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 a hotel breakfast !
I start off with fruit compote /fruit salad sometimes with yogurt then well done sausage and bacon , hashbrowns and grilled tomatoes , a fried egg that i eat last on a piece of toast with salt and black pepper , then if i have room another slice of toast .
I wouldn't dream of eating this at any other time but everything looks and tastes so nice on a breakfast buffet .
After this i don't eat a thing until dinner .

I’m just outside of Glasgow. I’m going to have to try their breakfast now.

Fruit salad and salmon.

I like holidays in Germany where they have chocolate cake for breakfast! THAT'S what I'm talking about!!

Fruit...love having so much variety and all pre prepped.

We've just got back from Austria and the hotel breakfast was superb. As you'd expect it was German style - fabulous bread rolls, cheese, cold meats, yogurt, fruit, muesli, eggs, jams, honey, pastries, cake.

The conveyor belt style toasters. Toast never tastes nicer than when done on those imho. Even if you get some where you have to put the bread though twice before it’s right.

My grandmother is notoriously fussy with restaurants and you can guarantee that if everyone else was impressed she’d have something bad to say, so colour us surprised when we went to Poland and she absolutely loved our hotel breakfast they had everything, continental options as well as cooked options and my grandmothers absolutely loved that they had panna cotta.

Hash browns! And juice! And little warm pastries with Nutella!

Really? I’m not sure I’ve ever had the patience to join the queue while people feed their bread through twice.

just about everything else about good hotel breakfasts is good, there’s usually so much choice especially now more places are doing good yogurt/fruit/nuts. A bit of that followed by eggs Benedict with bacon or scrambled eggs with smoked salmon suits me.

worst thing (apart from the toasters) is tea just about anywhere outside Britain (and I assume Ireland). What is the point of a huge selection of fancy ‘teas’ if you have to make it yourself with insufficiently hot water?

At a hotel in Paris there was a very nice chef who made an omelette for you how you wanted it. That was the best bit of the breakfast!

Apart from that I like toast with real butter. Never have real butter at home so it's a little treat. If they cut it in triangles and bring it to you in a toast rack that's even better than the conveyor toasters with their dire warnings not to toast croissants.

At a reasonably fancy hotel in Portugal they had the most amazing fresh, tiny, Portuguese custard tarts. Made with still just as flaky but thinner pastry than regular sized tarts so the proportions were still right. I still think about them sometimes, and would rebook the hotel just for the breakfast!

I used the work in a chain hotel the 'fresh pastries' are fresh from the freezer at 6am, the bread is also defrosted and put out at the same time. The fancy juices are from a carton - I was in charge of breakfasts

You must - it was absolutely amazing.

I will ty. I assume that it was the full Scottish breakfast that you had?

Probably breakfast at any 5* hotel in India. They cover all English cooked breakfast bases, amazing pastry selections, cakes, cereals, nuts, incredible fresh fruit, a huge number of Indian breakfast options, waffle stations, egg stations, granola, dim sum . . cheese, smoked salmon, fresh juices, even ice cream sometimes. Just amazing! I am yet to find anything to beat it . . . Yum!!!!

Depends where I am. I love tropical hotel breakfasts with acres of fresh, exciting fruits, cold meats and an omelette station. Back home, it's got to be a massive full English including black pudding, fried bread and everything crisp around the edges.

I used to like a French breakfast with lots of lovely pastries, hot chocolate or a bowl of chicory coffee, but can't eat dairy now so I'm stuffed on that front 😢

Really thick yogurt, I love it!

Also why does apple juice in hotels taste so much better than any I have ever bought to drink at home? It's probably mass-produced, full of sugar and I don't have an elegant palate! I'm totally going out for a fruit juice now... I want an apple, strawberry, mint and lemon Kickstart from Wagas...

I can cook a five course meal but I can’t master pancakes so for me it’s the fresh, fluffy pancakes with loads of Nutella/honey/fruit.

It's straight out a carton and chilled that's the only difference

See that's what I do at home too, it just doesn't taste the same. As I said, probably mass-produced and sugar-laden... no wonder it tastes good!!

It's the cheapest of the cheap juice you can buy, or was in our BIG name hotel, I think it's being somewhere different makes it taste totally different different glasses and surroundings etc

Was this the Phoenicia ?

I really like a made-to-order omelette, I even love just watching them make it. One in Jordan was making 8 at a time, taking the order, making them and handing it to the correct person. One hotel in Samarkand had a pancake roll stuffed with a firm cream cheese and honey, I had it every morning that we were there, I haven't tasted anything like it anywhere else.