Has lack of Premier Inn breakfast ruined the weekend?

Well the plan was PI breakfast (possible quick walk) and home. You seem to have unilaterally changed the plan when everyone was tired and hungry and just wanted to eat and go home.

Premier Inn breakfasts aren't all the same. They're often served in and catered by the attached pub/carvery - Travelodge are different and often have a kitchen in the basement/dining room. I've had different experiences across the board e.g. machine juice v jugs of fresh, cooked pancakes to order/buffet pancakes.

It sounds like you insisted on a trek to satisfy a desire you had for something novel and maybe more upmarket(?) when DH, at least, needs to eat before he gets going, needs more food than you, and may be prefers a different style of breakfast. Given you were leaving after breakfast because you were all a bit run down I think it was entirely the wrong time to try and do something different and very much the wrong time to trek around and look for something.

I would also normally prefer an independent cafe to a PI breakfast, but if we're going to do that, it's part of the plan for the weekend that everyone knows about in advance. DH will have made sure he had a packet of nuts or something to give his blood sugar a boost before the trek, etc. I'm much more of a lark than DH so very occasionally I will go out by myself first thing and have a lovely breakfast somewhere on my own while DH enjoys a more leisurely morning with the hotel breakfast and a lie in.

Your DH's sulking is bloody annoying and if he has a habit of doing that when he doesn't get his own way I think that could be a bigger issue. But if you have a habit of insisting on everyone trailing around until you find somewhere you like, that is also a bigger issue.

So I think you did ruin the weekend a bit for your DH by putting your desires ahead of everyone else, and DH may have ruined it a bit for you by sulking. The comment about you being difficult and always making the decisions does make it sound like you are often pushing for something different and the two of you have incompatible tastes on some things. You may need to have a calm discussion about what you both like and work out how to compromise in a way you can both enjoy.

Sounds as though he was really looking forwards to that PI breakfast. He should have made that clear but also you could easily have had the PI breakfast and then gone out for a mid morning coffee in a nice cafe instead.

He did contribute to the plans, first plan, PI breakfast, second plan Pret

OP didnt like either

Ive been there, I am OP, this is what I do and its really annoying and wastes a lot of time.

But porridge and pastries are not as good as cheap hash browns and eggs and sausages with lots of ketchup

i love a cheap and cheerful mediocre Dnglish Breakfast

porridge in a naice cafe would make me sad 😁😁😁 And I don’t care for pastries

i also do not care for being bossed around about where to eat 😁😁😁

oh dear, I’m on grumpy husband’s side 😮

Next time, make no decisions and see what happens.

I think it depends whether it was a unilateral decision (by you), or a group decision not to eat at the hotel?

Sounds lovely and I would have enjoyed it but to be fair if you really want a cooked breakfast toast and pastries aren’t going to cut it really.

They could easily have had tea and coffee in their rooms before going out

But the point is / he could have said “I’d rather eat here first “ and didn’t

not the actual end result of a a simpler higher quality breakfast against the PI option

I have never experienced a Premier Inn Breakfast, but I wouldn't want to go somewhere on holiday and then eat the same thing I'd eaten many times before, because of the quantitiy of it available.

He was probably tired and run down and hangry, I'd let him sulk, and next time ask him to contribute to plans or go along with what's planned. Wandering around and finding new places and having new experiences is part of the fun, surely? He could have a Premier Inn breakfast close to home every weekend should he wish.

So there was a plentiful breakfast available at the hotel but instead you all had to go out on a 20 minute walk presumably without so much as a cup of tea and a hungry "I want my breakfast" stomach?!
Yeah, I'd have been getting hangry too especially if after the 20 minute walk there was
"What about that Pret?"
"No, don't want that".
Then a queue and more dithering about.

Rarrgh 😁
#TeamDH

I would have searched online for breakfast places before leaving the hotel (incidentally I was in London a few weeks ago and had breakfast at Eggslut and it was so good).
I'm a foodie so no way would I be in London and have a PI breakfast where there tonnes of indie places around.

I think that you should have gone yourown way. DH and DS, breakfast at the hotel. You and DD, walk and cafe, then decide on meeting up. The trip was for the theatre. At one time I used to fit in as much in as I could, but it doesn't end up really suiting any of us. I'm going in March, staying in the PI by Euston. It's a case of, 'our train leaves at x' let's each decide how we want to make use of our time. We've prebooked breakfast, though.

We stayed in a PI in August and it was table service for hot breakfast - you ordered off the menu and it was all cooked to order.

To be honest OP you sound like me and I dont mean in a good way

I drive myself mad with 'this isnt right', 'dont like the chairs', 'too busy, 'too quiet', 'too modern', 'too hot', 'too cold'

Im tramping around for ages before I settle on something and then thats because we're about to pass out. When we could have eaten somewhere else much earlier.

And then I moan about my own choice all day

So I have sympathy with you both

It's also all available at the hotel.

Why do you think it’d be ‘middling or grim’? Have you ever had one, or is it just prejudice?

The last PI buffet breakfasts we had included fresh fruit salad, yogurt, a choice of cereals, croissants, pancakes, bacon, sausages, fried eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans, unlimited toast, tea and coffee, orange and apple juice.

But no avocados or chia seeds, so I dare say that makes it pretty grim by MN standards.

Yes. It sounds like it was boring

Yes, I stay in PI once or twice a year. The ones I have stayed in recently have only had buffet for cooked breakfast.

Honestly? If I was wanting a fry-up and I ended up with porridge, toast and pastries I'd not be very impressed.

Agree with this really. My pet hate is aimlessly wandering round trying to find food - I normally look on Tripadvisor for a plan A and plan B on a city break before we even go out. It was the only time my best friend and I got arsey with each other on a recent trip to Belfast! However he was stropping to make you feel like shit over it which is very unreasonable.

I'd have done the PO breakfast and got a café lunch on the way to the station after our walk.

I think it was just bad planning really. Sounds like it would have been far easier to eat at the Premiere Inn. I have to say nothing winds me up more than trekking around looking for food when you’re hungry knowing you’ve just walked out of a place that does a breakfast you would have been happy with! Lesson learnt either stick with the hotel breakfast or have an agreed plan and research where you are going to go.

He’s being a baby though carrying on about it and creating an atmosphere. I’d be telling him to give his head a wobble.

I love a good Premier Inn breakfast.

I always prefer to eat at the hotel before heading out for the day. I would hate just traipsing aimlessly around trying to find breakfast and get the day started. I'd find that extremely irritating.

So, I would probably be your DH in this situation.