposed-to-be guilt inducing. If I’m paying over £100 a night (out of peak time) I want a fresh towel!

Bjorkdidit · 22/10/2024 08:00

I like the new 'lack of room service' in hotels. There's nothing I do in there that needs a full clean every day or even in a few days, I'm perfectly capable of hanging a towel up after I've used it and it means I don't need to unmake the bed so I can actually get in it to go to sleep.

DataPup · 22/10/2024 07:38

I'm coeliac so I get irritated when there's biscuits I can't eat. No biscuits means I don't feel I'm missing out!

CameltoeParkerBowles · 22/10/2024 07:38

Pippa246 · 19/10/2024 13:00

@EastFifeFiveForfarFour YANBU. But it’s part of a Ryanair approach to hospitality I am finding now. Everything is “extra” - not necessarily costing more but you need to ask for it.

Stayed at a very nice Hilton fairly recently and we didn’t even getting housekeeping as we “didn’t request it”. The only thing in the room mentioned towels only - the thing that hangs on the door said something like “I cannot help save the planet today so please change our towels” - on BOTH sides of the notice. Neither side said “please make up our room” which I thought was rather sneaky. And I hate the way hotels try to pass this off as a climate initiative rather than just cost cutting.

I had to go to reception to request clean cups, milk, more tea bags etc. Then had an argument with them as no one told us at check in we’d need to request such basic service. We were paying about £120 a night for 2 adults. Won’t be back, that’s for sure.

Oh God! That drives me mad too.
"Please give me some clean towels, so that I can hasten the end of humanity and cost the hotel a few quid. Thanks, Satan"

CameltoeParkerBowles · 22/10/2024 07:32

ThatsNotMyTeen · 19/10/2024 01:07

i agree the standard of biscuits is now either rubbish or non existent

we had a night away this week and it was plain digestives! I mean wtf is the point.

I tend to take my own now!

Oh, I disagree. The digestive is the KING of biscuits! Unless it's not a McVitie's one - then you may as well use it to wipe the loo seat.

YellowAsteroid · 21/10/2024 17:00

I just stayed in a place which had a very nice selection and quantity of ginger biscuits and chocolate chip cookies. Luckily not custard creams as I’d have eaten them all.

mitogoshigg · 21/10/2024 15:30

They have disappeared completely from most hotels, even at 4 star level. I'm most disappointed. Also decaffeinated tea/fruit tea is rare now

AlexaSetATimer · 21/10/2024 15:13

Gorgonemilezola · 20/10/2024 07:58

Used to run a B&B in Scotland and shortbread and Tunnock's teacakes and wafers were staples on the tea tray.

Love it. Can't beat a Tunnocks.

AlexaSetATimer · 21/10/2024 15:11

Yogaandchocolate · 19/10/2024 23:49

The last hotel I stayed at just had a communal tea and coffee station at reception. Which was a pain if you wanted a cup of tea in bed in the morning, as you had to get dressed first and go downstairs first.

Oh I would hate that! One of the few perks for me about staying away in a hotel is being able to make a coffee 2 feet from your bed and getting back in bed to drink it and watch morning tv!

AlexaSetATimer · 21/10/2024 14:59

SnowFrogJelly · 19/10/2024 00:22

First world problems 🙄

We all need a little levity in our lives. If all we talked about on this, or any other forum, were super serious issues, it would be bloody depressing.

I'm with you OP, I feel the standard has declined. Although I stayed in a very cute guest house last week and they had Biscoff biscuits AND a Lindt chocolate on the tray, so they will be getting my return business! Maybe independent is the way to go.

OriginalUsername2 · 21/10/2024 14:45

My DP brought home a packet of Biscoff a few weeks ago. I didn’t think of hotels at the time. I said “For some reason I feel like I’m at the hairdressers when I eat these.”

Notmollybutdolly · 21/10/2024 14:28

RogueFemale · 19/10/2024 01:21

I run an Airbnb, and have thought about providing biscuits, (those lovely www.islandbakery.scot/ ones) but then was worried about people with allergies to nuts. I sometimes put a [glass] bottle of local mineral water in the fridge, as a lot of guests are American, but some don't drink carbonated water. I now leave still water, if I do at all...

I love love love these biscuits especially the half Lemon ones mmmm

WildFlowerBees · 21/10/2024 14:26

I think there needs to be a biscuit rating.

All Borders biscuits are low down in the ratings for me same with a walkers shortbread. Too ordinary and mainstream.

Warm cookies yes, cheap bourbons no.

Locally made, perfect!

5128gap · 21/10/2024 14:11

I stayed in a hotel last week and there was a couple of biscoff. This is extremely exciting when you're vegan, second only to a bourbon (which as you rightly point out, is a rare occurrence these days.)
Unfortunately on opening the little packet I found that one had been smashed to crumbs and was quite undunkable.
I felt that my (firm but fair) trip adviser review conveyed my disappointment.
They haven't responded.

benid · 21/10/2024 14:01

LadyLucksalot · 19/10/2024 12:57

I read this and immediately thought it would be about a biscuity version of Hotel Chocolat. They would have beautiful versions of warm biscuits, biscuit mixes, travel biscuits, biscuit selection boxes ...

And there would be a marvellously retro version of a biscuit maker that makes foolproof, cafe-quality biscuits.

Bitterly disappointed.

This is genius! Please start this business Grin

rainbowsparkle28 · 21/10/2024 13:55

Try being coeliac then come back to me on this...🙄

benid · 21/10/2024 13:53

We recently stayed in a fab B&B in the lakes which had lovely biscuits and ALSO from 4pm onwards home made cake for you to help yourself too from the breakfast room 😍

Biffbaff · 21/10/2024 13:51

SocksAndTheCity · 19/10/2024 00:25

I remember the Radisson Blu in Glasgow City Centre had Tunnock's Caramel Wafers in the rooms when I stayed there for work about ten years ago. I still think about it now 😊

I'm still salty about the fact that when I went to a Radisson Blu in Essex in 2015 but got caught in traffic on the way and was ravenous by the time of arrival, I was relying on hotel room biscuits to fix me. And there were none provided! Shocked and disappointed. It's quite common these days though, sadly.

CatamaranViper · 21/10/2024 13:49

The only reason I give blood is for a fab, guilt free biscuit selection at the end.