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?

That's grim.

That means they've rolled out of bed and straight down to breakfast in the same clothes they've been sweating in all night without washing themselves. Disgusting.

I know some people would just roll out of bed, throw some clothes on and down for breakfast but at least they change their clothes and at least they're not advertising to the world that they're dirty fuckers.

Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

On one hand I think 'It's their bloody holiday'. I work long hours and don't have much time off, so when I do get a chance to go on holiday and have a break I stay in PJs for as long as possible as much as possible. I totally appreciate the desire to feel as relaxed as possible on your hard-earned time off.

On the other I do think it's a bit 'off' to appear in public in a hotel in your PJs, and TBH probably wouldn't feel all that relaxed about doing it myself.

This is why I always go self-catering.

Plus, bare foot? Aren't their feet fucking freezing. I'l be wearing socks and slippers pretty much permanently until at least April now

I don't think you can really judge. They could be the sort of kids you spill everything down them, and they may not have enough spare clothes, so it might be easier for their parents if they allow them to eat in their pyjamas. You have to consider every senario

I have taken toddlers down in their pyjama top rather than them get Nutella or ketchup or other exciting crap from hotel breakfasts on a clean top but we put trousers and shoes on them. At 5 and 4 they now get dressed.

It’s an affectation and a bit ‘look at us’. Same as when they are in Tesco in a dressing gown. I would expect them to be asked to dress before coming into hotel public spaces.

I wish it was the done thing to go to breakfast in your PJs!

Totally grim.

That said.... if I'm staying at a hotel and I'm not leaving until check out (usually 10/11ish) I'll usually go down to breakfast at 8/9am in something relaxed before going for a bath/shower ahead of checking out - so I'll take a pair of leggings and a big jumper which I'll throw on.

I'd then get properly 'dressed' after a bath whilst packing up.

I wouldn't dream of going down in PJs but I'm often sat at a hotel breakfast before I've had a shower and I'm not exactly 'dressed up'.

'Totally grim' is probably a bit strong on reflection! Maybe 'slightly grim'

For children under 10, I think it's fine.

If you've packed light and don't want them to get breakfast over themselves, then it makes sense (if they can't stick their clothes on from the day before).

My GD (nearly 3) puts her pjs on before bed and when she wakes up, but likes to sleep naked.

I think everyone over 10 should get dressed, unless they've packed light (as said) and still have clothes drying on the room radiator.

Unless they smelled, I wouldn't be bothered. Many in here profess to not wash daily/change clothes, so I've learned that being dressed doesn't mean being clean.

Of course it's an affectation, look at me so relaxed on my hols, no rules for me. Idiots. It really takes no effort to put some clothes on - even if it's last night's clothes and you're going back to the room to have a shower after breakfast.

I think they should get dressed. Really pathetic.

How do you know that their house didn’t go up in flames the night before and they were put up in a hotel with only the jammies on their backs?

I personally wouldn’t do it but would feel meh 🤷🏻‍♀️ if I saw someone else do it.

That said.... if I'm staying at a hotel and I'm not leaving until check out (usually 10/11ish) I'll usually go down to breakfast at 8/9am in something relaxed before going for a bath/shower ahead of checking out - so I'll take a pair of leggings and a big jumper which I'll throw on.
I'd then get properly 'dressed' after a bath whilst packing up.

Yes, I think that's standard. Hotel breakfasts see far more leggings/joggers/wet hair/big jumpers than the hotel reception an hour later.

I think pyjamas is pushing it, though. But then in our house we get dressed to go downstairs so pyjamas are kind of intimate and private.

I wouldn't myself but if it was more acceptable I probably would.

my normal routine at a hotel is get up quick change into clothes from the day before and a spray of deodorant then down to breakfast.
Once I'm done it's back upstairs for a shower and clean clothes and get ready for the day seeing the sites or out to a meeting if I'm there for work.

It means I get to feel fool myself that Iv had an extra half hour in bed.

As long as they were decently covered, I wouldn't have a problem. Better than skimpy swim wear. Bare feet seems a bit risky though.

I saw a family in a service station (the posh one with ducks, on the M6) in pjs, slippers and dressing gowns. Not small children - late teens or early twenties.

I think it depends on the hotel and the type of service they offer. smallies in PJs OK but slippers wld be good for their safety if nothing else. 15 a bit old - think I would draw line at 11 ish

We were staying overnight in a hotel last night (after a small domestic emergency so had left the house in a hurry)

OP were these your children? I’m confused to why you’d tell us the above info

Meh. I just chuck on leggings and a jumper but wouldn't bat an eyelid at someone in their pjs. Who cares?

Children really wouldn't bother me. I wish mine would as you can guarantee they will spill something down their clean clothes and as you usually pack light there are no spares! It really wouldn't bother me TBH. Their hotel stay, their choice.

Why not just get breakfast sent to the room if you can’t be bothered to get dressed? I don’t understand!

You never know why this could happen. Me and my daughter have been eating breakfast in a hotel in about pyjamas before because our car broke down in the middle of a 7 hour drive and all of our luggage was in a different car that had left an hour before us.

That is dirty and disrespectful to the other guests.

Young children I could understand but not older ones. I would just think it very strange. Then again I would never go to breakfast in an hotel without having showered and dressed first.