What’s the best part of a hotel breakfast?

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Assuming that you like them.

I very rarely eat breakfast as I’m not hungry until around 1pm, sometimes later but I will make the occasional exception for a hotel breakfast.

One of the best I had was in a hotel in Jersey which offered many choices including an entire side of hot smoked salmon. I ate so much of the salmon that I’m surprised that I didn’t die of sodium poisoning.

I’m going away this weekend and curious to see what’s on offer. More often than not I usually just have fruit juice and coffee, occasionally cereal but I still enjoy seeing if they have any interesting options.

For some reason those tiny glasses of fruit juice taste incredible in the morning and the pack of 2 wrapped Weetabix tastes better than it does at home.

So what are your favourite hotel breakfast items and which hotels offer the best?

I love the breakfasts in Germany where they have all sorts of amazing varieties of delicious bread, and huge pots of yummy jam to pile on top. I got addicted to ‘schwartzbrot’, ie black rye bread with black cherry jam.

A hotel in Spain the had a whole side of a large, high-ceilinged room devoted to various kinds of hams, a beautiful display of prepared fruit, everything. Utterly delicious, I could have stayed there all day just grazing.

Hotel breakfasts in Japan where you get fish and rice and all these lovely little nibbly bits to put on the rice, or in the soup...I'm never sure but it usually feels incredibly healthy.

Best bread: Denmark, by quite some way.

I like the little pots of jam, as I can pretend I am a giant.
It's a shame that the teapot is a normal size, as that rather spoils the illusion - for me anyway.

Never the food as I have exactly what I eat at home. It’s the people watching!

Breakfast in the first class of an intercity express train in Germany used to be absolutely fantastic - basket of breads, all the jams and butter, meat and cheese and fruit. Haven't been in a while though.

Oh I love those little menus where you tick boxes. I always hope I am not breaking the rules by ticking multiple boxes per section ...

I remember the porridge at the Caledonian Hotel Edinburgh, 35 years ago. Cream, milk, salt & Heather honey provided, plus berries, nuts & seeds for topping if desired. Their afternoon tea included the instruction to 'simply ask for more sandwiches, cakes, scones or pastries if you are hungry'. I stayed for 3 days & did my best to bankrupt them.

Am very partial to a hotel that does kippers, as I'd never cook them at home (too smelly!).

Love a good Bircher muesli (sometimes get myself organised and do this at home after I've had a hotel run and got used to it).

Mostly though, it's the plates of fruit that someone has done all the prep for, with good yoghurt.

Oh - and hotel toast ... cold before you put butter and marmalade on. Would never eat it like that at home, but it works weirdly well in hotels.

Hash browns are the work of the devil.

Full Irish breakfast for me sans the awful and ubiquitous hash.

Best are full Scottish breakfast including (good quality) square sausage and tattie scones and perfectly cooked scrambled eggs found in better Scottish hotels and great b&bs

I recently had such a good breakfast in the Voco Grand Central in Glasgow that I complemented all the staff and raised it at check out.

The breakfasts were amazing at a hotel we stayed at several times in Malta. They had a huge assortment of cold meats, cheeses, and bread, half a dozen different types of cereal, and around 20 hot options. But the best thing was the unlimited Prosecco - it was lovely sitting outside in the sun eating breakfast on our third glass 😆

I love all the fruits with some nice varieties of yoghurt and honey. My favourite thing about breakfasts long haul or in Mediterranean Europe is the fruit, they just have better produce than us and it tastes amazing. It's also just the variety isn't it, you can literally have anything you want. Start with the fruit, grab a sausage, shovel in some pastries and finish with a freshly made omelette, grab a banana and some mini muffins for the handbag to cover you for lunch. Neck 13 miniature glasses of every juice on offer and go for a long lie down in the sun.

In Ireland, on a cold wet morning I had the creamiest bowl of porridge which contained a tot of Bailey’s. It was delicious and set me up for the day. .

I'm the same as you OP, never eat breakfast but hotels 🤩

The best I ever had was in a hotel in Israel a couple of years ago, I have never seen such an amazing display of different types of fish. I'm salivating like Pavlov's dog now thinking about it 🤤

I like to have a 3 course breakfast starting with cold meats, cheese and fruit followed by a hot breakfast of bacon, sausage, eggs and beans and finishing with something sweet like pancakes and syrup or Nutella. No wonder I come back from holidays a stone heavier.

No cooking or clearing up.

Mixing cereals. Every Single Time

My absolute favourite hotel breakfast was in Dunblane hydro 5 or so years ago. Full Scottish including haggis, which was to die for. Every item was perfectly cooked and amazing quality. I still think about that breakfast regularly.

Hotel toast always tastes better than homemade too and I love the apple and orange juice stations.

I like the pastries with compote on the top

I didn't even go there and I now need to go and have a lie down!

Wow. That sounds epic. I only came on here to say 'poached eggs' and now my mind is blown...

Berlin's hotels do a truly splendid breakfast, an amazing choice.

This, in spades!

Omelette station

I like the ones that have fresh cooking stations, like an omelette station, waffle and pancake station. Selection of cheeses, cold meats and smoked salmon. Fresh bread and pastries. Fresh juices and smoothies.

K+K hotels do an amazing overnight oats thing. Lush.
A hotel on Lake Konstanz where I could eat my body weight in salmon (several types) and my favourite cheese, Alpblumen.
Any hotel serving prosecco or cava at breakfast.