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?

We've done this, but only when we were on an AI in any case - it just saved us having to drag DD from the Waterpark to eat at lunchtime.

We always take 'doggy bags' from evening meals though - in dog poo bags to feed the dog when we get home . I order bigger steaks than I can eat on purpose

No. Though I admit I did this as a backpacker.

I stayed at a hotel recently where the portion sizes provided at breakfast were ENORMOUS! It seemed such a waste to just leave the food on the plate (it wasn't buffet style, it was served to us), that we made sausage baps/ scrambled egg crossisants to have later in the day. In fact, the owner/ person serving the food knew that we couldn't possibly have eaten all those sausages, laughed, and gave us some tin foil to wrap the butties in.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's theft, but making lunch for the whole family including the dogs isn't really on.

I'm probably more shocked at the amount of food people pile on their plates, though.

When we're in Hawaii I'll usually take a muffin or a banana and eat it strolling round the grounds, but the breakfast staff have encouraged us to, and considering breakfast is 30 dollars pp, I don't feel bad about it. It's certainly no worse than someone piling their plate high with food and then wasting half of it. But taking enough to make lunch with is definitely a step too far!

it's taking the mick.

However say it's only 2 of you and say you took a roll, banana that's not really taking the piss. But some here may disagree.

Eve I ask for doggy bags if the food is yummy and there is too much to eat.

I don't have a dog. I like leftovers.

It's just plain weird, regardless of where you are or how much you've paid to be there!

There are loads of places to eat at Disneyland, unless they've bulldozed half of it since I went. The Disney Village thing was mostly all restaurants. And I remember eating pasta somewhere in Frontierland. Yes it's convenience food, but surely that's what you expect, given that the majority want to spend their day on rides rather than sitting down to a gourmet lunch? I can't really fathom wanting to haul around a bag of food all day, or wanting to eat wilting food that's been hauled around all day since breakfast either.

At Disney and Universal in Florida the amount of restaurants is staggering, and they seemed to cover all types of cuisine at different budgets

Also, there were loads of carts selling drinks and snacks, including tubs of fruit. Some days we skipped breakfast (got to parks for early opening) and ate popcorn and Fruit early for a snack and then had a bigger lunch.

But yes, taking food from any buffet to create a later meal is miserly.

Saw loads of people doing this at the breakfast buffet in euro Disney this Summer. We just went to the local supermarket (mega cheap) and stocked up on a few bits like rolls and cheese, fruit, crisps, cereal bars and carton drinks to keep in our room (we had a little fridge in our room). Cost less than £15 and lasted us all week for snacks and a lunch.

I think it's awful. To pack yourself a lunch is gross - such bad manners.

I'll often take a muffin, pastry and fruit for later, but draw the line at sandwiches!

www.disneylandparis.co.uk/dining/#/disneyland-park,walt-disney-studios-park,disney-village/

That's a fuck of a list for somewhere where apparently you can't get anything other than baguettes and burgers!

If your room rate states 'bed breakfast and help yourself for a packed lunch' you have your answer.

Definitely not ok under any circumstance. Greedy and rude.

It's usually holiday makers from certain other European countries who are the worst offenders in my experience.

One woman on holiday at easter time filled her handbag each time she walked past a chocolate easter egg display meant for the kids.

I wouldn't want my kids growing up to think this is ok, even if it is 'just a piece of fruit or pastry'. If you don't eat your breakfast then it's tough if you're hungry before lunchtime.

If you can afford to stay in a hotel then you can afford to buy a sandwich or snack for lunch in my view. If everybody did this at breakfast the hotel would run out of food before the end of serving time!

Why don't hotels provide an extra service of £2 per person to make a packed lunch.

Is it me?

People saying that they have to stock up because everywhere is so expensive - surely it's so expensive because the wholesale theft of food and other items means they put their prices up to cover?

Just like shops do because of shoplifters.

Piper some do do this. Or supply a packed lunch at extra cost.

Some people behave appallingly at all you can eat buffet places. I've seen someone take about 20 spring rolls on a plate at a Chinese once and then left around 18 of them uneaten. They'd all have go go in the bin, disgusting waste of good food and totally unnecessary.

A muffin, pastry or piece of fruit = ok in my ethical framework.

Making up a sandwich = not ok.

^ This.

I have often taken a piece of fruit for mid morning, but I justify this by the fact that I only have coffee for breakfast.

We go on all inclusive holidays every year and despite there always being lots of food available 24/7 throughout the hotels I can't count how many times I have seen people taking extra food in the buffet restaurants and putting it into handbags and pockets.
It's not thef, it's just greed, IMO.

I wonder if the Toby Carvery customers take doggy bags with them. Seeing those piled up plates makes me heave. They can't possibly eat all that lot, can they?