Breakfast at Budapest Hotel for 31EUR each? Am I misunderstanding this?

[datcherygrateful]

I've booked to go with my partner to stay at The Corinthia Hotel in Budapest in a couple of months and had not booked breakfast, so emailed to see if we can add it on. I had an email back to say

Let me kindly inform you that we can add the breakfast for EUR 31,-/person/occassion for breakfast. Should you decide to add breakfast to your reservation, please do not hesitate to contact us so that we can assist you accordingly.

I think I'm sounding thick here but 31EUR per person per day is a bit steep no?Am I misunderstanding this? typically when I book a room say on booking.com and add breakfast it's per stay, not per day?

Anyone stay at this hotel to corroborate?

Probably is right, I stayed in Cork recently and they wanted £100 a day to add breakfast (2 adults 2 kids)! We went to a local cafe or McDonald's instead!

That is a completely normal price for a half decent hotel - I just stayed at one in Munich that charged €30. And many, many British hotels will charge £30. I guess the OP hasn't travelled much in recent years.....

Eat out for breakfast if you don't want to pay it!

I don't know anything about hotel prices but we've just come back from Budapest and found it pretty cheap TBH. We had an apartment so didn't eat breakfast out but eg evening meals we ate at a couple of the cafes in the Jewish quarter and they were around £10 for three course traditional Hungarian meal or as a single course burger / pizza for similar . Drinks cheap too .

Also just checking you are aware that Hungary's currency is the HUF rather than Euro although you could probably manage without cash .

Standard hotel price for breakfast at almost any half decent hotel in my experience. And that is a 5 star hotel.

If you want cheap, there is probably a cafe round the corner somewhere.

@datcherygrateful some pics

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That’s pretty standard. It’s mostly likely a buffet breakfast

Great thank you for all you're replies- I think we may go for one day but eat at cafes the other days.

@BeaRF75 TBF we usually airbnb and not stay at hotels. But this is a treat so we went for this hotel.

Yup, it was £22 per person at the Kimpton Clocktower in Manchester last week. Lovely breakfast but still. We didn’t pay for it though as it was included as DH is an IHG member and used loyalty points

Hey OP, It was €25 at the Intercontinental Budapest two weeks ago, and that was an amazing breakfast, was lovely to try Arabic breakfast foods and all the different breads as well as traditional continental and English breakfasts and fancy fruit. Still wouldn’t pay that for a breakfast though. Loyalty points paid for it again.

Budapest is chock-full of amazing cafes.

Sadly that price is typical for a posh hotel breakfast.

We never book hotel breakfast anymore after paying upfront for an expensive and not great breakfast every day in Salzburg, then walking past Cafe Sacher every day who had a gorgeous breakfast for less money.

Hotel breakfast is usually stupidly expensive. We find a nearby cafe, it's cheaper and you're not time restricted.

yeah that's a lot for breakfast, even if it is a buffet,
definitely go out for breakfast, Budapest is a lovely city

I never have the hotel breakfast. It's always silly money. And I think it's much nicer to wander to a cafe to have it each morning

It's about £15 to add on breakfast at a really average hotel in the UK so that sounds about right to me!

Yes buying breakfast as an add-on after booking is normally crazy priced in a lot of City Centre Hotels. I tend not to go for hotel breakfasts unless they are included at little to no cost. I prefer to spend the money on lunch.

@datcherygrateful just read the reviews!! 15 minute queue to get an egg made! have brekkie elsewhere!

I’ve stayed here albeit years ago. The breakfast is LOVELY with champagne etc but it’s not an expensive place and so we definitely paid nothing near that!

We love hôtel breakfast; everyone can have what they want, you can have unlimited coffee or juice (I am always so thirsty in the morning, especially after air-con or stuffy air in hôtel and on a plane), and you can try new things. Also it fills you up ready for sightseeing, walking, being outdoors. So nice and relaxing to go to bed and then wake up knowing that everything for breakfast is just waiting for you, whenever you want it.

31 Euros in a 4 or 5 star hôtel sounds about market rate, as long as it's nice!

To be fair it is described as a superb breakfast 😂.
Once, on a trip to a swanky hotel in HK, made the error of thinking for some odd reason that breakfast had been included in the price. Nope. Went down and had an amazing brekky. Didn’t make that mistake in the second day tho 😮

It was similar when we went to Venice last autumn. We just bought fruit and yogurts and ate. I had a banana each morning. Then we went for an early lunch.

That's a proper piss take.

You wonder if hotels just think of a figure and double it on the assumption that x% of guests will just blithely stick it on the company amex.

We stayed at the Corinthia Budapest several years ago. The breakfast buffet had everything you can think of and then some. Plus cooked to order dishes, stuff like eggs Benedict etc. My husband says it wasn't so much a breakfast as a banquet. But you need to be really, really hungry to make the most of it. And, whilst we are extremely greedy, even we couldn't indulge enough to do it justice. Had we done so, we would only have been able to waddle back to our room for a lay down, sightseeing or spa visiting would have been way too much effort! And the champagne is Hungarian, not French, so not quite the same, though it goes down very nicely with orange juice.

Sounds about right it is about €40 at the Disneyland hotel .

If it's Champagne, it's French. If it's sparkling wine, it's Hungarian (pezsgő, habzó, etc. - some very nice wines) or from elsewhere.