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?

I can only see little squares.

Eugh I wouldn’t be impressed to be honest

I was going for a rofl emoji @Lweji god hope you didn’t think I was making rude gestures at you

Bit odd but Depends on type of hotel and how obviously they were pyjamas. Onesies ok I think - could they have been swimming?

It's skanky. I love the way everyone piles in to ask "were you actually AFFECTED by this in any way?". You can almost hear the schoolmarm tone, and see the pursed lips...

Very few people only notice the world around them in the ways it directly affects them . Otherwise you'd be walking / driving down the street with your eyes shut.

Agree it depends on the hotel - although I'm sure the staff or guests anywhere want to see bare feet.

I would be furious if I had a weekend away and saw slobs like this at breakfast. Posters going on about "little ones" and "being hungry" and "spilling things" - I'm sure no one objects to a toddler in a pair of pyjamas. But in the OP it says the children were between 8 and 15. That's either "showy-offy" as in "we're all so bohemian, we don't care for social rules or other people's sensibilities" or they were complete slobs and the breakfast manager should have told them to return when they were suitably attired.

@PandorasXbox

If pjs are so bad because they've been slept in, why is it not so bad that people can get up, get dressed, got to work, go for a drink and then, some 13/14 hours after putting on the clothes and doing all that, go to eat somewhere? If sleeping clothes are grim, surely day clothes are just as grim? Where is the difference?

You can almost hear the schoolmarm tone, and see the pursed lips...

You certainly can in the comments about it being 'common', 'disrespectful', 'not acceptable in a normal civilised society' and only done by 'a certain type'.

Those emojis are showing as fish on mine! (Desktop version on Chrome).

@eyeballpaul
No, I didn't assume any rude gestures. But I was curious to see what it was. :)

Maybe they just don't care about random strangers judging them on the internet

Adults - verging on unacceptable but probably just a bit slobbish. Children- absolutely fine in my view.

Because Scottish -pyjamas are practically like wearing underwear. That's how I feel at any rate. I can barely put the bins out in mine! I just don't want people to see what I look like in bed and I don't want to see what strangers look like in bed. Just get dressed!

It was a family of 5, so 3 kids. Premier Inn family room is for 5. Only 1 bathroom. What I can't believe is that you'd wait until everyone is showered to go and eat breakfast with 3 kids. DD2 takes forever in the shower so she showers at night.

TBH I would be most confused by the fact the parents had time to get dressed but all of the kids managed to put on their dressing gown but none had a second to put on any kind of footwear and their parents didn't insist that they put any on before leaving their room.

I very much doubt that it was a "domestic emergency where they left with only the clothes on their back" because all of the kids managed to grab a dressing gown but no clothes/shoes yet the parents managed to be fully dressed ... it is implausible for such "uniformity" to have happened in an emergency. The fact that all three children were dressed the same also suggests that it was more of a choice than necessity - I don't know of many teenagers who would wear their PJs and dressing gown out in public, especially when with family who are also dressed similarly, and most people would automatically make sure they had footwear when going into a public space, which is any area outside of your bedroom when it comes to a hotel, both for hygiene (floors could be dirty etc) and safety (In a restaurant there's hot food/drinks that could be dropped causing burns, drinks that could be spilled and cause a slip hazard, glassware and crockery that can get knocked off tables and leave tiny splinters of glass/porcelain on the floor to be stood on, tables to stub toes on etc) reasons

The PJs probably wouldn't have even registered if they weren't wearing dressing gowns too - my PJs are thin cotton pants and a vest top or loose t-shirt, throw on a pair of flipflops or ballet flats and I'm basically wearing the same outfit as my "dossing around the house uniform" of thin cotton pants/leggings and a top. Nobody would be able to definitively tell they were PJs if I just wore them to breakfast but if I put a big fluffy dressing gown on then it is immediately obvious I'm in my PJs and not just casual clothes.

As pointed out earlier, maybe they had an emergency and had no other clothes yet...

Very recently, I had a suitcase delay when travelling. So, I had to show up the next day in exactly the same clothes I was wearing the day before when I arrived at the hotel.
I had to wash my top overnight, but nobody would know.
And had to sleep in just my knickers. If I had slept in my jeans (as I wrote before) nobody would have bat an eyelid or noticed.

I very much doubt that it was a "domestic emergency where they left with only the clothes on their back" because all of the kids managed to grab a dressing gown but no clothes/shoes yet the parents managed to be fully dressed ... it is implausible for such "uniformity" to have happened in an emergency.

It's very easy and as I explained in a previous post.

Children usually go to bed before their parents. They could already be in their pjs and grabbed their evening gowns, while the parents were still in day clothes.

Young children (say under 7) then i wouldn't be too bothered. Sometimes it's just easier.

Older childreb and adults should know better. Pyjamas are in the house clothes.
Unless you've had to go to A&E, have gone into labour or another emergency then there's no reason I can think of for adults to be outside in pyjamas. It's just laziness.

I've got to laugh at the pressing of them leaving their house in an emergency in PJs only firstly, what are the chances compared to them being lazy beggars (low) and even so in the slim chance they did flee a flaming house, they're not just going to remain in the PJs forever are they?

"practically like wearing underwear"

Again I shall reply in this thread with the word Leggings.......

Half the time a bit see through, other times too small inserting themselves every which way.

And some people do wear underwear with pjs. Odd I know but its true.

Children usually go to bed before their parents. They could already be in their pjs and grabbed their evening gowns, while the parents were still in day clothes.

I could get on board with that if the children were all young and so would be in bed early, but they were 8-15 ... my 15 year old cousin is often the last one up at night, and by that late in the evening (as I'd assume this was if all the kids were in bed) I am in my PJs even if I'm not in bed. Also in an emergency, for all three of the children to have grabbed their dressing gown and nothing else would be very impressive as a universal reaction under pressure to get out of the house and if they had longer to leave, eg a water pipe leak that makes the place unlivable but you have time to grab a change of clothes and a hoodie as well as the PJs you're in

Its lazy and slobby but if that's what they are teaching there kids then fair enough, wouldn't bother me. An adult in pj's would but not kids.

@sherbetpips

In what way is it lazy and slobby?

My kids are hungry when they wake up they should be allowed to eat breakfast and then I will spend 2-3 hours showering and dressing them all.

Bloody mingling.

It is lazy and slobby. It takes 3 secs to throw on some clothes.