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?

Eh. Not something I'd do myself, but not something I'd massively care about. Not like they're trying to pull my shoes off at the breakfast table.

Just yuk

It’s more grim when you think people might then get back into bed in the pjs which have been all round the communal areas of the hotel.

What? This might be antisocial, maybe, but why is it unhygienic?

YABU
It's a hotel! Personally I think they should have worn shoes but I don't see an issue with pyjamas and dressing gowns at all

@MsHarry....why would you brush your teeth before breakfast?
Minty fried eggs? Yum

It's rather 'Look at me, look how chilled and laid back I am, as opposed to all you uptight twats in your clothes and shoes and everything.'

But then I was the sort who always used to make sure DD had a clean face and hands, brushed hair and a clean outfit on before going to a party

It's rather 'Look at me, look how chilled and laid back I am, as opposed to all you uptight twats in your clothes and shoes and everything.'

Dear God, project much?

I don't think they were trying to send any sort of message to anyone else. I think they just couldn't be bothered getting dressed. Christ, do you always go around thinking everyone makes their sartorial choices based on secret codes to convey their superiority? This is nuts.

Eeeeew. So very, very low.

Awful. As the dc were still in pjs would assume they hadn't washed either. And, with bare feet totally unacceptable. Toddlers in highchairs okay but for the rest just laziness and total lack of respect for other people to turn up as just couldn't be bothered to organise family apart from teenagers who shouldn't need to be told. Would have walked out of dining room afraid and complained to hotel.

Yes Yorick yes, yes I do

Room service usually costs.

Would it be acceptable to go into a restaurant for lunch in pyjamas?

Most of us would think not.
Most people think you should be dressed to go to the shops and the school ru, but some think pjs are okay for these activities.

Breakfast in a hotel is not the same as at home. It is a public place. It is for this reason, rather than the time of day or fact the people might have been in bed before the breakfast that means they should be dressed.

Other people might travel to work direct from being in bed. It wouldn't be okay for them to travel in PJs on public transport and then get changed (or remain in pjs al day) at work.

In my view PJs are fine in the home for as long as wanted - but they are for private wearing, not public wearing. Whenever there ar members of the public around that you don't know or might encounter, you should be dressed.

sarahrelly, you’re actually supposed to brush your teeth before you eat. Eating softens enamel (acids), so when you brush after eating you are brushing away your softened enamel. If you brush after eating, you should leave your enamel time to reharden.

Plus, going down into a public dining room with morning dog breath is bloody minging.

All the stuff about having washed or not, teeth brushing, if in a rush are a red herring. PJs are for wearing in private (any time of day fine, washed or unwashed, teeth brushed or unbrushed) but they are not for wearing in public at any time of day.

Having to answer the door at home whilst wearing them is fine, but deliberately going into a public space in them isn't. The people in the hotel confused the fact that they might eat breakfast at home in pjs with the fact they were now in a public dining room/restaurant. They wouldn't go out for lunch or dinner to a public restaurant in pjs, so shouldn't at breakfast either.

Maybe they had a larger domestic emergency and only had the pjs?

Agree with Manicmij there - whatever happened to those good old things called manners? YANU at all xx

Duck how long does it take for the enamel to reharden?

Ds has awful teeth and I have been carrying around his toothbrush and paste with me to brush religiously straight after eating. I thought that was the right thing to do.

At least 30 mins after food seems to be the general advice, secret

Thanks Duck. I had no idea. Ds has had 7 trips to the dentist this past year, and we never discussed brushing timings.

Off to research further....

Yes Yorick yes, yes I do smile

I could tell. Christ on a bike. The secret messages you think you're being sent because a random family was slightly slovenly. What is a mum in jeans and trainers communicating to you personally? A hipster with a silly beard?

It's a wonder you haven't collapsed with all the sensory overload of all the messages being directed at you from everyone you pass. Might actually be tin hat time.

Slothernly and unnecessary. Just get dressed.
I am surprised the hotel didn't restrict this. I would expect them to.

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I normally only take on pair of pjs for us when away for a few days so they don't wear them to breakfast for that reason but I do normally take them down in yesterday's clothes and then put clean on for that day after they have eaten. In fact I will do the same for myself too as they are bound to put sticky hands on me at some point whilst eating !
When we stay self catering we will have breakfast in our pjs without thinking about it as it's what we do at home