Pyjamas at hotel breakfast

[flyingpigsinclover]

We were staying overnight in a hotel last night (after a small domestic emergency so had left the house in a hurry), over breakfast this morning a family of five came down for breakfast with all the children in pyjamas and dressing gowns and barefoot. they were aged about eight to fifteen or so.

Aibu to think that this is not really acceptable?

Temps - Well it turns out that maybe I'm the slob because there is no way in high hell that I would be washing 4 kids before breakfast every day. The only part of your routine that I would do is help the kid with eczema. The daughter with the long curly hair - if she insists on keeping it long I'd suggest she learns to sort out her own curls or I would suggest a nice shoulder length bob! It sounds like you've made your mornings much harder than they need to be but then maybe I'm just a slobby mum

It doesn't follow that nobody else should find other people's smelly trotters offensive when they're eating.

As someone else pointed out, so no flip flops or sandals allowed either?

People who kick their thongs off under that table - do they suddenly Breach Etiquette?

God, ok, tempstamos!
Most people wash their kids every day. Not everybody does the full routine in the morning. You're intent on derailing the thread in your insistence that the pyjama wearers would have collapsed from lack of sustenance had they done their morning ablutions before breakfast.
Despite the fact that everybody else appears to have managed it.

Why would you assume everybody in the hotel were staying there due to a kitchen fire, Ostentatios? Bit of a stretch.

@Lethaldrizzle

Like I have already said I don’t do it before breakfast, they all eat breakfast in their Pyjamas and then they are washed and dressed.
So you wouldn’t be helping the 3 and 4 year olds also?
She doesn’t want a bob, I help her because she is my child and it is a lot quicker and easier for me to dry her hair.

I've seen it before, perhaps some people think it's acceptable

Sandals are fine. Thongs are treading the line a bit, but at least they have soles so the feet are not in contact with everything else

Fgs, tempstamos, start your own thread about the difficulties of steam-cleaning six children before breakfast. This is getting boring!

What do people think is poor etiquette in a hotel, then? Should one be able to go to dinner in pjs? Sit in the bar in a dressing gown? A hotel is not one's own home, and therefore different behaviour surely applies?

Dn is a hotel manager and she recently mentioned a guest who had to be stopped after taking their dinner and eating in on their lap in front of the television in the foyer. But surely according to some on here that would be fine as eating on a lap is quite normal at home.

But you said it was the sight of ‘smelly trotters’. They are still as visible and just as (allegedly) smelly. What does a layer of rubber between the sole of the foot and the floor have to do with it? Or is it the sight of the sole that offends? Not the upper toes?

I really feel for all these people inhabiting MN who are so grossly offended by the human body. Life must be terribly unpleasant for them, surrounded by ghastly smells of people who haven't showered in the past 5 minutes and changed their sheets that night, who dare to reveal that they have feet and whose clothes haven't been changed in the past hour.

Thongs are treading the line a bit, but at least they have soles so the feet are not in contact with everything else

Why is it a problem that they are in contact with the floor?

I wouldn't want to walk barefoot myself, not in a breakfast area, but I don't see how it would make it worse for anyone else.

And what expat said.

Temps - I would help the young ones get dressed of course but absolutely no need to wash them before breakfast in a hotel unless theyve had an accident in the night. The daughter with the long hair - I definitely draw the line. I have done with my own. I hugely discourage long hair because it's a huge effort to look after and don't even get me started on lice control. So I cut my girls hair - my life is too short to be conditioning an 8 year olds curls every morning.

Consensus - it is more than reasonable to expect adults and older children to be dressed in public. We understand sometimes with young toddlers needs must sometimes.

Temps - but you don't understand how impossible it is to get children fed and dressed

I wouldn’t wear pjs to hotel breakfast. I’d be a bit judgey of anyone who did, though I’m not sure exactly what it is I would find unacceptable. It certainly wouldn’t be because the pjs would be dirty or the bare feet smelly though.

Ha ha , I just read thongs and thought who'd throw their knickers under the table - 😄

@MaisyPops What? I understand that it is difficult to get children dressed, especially if they are hungry. Which is je I would let them eat breakfast (wherever we are) in their Pyjamas.

Not at all greyhound. Just in this paticular instance, going from the info given by OP.

@Lethaldrizzle

But I wouldn’t be washing them before breakfast in a hotel. I would be taking them to eat in their Pyjamas and then I would wash and dress them.

A lot of people were put in hotels after Grenfell, though I suspect the wonderful and caring Kensington Council has moved them into the budget end of budget hotels by now - I know a lot of them are still without permanent accommodation

That's my point temp.
Your mainreason for saying it is acceptable to be out in public in pyjamas is brcause apparently its so difficult to get dressed

I wouldn’t wear pjs to hotel breakfast. I’d be a bit judgey of anyone who did, though I’m not sure exactly what it is I would find unacceptable. It certainly wouldn’t be because the pjs would be dirty or the bare feet smelly though.

See, that's what a sensible post looks like.

The rest is just hilarious.

@MaisyPops

I do think it would be acceptable for me to bring my children to breakfast in a hotel in their Pyjamas and I would do that. Firstly I would do if because it is easier for me to feed and then wash/dress them, because they are hungry first thing and they may spill their breakfast on them but I also don’t see what is so offensive and disgusting about seeing children in Pyjamas?

Interesting...