Going down to hotel breakfast in PJs and socks

[KenAdams]

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!

I stay in hotels very regularly and have never seen this. I feel I've missed out.

I’ve never seen this & would certainly give a bit of side eye. Even my MIL, who is the worst for slobbing around in pjs all day, would draw the line at this.

My upbringing was such that I never even really saw my parents in their nightclothes. I went on holiday with another family and agonised over whether I needed to put on my clothes before going into the kitchen in the morning because to have my friends husband see me in pyjamas just seemed so wrong. I could never imagine going to breakfast in a hotel in my pyjamas.

On a similar note, I never took my children out wearing baby gros etc when they were tiny because going out in public in pyjamas was just ingrained in me as 'wrong'.

To me it smacks of a complete lack of hygiene. If they can’t be bothered to get dressed and put on shoes, I seriously doubt they’re fastidious about regularly washing their PJs, hands etc.

I wince at having to share serving cutlery, drinks dispensers etc with people who obviously haven’t washed that day 🤮.

I don't think this is a class thing tbh, the more money the hotel costs the more prevalent the pyjama wearing in my experience
Yes but there’s no necessary relationship between money and class. Spending a lot of money on a hotel doesn’t mean people have class or manners. As many posts on this thread demonstrate.

At a spa.hotel in one of their white dressing gowns I think its.ok as it gives off the vibe of, oh we've just been for our early morning swim not just rolled out of bed. Anything else, no !

I have a black tshirt I wear out and about. It was actually part of a pj set.

My pjs are string-drawn, full leg, cotton blend with stripes.
My tracksuit bottoms are string-drawn, full leg, cotton blend with stripes.
One of these is, apparently, inappropriate; and the other fine.

Assuming they din't arrive in Ann Summer's finest, I struggle to see what you can see that you wouldn't see in normal clothes - which may be equally wee, cum, and sweat stained from a day's use (as alluded to in a previous post)

I think it is just bad manners. Yes, you may eat breakfast in pj's at home, but a hotel dining room is a public place. I would feel very exposed and uncomfortable if I did this.
My prize for inappropriate attire though, goes to a lady when on holiday in Spain. There was a small supermarket just round the corner from the pool, but outside the complex. I was in there and this woman had obviously just popped in from the poolside for something, but she was topless and just wearing a tiny pair of bikini bottoms. She couldn't understand why the shopkeeper was aghast . He was asking her to put some clothes on, but she didn't understand and just shrugged and looked at him blankly.

I have a long term health condition and chronic pain. I need to take morning meds with food, but can't move or do very much until after pain killers have kicked in.

I pay the approx £5-£10 to have breakfast served in my room. Any other hidden cost of disability. If I could, I'd go down to breakfast in PJs. But would probably use my wheelchair too.

I saw a whole family do this in a very lovely London hotel we were staying in. There were loads of them, parents, grandparents, teenagers and little children. They looked ridiculous, hair sticking out all over the place, creased PJ's and I can only imagine the "just got out of bed smell"! Just yuk!!!

I've never seen anyone at a hotel breakfast in pyjamas! Not something I'd do. Like PPs say, it's not difficult to get dressed.

I guess these are the same people who go to the supermarket in their pyjamas?

A 'just got out of bed smell'?

I've never done the pjs at hotel breakfast thing. But unless we're on an early schedule and going straight out after, I just throw on a dress/ jeans and a shirt and wash after breakfast. And take my time.

I don't think this is a class thing tbh, the more money the hotel costs the more prevalent the pyjama wearing in my experience

I have stayed at many very expensive hotels in Europe and have never seen this.

We once went for breakfast in a premier inn and a whole family (about 20 of them) were in PJ's. Some of them had on really skimpy nighties or short and t shirts, I did ask the staff if that was normal and they said it was the first time it had ever happened and none of them really knew what to do! Small children is one thing but grown adults no!

My god, I've never seen it but definitely not acceptable in my eyes. It's not what I want to see first thing in the morning. I don't stay in hotels often but when I do its a treat and kind of expect a certain standard when I do - from the hotel, the staff AND other guests! I don't like to think someone is sitting there with no pants on, or not showered after a night of passion or something gross like that. If they can't be bothered to get dressed then have they even washed their hands before handling the bread?!... Under drinks dispenser doesn't count!

But then on holiday we always go Self Catering for this reason - in a hotel getting dressed is required to go to breakfast and I can't be bothered when it's my holiday!

WRT hygiene, maybe it depends on when you shower? I'm a morning showerer, so by the time I get into pyjamas I've been awake and active for 16ish hours since my last shower, then go 8 hours sleeping and sweating into them, so they're very quickly unclean. However, if you shower in the evening and immediately put on your pyjamas, only wearing them to bed and changing fairly promptly in the morning (even if you wait until after breakfast), then they would be quite clean, presuming you change pyjamas regularly (and don't make a habit of going to public restaurants in them).

And I refuse to believe that most people pee on their pyjamas. < not envy

They probably haven’t stayed in a hotel before and don’t know that this is unacceptable. It shows a lack of respect to others. If they want to have breakfast in their PJs that is what room service is for. The hotel should refuse to serve them until they are dressed.

(It’s like those morons who do the school run in their onesies and slippers. Lazy, lazy, lazy, and entirely lacking in self-discipline).

Totally unacceptable behaviour from lazy slob types. I've seen it occasionally happen at the odd 'upmarket' hotel and yes I judge.

Don't understand why people think this is acceptable. Very common behaviour.

Picking your nose in public is common - doesn't make it any more acceptable!

I would never wear pyjamas on the school run or to a supermarket.
I didn't realise hotel breakfasts were such a taboo, I have collected a takeaway in flip flops and a robe too...

I will be reassessing my behaviour as never realised it offended anyone, and didn't realise it was seen as "unhygienic" then again I don't actually wear my pyjamas to bed, I take them off before I fall asleep and put them on when I get out of bed in the morning. I guess nobody else realises that though.

MN has spoken though...

Nope I wouldn’t, it’s not hard to get dressed is it, if you can’t be arsed then there’s room service

I am an old gimmer and find it hard to accept the 'dress as you want' philosophy as I was brought up with the expectation to look respectable. Or certainly to look clean with clean clothes. Maybe it's related to the cost of clothes, you used to look after your clothes and always had an outfit for best. Maybe now they are so cheap and replaceable that that doesn't matter.
This is a bit like the upper classes sending DCs out with unbrushed hair and mismatched clothes. Maybe society feels that you can be who you want and no one else's opinion matters. Though imv not a very cohesive idea.

It is not common. But those people are!