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?

The gap between pjs and leggings is minimal. Never understood why one is acceptable and the other is not.

I don't think you have to be a snob, or 'uptight' to think this is unacceptable or odd. Coming down to breakfast in a hotel in your pyjamas and nightdress and barefoot is not good etiquette IMO. And being barefoot is gross. I don't want to see some strangers bunions and corns when I'm eating my bloody cornflakes FFS.

As someone said, they must have just rolled out of bed without even showering or cleaning their teeth or changing their clothes or ANYthing. Gross. I bet they stunk.

Any hotel I have ever been in would never have allowed that, and would have told them to go get dressed and make themselves decent. This must have been a very low budget hotel.

I do agree also that it reeks of people with no class or decorum, and it is only a certain type who would behave this way. Tell me to piss off, (as a poster said to someone earlier in the thread,) or say I'm a snob; I really don't care. This behaviour is not acceptable in a normal civilised society. As someone said, these parents are bringing up their children with very bad manners, and making them think it's OK to behave like a slob.

Laughing out loud at the people who think this behaviour is OK, slagging off the posters who think it isn't OK. They seem quite irritated that posters are saying it's 'common' and gross and grim.

Seems some people may have hit a raw nerve!

What if they had a slightly bigger domestic emergency and had to leave in slightly more than a hurry?
Or what if they hadn’t received the breakfast dress code that you had sent out to all the hotel customers before your arrival?
What if you worried about dressing your own kids rather than someone else’s?

I would not care about the floor being cold, I think bare feet is unsafe for older kids because of the possibility of spilt tea/coffee, fat/food on the floor. It is much safer in a dining room to have some sort of footwear on. But the rest so what.

We often go away for city breaks and would drag on jeans/jumper for breakfast, but other than a quick face wash and hair brush would also be “grim and dirty”. After breakfast we’d shower and get ready.

The most annoying thing about breakfast in hotels is that you have to properly wake up, wash up and get dressed before getting any food in.

Maybe they are not used to hotels or don't give a hoot.

I think its horrible, Would you like the chef to prepare your food wearing his PJs. Think of all those nice bits of human dryed skin and hair falling away into the dish. I know this is not the same but justing thinking about what could be on the clothes.

Why are you explaining your own circumstances OP?

It was you wasn't it?

I have to say that I'm finding all the outraged posts very funny.

I'd find it odd, but it's not as if they came down (or up) straight from the sewers.

No, not my children. We were in the hotel after a small kitchen fire meant the house was full of smoke. We grabbed a bag after I put the fire out and got out. If they were also there after a fire then good luck to them. We were dressed for breakfast in daytime clothes.

Oh and it was an hour before the end of breakfast.

They might have left their home in an emergency. I wouldn't judge personally.

I just don't know why they'd do it at that age. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest. I just don't see the point unless, as has been mooted, they had a disaster the night before that involved not having any decent clothes to wear. It's the teenager that puzzles me. Neither of my dds would have been happy to wander around a hotel restaurant in pjs and barefoot at that age. I stay in hotels 4/5 days a month and I've never seen anyone in nightwear. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

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.

Same here. I always pack track suit bottoms or leggings. Throw them on to go down to breakfast, then shower afterwards.
I have seen people very occasionally! maybe twice, at breakfast in hotels, in pyjamas. I didn't think much about it one way or the other, tbh.
Bare feet - I think the floor would be very cold, and there are likely to be spillages so they should at least put on their slippers!

It could have been that the parents were caught out still in day clothes (and slept in them...) and the children in bed.
With no time to grab a bag.

It's getting very common to see it in US hotels, especially the (few) ones that offer some sort of complimentary breakfast for some reason. Totally fine with small kids who might spill stuff but a complete affectation for anyone over eight IMHO. The difference between pjs and leggings is that you don't sleep in leggings. And bare feet yuk - how long does it take to put a pair of trainers on?

This behaviour is not acceptable in a normal civilised society.

Are we talking about a pair of PJs or shitting in the cereal buffet?

The gap between pjs and leggings is minimal. Never understood why one is acceptable and the other is not.

Because you don’t sleep all night in your leggings

Because you don’t sleep all night in your leggings

And what happens during the night that makes pj trousers so dirty?

Leggings after a day out and about will be much dirtier than pjs after one night in bed.

@PandorasXbox

My Dd often sleeps in leggings, if we went for breakfast you would be none the wiser that she was wearing her pyjamas. And it wouldn’t cause you any harm regardless.

I would be hoiking those judgy pants up, I'm afraid.

Meh, can't see the big deal really.

Well ok tempstamos, wearing any clothes to sleep in and then wear them for going down to breakfast is grim.

@Lweji Oh no! What is wrong with kids shopping in pyjamas now?

I once commented about this. I was staying in a Premier Inn in Euston and a child aged about 10,her mother and her grandmother were eating breakfast in the restaurant in their pyjamas.

Not much phases me but I was pretty shocked by it. Mentioned it on MN and got my arse handed to me on a plate.

To me there are public spaces and private spaces and pjs are for private spaces.