Question re etiquette

[Pennies]

What is the general thinking on this. If you are staying at a hotel that has a large buffet style breakfast with a huge selection of foods, is it OK to have breakfast and then take enough food for the family to have a packed lunch / picnic thereby saving on buying lunch?

No. How incredibly tacky and low rent.

Ha ha, you're obviously having a bit of a laugh!!

We were encouraged to do this on our french/history trip at school. But I've never done it since but have seen other families taking bags in with them.

Taking the mick...

I agree with carlson but may have hidden away the occasional bread roll or danish

A whole packed lunch for the family would seem like taking the piss a bit a lot

It's bad ettiquette.,

No,of course it isn't.

You saw someone do this rather than did it yourself, right?

Not Ok. (sneaking 2 babybel into your pocket is fine though as a mid morning snack)

Ooh, and taking a tiny heart-shaped marmite just cos they're adorable.

People doing this is why nice hotels have stopped doing the cheap packages. Bizarrely the less they pay for your room, the more entitled they feel they are to behave in this way.

I take a couple of handy snacky things to keep us going until lunch, but definitely not a whole lunch. More like a little wrapped muffin or babybel style cheese each.

Only when you are an impoverished youth, inter-railing on £10 a day, for all accommodation, food and spends

I have actually seen people at the pastries basket wrapping up individual items and shoving them in their bag. It's bloody mortifying. The clue is in the name - breakfast. It's not a fecking all day continental buffet.

We saw it happening. I kid you not this woman took the following:
2 x brioche rolls per person (10 in total)
Ham for the rolls
1 hard boiled egg each
A banana each
A cupcake each

We were in the next table being rather about it but also found her brazenness so funny. DH nearly went over to remind her not to forget the porridge and fried eggs also on offer. It prompted an interesting discussion with the kids as to whether it was ok or not. Oddly, though we then saw the parents (minus the kids) having lunch in the restaurant. We concluded they'd probsbly got sandy buns!

It's really, really not on.

I felt bad enough taking a cup of coffee up to my room from the breakfast buffet (which I'd paid for - well, work had anyway). There's no way I could or would do that.

Not on unless you are at Disneyland

I sat in a hotel dining room recently and happened to see a lady go up to the buffet and absolutely load her plate with bacon and sausages, there must have been a least eight sausages.

I then saw her put all food into a Tupperware box and hide it in her large handbag. She went back to the buffet and helped herself to toast, yogurt etc which she sat down and ate. Even the waitress looked surprised.

I checked out and there in the car park was the same woman feeding her dogs!!!! At least she had the grace to blush.

Hotels are so expensive I don't feel the least bit guilty about taking a roll and cheese from breakfast. I am very discreet though.

Would you take the amount this woman took?

Lol @ slimytoad, that's almost what I was about to say!

At EuroDisney we did this.
The food in the parks is so f-ing pricey and we weren't exactly flush at the time.
We ate loads for breakfast, then stashed rolls, ham and cheese in a bag to make up ham & cheese rolls for late lunch.

I wouldn't under usual circumstances do it, but in that scenario then hell yes!

Theft is theft

I wouldn't say that was theft though tbh.

If you've paid for an 'all you can eat' buffet, then you've paid.

On the other hand, if you went and took stuff when you hadn't paid, that would be theft.

I don't think it's theft, I don't have much of an appetite for breakfast when I've just woken up, can just about manage a bit of toast. So if I breakfast is included in the room rate then I will help myself to a muffin and/or banal or something for mid morning. I will also take a couple of mini mar mites because they're great for camping.
I'm fairly sure that the hotel will still be making a decent profit from me!

Banana not banal!

I don't think it's theft, and the wastage on those buffets is crazy, especially pastries etc. Bit naff if it's more than a bread roll or a satsuma though...

at the front of sausage lady!