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Going down to hotel breakfast in PJs and socks

133 replies

KenAdams · 01/01/2019 20:20

I was at a Holiday Inn recently and an entire family came down to breakfast in PJs and socks. Is this common? I've never seen it before.

Breakfast was in the restaurant so not close to any rooms or anything. I just though it was a bit weird and unhygenic. I might go down to breakfast without make up on or whatever but I'd always get dressed and put shoes on at the very least!

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roundtable · 02/01/2019 02:51

I'm in the us at the moment and about a quarter of the hotel guests seemed to turn up to breakfast in their pjs.

Not my family though.

blindmusicmum · 02/01/2019 02:54

I would never go to breakfast in my Qj's. Like someone already said, x'sn a good example for the kids and it's just not socially acceptable.

Cel982 · 02/01/2019 02:58

Good manners are generally about consideration for others. Some people have no understanding of this.

Well yes, exactly (re the 'consideration for others' bit). I'm not sure how somebody else wearing PJs to breakfast could possibly impact on your comfort/happiness? Is it really so offensive to the eye? I've never done it, granted, but it certainly wouldn't bother me in the slightest to see it.

There's a very long-established luxury hotel in a neighbouring county where guests are encouraged to lounge around in their (hotel-provided) bathrobes until lunchtime. Sounds heavenly...

Topseyt · 02/01/2019 03:07

I would not do this in a hotel. Not acceptable in public, and it looks slobbish.

At home is a different matter. I often eat breakfast in my PJs and slippers. There's a time and a place.

Racecardriver · 02/01/2019 03:16

Coming down to breakfast at home I’m my pyjamas makes me feel guilty forget doing it in public! I usually order breakfast to my room for this reason.

ThePoliticiansPraiseMyName · 02/01/2019 03:46

If we're on a road trip so staying in multiple hotels for one night or so each (common here in Canada) then the dc age 4 and 6 often go to breakfast in clean (not slept in) onesies because that's what they will be travelling in after breakfast. They wear trainers with them though and Dh and I are always fully dressed.

AGHHHH · 02/01/2019 04:27

Couldn't care less about this...

Beansonapost · 02/01/2019 04:59

What's the point of getting dressed?

I have breakfast in my pjs because after... I go back to the room... I do my morning poo, clean my teeth have my shower and get dressed for the day. I'm on holiday!!!

I only order room service when I've slept naked... well that's what DH and I did before we had children... it's fab!

How is it unhygienic and why is it bothering you? It's not like they're sat there in the nude eating their food. And it's not they used their feet covered in socks to serve themselves.

Silkie2 · 02/01/2019 06:06

I would say it's unhygienic. Imagine semen or wee dribbles on pjs, 8 hours of night sweat. You wouldn't want the staff serving food in grubby y fronts.

Mustangsallyis · 02/01/2019 06:47

This seems to be very common in US and Canada from my experience

Iruka · 02/01/2019 07:44

I get dressed for breakfast in a hotel but when these threads crop up I am always a bit puzzled by the outrage about lack of hygiene.

Why is sleeping for 6-8 hours so much dirtier than being out and about for 10 hours or so? Or do you think everyone sitting down for dinner in a hotel has showered and put on clean clothes?

Juanbablo · 02/01/2019 07:57

I've never seen this. In some hotels we've stayed in there have been signs saying you can't wear swimwear in the restaurant. I can't imagine PJ's would be tolerated either.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 02/01/2019 08:02

While it’s harmless, I do think it looks slovenly. Get room service if you want breakfast in your jammies!

ImogenTubbs · 02/01/2019 08:07

The only place I have done this is a spa hotel I go to with my mum that only allows women guests and where they give you a big fluffy dressing gown and slippers. Everyone does it there and even then I get dressed for lunch. Otherwise it's pretty tacky and inconsiderate, I agree.

PeridotCricket · 02/01/2019 08:09

What’s an ‘orange walk on’?

I think getting dressed is basic manners. Ditto wandering around shops in pjs and slippers. Just put some outside clothes on.

ImogenTubbs · 02/01/2019 08:11

Iruka- I may be wrong, but I think people's hygiene concerns are the other way around - not nice wearing your slippers to tramp around a hotel carpet that's had god knows what trudged across it and get breakfast food all over something you might want to wear again in bed that night. I'm less squeamish over the hygiene issue, but I think that is the point, not that your PJs are dirty.

MargueritaPink · 02/01/2019 08:18

I have never seen this happen in any hotel I've ever stayed in and I've stayed in lots from top of the range like The Ritz and The Adlon to basic hotels.

CallMeSirShotsFired · 02/01/2019 08:19

Is nobody else laughing at the idea of Bbub observing this:

"This morning though, where I was staying, i saw someone at the breakfast buffet briefly wash their hands using the drinks dispenser"

Grin Grin Grin

purpleleotard · 02/01/2019 08:26

I think that it is socially acceptable in Japan, not sure if it is the norm as only stayed in a couple of hotels.

comebacksoonsusan · 02/01/2019 08:28

I wondered if an 'orange walk on' referred to fake tan?

Wouldn't do this personally.

EBearhug · 02/01/2019 08:32

I don't think I've seen this, but I also don't think I am likely to notice anything much at breakfast in any case. It has made me realise that I don't even think of having breakfast in my own house unless I have already got dressed. Eating in pyjamas is something you only do when ill, in my head. And definitely not in public.

I found it it quite difficult in a spa hotel to be eating in a dressing gown, despite the fact that everyone was doing it, and to go and get changed into normal clothes would have involved a long trek to the lockers at the other end of the building.

Don't care about bare feet, however. I'd go barefoot a lot more than I already do, given the choice. I know that bothers a lot of people, though.

JeanMichelBisquiat · 02/01/2019 08:41

My normally very unjudgemental MIL was commenting on this just the other day, after a stay in a hotel in....OXFORD! (What's going on in Oxford?!) She said one woman was in a kind of skimpy negligee Shock

sandgrown · 02/01/2019 08:43

We stayed in quite a nice hotel in Spain where a whole family of about six people (English) came down in their PJ s every day. They got some very disapproving looks from the Spanish guests. I think it looks slobby. If I forget to put the bins out on collection day I put a really long coat over my dressing gown to run out and hope none of the neighbours see me!

Urbanbeetler · 02/01/2019 08:56

Skimpy is one thing but ordinary pjs generally cover everything which needs covering and more so no idea why they are less cceptable than a similarly body-covering track suit or jeans and T-shirt. You sound like a bunch of 1950 Hyacinth Buckets with your , ‘ How common’ comments. I don’t wear them to breakfast because I don’t wear them in bed but they don’t bother me in the slightest. What a silly thing to be all judgmental about when there are so many real, damage-causing arseholes in the world to save for your pants-hoisting.

MargueritaPink · 02/01/2019 09:06

wondered if an 'orange walk on' referred to fake tan?

Orange Walk (although I am failing to see the connection with a predilection for coming down to breakfast in pyjamas. If anything I would have assumed hard line Orange men and women would be too straight laced to be that casual)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_walk?wprov=sfla1

Orange walksare a series of parades held annually by members of theOrange Orderon a regular basis during the summer inUlster,mostly inScotland, occasionally inEngland, and throughout theCommonwealth. These typically build up to12 July celebrationswhich mark PrinceWilliam of Orange's victory over KingJames IIat theBattle of the Boynein 1690