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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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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 20/10/2024 10:09

The biscuits I’d really like are M&S Cornish Cruncher cheese ones. 😋

Bjorkdidit · 20/10/2024 08:42

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.

I recently flew with Logan Air and despite the flight being about half an hour long, was given a Tunnocks tea cake and a tiny cup of water, which was a nice surprise as I only ever usually fly low cost where all on board refreshments cost money.

JudgeJ · 20/10/2024 08:19

Booteek · 19/10/2024 05:06

Vitally important thread. Tea and quality biscuits in hotel rooms must be protected!

We stayed in a small BnB in Northumberland, Nespresso machine , a variety of teas, hot chocolate sachets, homemade warmish banana bread (before covid when we got sick of it) and a tiny fridge with fresh milk, in the morning there were even homemade baked beans too!

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.

bifurCAT · 20/10/2024 07:48

I absolutely agree. This is a big criterion on how I judge hotels!

ForDogsSake · 20/10/2024 07:12

I'm partial to a shortbread or two on the hospitality tray in a hotel room, I wouldn't be happy about no biscuits at all.
On a side note, a hotel I once stayed in had a cupboard outside my room, which housed the biscuits, and bloody nice biscuits they were too. Posh ones.
I was fair biscuited out by the time I left.

ChessieFL · 20/10/2024 06:19

I stay in hotels a lot for work and I’m always pleased when I get biscuits! Happens less and less, unfortunately.

When I’m in London I mainly stay in an ibis. They used to give you Biscoff but nothi by for the last year or so.

I also have fond memories of the Doubletree check in cookies, and the few occasions I’ve been lucky enough to stay there!

Alaimo · 20/10/2024 05:01

Shoutout to the Tollhouse Inn in Lancaster who provide homemade (or maybe from a local bakery) shortbread. And when I had the "no housekeeping required" sign in my door, they left a fresh supply of shortbread outside my door.

BoxOfCats · 20/10/2024 04:48

I had to travel to Australia for work a few times recently, and the mini bars were pleasantly surprising! Really nice treats on offer, even single use face masks, artisan fudge, locally made biscuits, that sort of thing. These places were all in the city centre so no point trying to compete with the abundant convenience stores nearby.

Bjorkdidit · 20/10/2024 02:42

But it won't cost an extra fiver for a couple of posh biscuits, the extra cost must be under £1.

Costco sells a multipack of Border Biscuits in packs 2 for under £10 for about 40, so about 25 p each. Most people on this thread would be more than happy with those instead of a couple of digestives.

Plus a dedicated wholesaler will have a wider choice that might be slightly more but likely maybe 50 p? per pack?

ThinWomansBrain · 19/10/2024 23:54

think about it rationally - you could pay an additional £5 a night and get "nice" biscuits that might or might not be to your taste.
Or have a lower room cost and spend £5 on biscuits or chocolate that is exactly to your taste.

I know what I'd prefer.

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.

JingsMahBucket · 19/10/2024 23:36

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.

@WiddlinDiddlin what’s the name of the hotel in Brussels please? I’ll be heading there next year.

EBearhug · 19/10/2024 19:24

MoreCardassianThanKardashian · 19/10/2024 16:46

But the extortionate prices!!!!

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I know, and I wouldn't have anything if there had been anything, bit I still like to see what there is, just as I like to judge the tea and coffee options, despite not drinking either.

SwingsAndRoundabouts22 · 19/10/2024 19:00

Stayed at a Lake District BnB just before COVID and the couple who ran in put home made tiffin in the room every afternoon for tea, as well as a decanter of port! Happy times.

Ginisatonic · 19/10/2024 18:45

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 😊

Lots of Scottish hotels have Tunnock’s caramel wafers. We stay in quite a few different ones. I judge them harshly if they have anything else on offer. We’re staying at a new hotel soon which definitely thinks of itself as posh. I’ll decide on that once I see the biscuit offering.

AtlasPine · 19/10/2024 18:42

We stayed in Dom and Steph’s posh b&b in Sandwich before I’d ever watched googlebox. The room had a small carafe of sherry which was very civilised. I’m ashamed to say I can’t recall what the biscuits were but there were also savoury nibble things.

WildFlowerBees · 19/10/2024 18:28

I stayed in a hotel in Paris that didn't have biscuits, it had gin and tonic refreshed daily. Bloody brilliant!

ThePoshUns · 19/10/2024 18:26

CharlotteStreetW1 · 19/10/2024 12:59

I used to run a B&B. Walkers shortbread biscuits since you ask.

The best hotel "biscuits" I had were a generous decorative tin of stroopwafel in Amsterdam 😋.

The king of biscuits

AsFunAsEnglishWeather · 19/10/2024 16:58

Empty minibars are fine - means you don't have to tell children not to eat things (as by weight, they cost more than rubies) and I can put my medication in the fridge without setting off those rubbish 'she ate something! charge her!' alarms.

MoreCardassianThanKardashian · 19/10/2024 16:46

EastFifeFiveForfarFour · 19/10/2024 15:05

I’m tempted to start another chat about the sad death of the mini bar.

But the extortionate prices!!!!

wizzywig · 19/10/2024 16:37

@EBearhug that would enrage me!

EBearhug · 19/10/2024 15:07

Yes! My minibar was empty last night!

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EastFifeFiveForfarFour · 19/10/2024 15:05

I’m tempted to start another chat about the sad death of the mini bar.

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MoreCardassianThanKardashian · 19/10/2024 15:01

Hotel football give you space raiders, cans of vimto and chewy sweets. They refill you if you stay for more than one night too. Heaven.

Most hotels seem to have those cookies in a matte packet and they are dry as fuck. They don't even seem to have hot chocolate any more.