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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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ParrotPirouette · 21/10/2024 13:48

shellyleppard · 19/10/2024 00:33

@Blarn Travelodge are a bit basic. Lady time I stayed in one there were pubes on the shower wall 🤢🤢

I have genuinely never had a bad experience in a Travelodge, stayed in one in London on Saturday, it was fantastic.
no biscuits though

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 21/10/2024 13:47

The only hotel I've stayed in lately had a couple of chocolates rather than biscuits. I was delighted... until I ate one. Vegan chocolate - bleurgh! Yes, I get why they'd choose to put vegan ones out, but honestly they were horrible.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 21/10/2024 13:44

SnowFrogJelly · 19/10/2024 00:22

First world problems 🙄

Does every trivial thread really need to have a <lighthearted> disclaimer so that you don't grumpily assume the OP thinks that poor-quality biscuits etc are a source of terrible woe and deep trauma?! Seriously- how could you possibly think a thread about biscuits was anything other than lighthearted?

MaddestGranny · 21/10/2024 13:34

Before my most recent hotel-stay (short package/Spain), I'd fortunately read in advance that the hotel didn't even provide kettles in the rooms. Shock, horror. So, I've added a small travel kettle to my travel kit, along with v small cafetiere, a week's supply of ground coffee and some tea-bags.

Perfect for sitting reading on the balcony looking at the sea - which is my ideal relaxation.
Naturally, there's also a corkscrew in that kit for locally sourced wine.😁

Cookerhood · 21/10/2024 12:33

Friendofdennis · 19/10/2024 00:47

Morgan’s Hotel in Swansea has Welsh cakes, chocolates and other goodies in the room The toiletries are Molton Brown

We didn't get Welsh cakes there 😢
We did get Molton Brown toiletries though

Nogaxeh · 21/10/2024 12:32

The Butler Arms in Waterville, Co. Kerry, provide Skelligs chocolate truffles instead of biscuits. A very pleasant surprise.

Singleandproud · 21/10/2024 12:31

The Travelodge I stay in for work gives you a 2 finger KitKat - sometimes, it's not always consistent.

ThePoshUns · 21/10/2024 12:30

See I do like a peppermint tea of an evening.

soupfiend · 21/10/2024 12:28

Oh this!

I mean who the hell drinks fruit and herbal teas by the bucket load anyway. I have tea on a drip virtually. Normal, straightforward tea. None of your nonsense.

AnnieMay55 · 21/10/2024 12:20

What also annoys me in hotels is the selection of teas and coffees. There are never enough normal breakfast teas. We often want a tea when we arrive, maybe another later in the evening and one when we wake up before breakfast. We don't need a whole selection of fruit teas and coffees but sometimes there are only 2 normal tea bags for 2 people. I am sure a lot of people want to drink several of the same drink. The other moan is they are not replaced if you don't have your room serviced, which seems to be done less now since COVID.

Donsyb · 21/10/2024 09:37

I’ve not stayed in a nice hotel and not had biscuits. Always had at least borders or walkers shortbread. In more luxury hotels, nicer biscuits or home made. Some have pantries where you can go and help yourself rather than in the room itself.

only time recently I got. Nothing was in a hub by premier inn - most basic of basic 😂

LaDamaDeElche · 21/10/2024 07:11

SnowFrogJelly · 19/10/2024 00:22

First world problems 🙄

Stupid comment. It’s a chat forum, people can post about what they like.

Genevive24 · 20/10/2024 21:33

If I was a hotel critic, the presence of biscuits would instantly add an extra star to my review!

Hotels get major bonus points from me for, in order:

  • biscuits in rooms
  • breakfast that offers fresh fruit salad, chocolate croissants and plentiful fresh (not tinned!) cooked mushrooms.
  • Miniatures that include separate hair conditioner.
  • A decent hairdryer that you can unplug and that doesn't have a shitty springy cable.

Disappointingly, I clearly have luxury tastes that outstrip my budget. Alas a sachet of Nescafe and a wall-dispenser of “hair and body wash” are usually the only extra treats that I get for my buck.

GreatNorthBun · 20/10/2024 21:27

I stayed in a hotel recently and there was a vase of Tunnock's teacakes. Delightful!

Hoppinggreen · 20/10/2024 21:21

SnowFrogJelly · 19/10/2024 00:22

First world problems 🙄

Its biscuits mate, very important

Dogsbreath7 · 20/10/2024 21:20

Inertia · 19/10/2024 09:06

I’m fond of a ginger biscuit in a hotel.

Custard creams are not worth the calories.

We stayed in a pub with rooms in North Wales that had a mini fridge for fresh milk, good biscuits and even provided dog treats for any dogs booked in .

The custard creams WAS the fig biscuits.

so my dog tells me every time.

Rachand23 · 20/10/2024 21:03

Not only are the biscuits disappearing the shower caps are no where to be found! I know they are plastic but I don’t want to wash my hair twice a day thank you!

Exasperateddonut · 20/10/2024 20:29

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/10/2024 04:31

Ohhhhh... I very much rate a hotel by its biscuits.

Yes, Doubletree certainly used to give you a big cookie at check in, they were lovely.

I normally stay at Travelodge where you're lucky if theres a tea and a coffee.

Very fancy hip hotel in Brussels had fizzy water, still water, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, posh chocolates, biscuits and a range of branded chocolate bars (nope not highly expensive mini bar stuff, all free gifties, we checked, I am paranoid!)... and the accessible bathroom had a height adjustable sink and roll in shower space (and you could ask for a shower stool to be provided instead if you wanted).

They had a van, in the dining room, that served waffles at breakfast. Like an icecream van, only waffles. Mind, blown.

Please tell me of this hotel as I need to
escape the country for a few days and the waffles are calling.

DelicateSoundOfEchos · 20/10/2024 20:23

I like the warm cookies you get on check in at Hilton.

And Gotham in Manchester has pig shaped and decorated biscuits that are lovely.

I like the little touches and they'll sometimes prompt me to choose one hotel over another.

ThinWomansBrain · 20/10/2024 20:04

@Bjorkdidit I'm thinking a stop off at Waitrose and a box of Fudge's dark chocolate florentines.

ThistleTits · 20/10/2024 19:59

Stringagal · 19/10/2024 00:37

Not a good choice to dunk in your tea

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Clarabell77 · 20/10/2024 19:08

I stayed in a hotel in Manchester last week and one in London the week before and there were none in either.

Fedupandstressed · 20/10/2024 19:04

My son works nights at a Doubletree and they hand the cookies out in the morning.

The (not so) stale ones get thrown out from the day before, for which I am truly grateful. Apparently I am the garbage disposal Grin

LorettyTen · 20/10/2024 17:49

There's a B&B in Campbeltown, Kintyre, with the most amazing selection of snacks I've ever seen. Everything you could think of, including a selection of fruit juice in the fridge. Chocolate bars, biscuits, home baked cakes, cereal, crisps. I've never stayed anywhere as nice as that. The hosts were lovely too.

ThePoshUns · 20/10/2024 11:17

I might open a chain of Biscuit Hotels. With biscuit themed rooms.