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Pyjamas In Hotels

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CowesTwo · 11/05/2018 22:15

There was a thread recently discussing people wearing pjs in public. We just got back to our hotel and the lift stopped at the floor with the bar, the doors opened and a woman got in wearing pyjamas and slippers and carrying a bottle of wine. She seemed a bit surprised to see us in the lift and we all got off at the same floor. I wouldn’t be brave enough to go to the bar in a hotel dressed like that, but I had to admire her chutzpah. Aibu to think folk should at least throw on some clothes before appearing in public?

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thetriangleisarealinstrument · 11/05/2018 23:01

what time was it? Was it late?
Ive done this when I went on a night out to a city with my friend.... we ran out of bubbly whilst dressing to go out so I just put on my PJs to go to the bar and get some more..... wouldnt think anything of it. And it was quite a fancy hotel... to be fair the bar only had one person in it at the time.
I think just nipping to get something is fair enough especially if its quite late... whod get dressed again just for the sake of five mins?
I wouldnt go into a very crowded very upmarket bar of a hotel in my PJs but when I did it the edge of the bar is sort of out of the inner seating area and into the hotel lobby if you see what I mean... I think many hotels are designed like that so you can just get something quickly from the bar without going deeper into where people are sitting.

southeastdweller · 11/05/2018 23:03

Slovenly behaviour, I think. Not something I would ever do and yes I do judge people who're in their pyjamas when they're having breakfast in hotel restaurants. It's low standards.

BackforGood · 11/05/2018 23:11

Not something I would ever do, and something I would certainly be hoisting my judgey pants at.
PJs are for sleeping in, or watching a bit of TV in the privacy of your own house / room if you've had an early bath, not for wearing 'out'. I'd consider corridors / lifts in a hotel to be 'out'.

OllyBJolly · 11/05/2018 23:18

Was staying in very posh hotel (work) and had forgotten my pyjamas. Who cares - just wore a tshirt. Stayed fully clothed until room service delivered then got comfy to eat and watch telly. Went to put tray outside door and BLAM! door shut behind me and there I am wearing a tshirt and nothing else. Not a long tshirt...

I have never had breakfast/gone to the bar in my PJs.

HarrietSchulenberg · 12/05/2018 01:19

My friend and I once took our children on a seaside minibreak, staying in a huge family room in a large B&B. We had 4 kids under 5 with us and after a day on the beach they were cream crackered and asleep by 7.30, but friend and I desperately needed fancied drinks. I stayed with the children and she nipped downstairs to the bar, coming back up with a bottle of wine. We polished it off fairly quickly and decided to get another, but by this time we were in pyjamas. My turn for the bar so off I trotted. Only the bar was closed, with a big sign pinned to the shutters directing customers to the bar in the hotel next door. So I waltzed out into the night, into the street and up to the hotel next door, resplendent in PJs and slippers. The guests next door were rather more upmarket than us and seemed to have been to something formal, judging by their suited, booted and jewelled attire. There was a fair bit of murmuring as I padded up to the bar, bought the wine and padded out again, wishing the barman a cheery "Goodnight" as I went. If they'd have peeked out of the window they'd have had even more to talk about as I had a sneaky cigarette on the way back next door, clutching the wine to my chest as I went.

Friend and I still snigger about it occasionally.

Eliza9917 · 12/05/2018 01:35

YANBU.

I went out in my pyjamas once. In the car, to the drive-thru. I put a top on over the top I think and a coat and trainers but I spent the entire time worrying about getting in a crash and having to get out of the car.

I'd never do it again. I do g know how ppl walk around the supermarket like it, it's rank.

Ariesgirl1988 · 12/05/2018 01:57

what previous posters have said she's my hero !!!

FrancisUnderwood · 12/05/2018 02:03

Breakfasting in nightwear I'm a hotel? Absolutely not!

Nipping down for wine quickly, absolutely fine.

Ginandplatonic · 12/05/2018 02:10

Pyjamas in public is one of those dichotomous issues like shoes on or off in the house I think, where people are strongly on one side or the other.

Personally I’m in the “hell no” camp (to pyjamas, I’m in the “on” camp for shoes).

infertilitybitch · 12/05/2018 02:17

I'd do that. I'm quite proud of some of my pjs and they probably are nicer than some of my daywear to be fair. I take special ones to hotels.

That said - I probably wouldn't do it in a very posh hotel but travelodge is about my budget and hell yeah.

Also if I'm staying in one I'm far enough away to be unlikely to meet anyone I know and quite happy to offend random strangers by running around them in pjs

Mind you I will also walk to the shop across the road for milk in them before 11am on a weekend so I'm very pj offensive

PeachesPlumsPears · 12/05/2018 02:24

Once saw a lady wearing something similar to this pj shirt/short set walking down a busy CBD street. . She had obviously just bought it - I wondered why the sales assistant didn't tell them (she was with DP) that it was a PJ set .

A lot of people just stared but she looked happy/ delighted - it was a very hot day.

www.google.com.au/search?q=pj+shirt+and+short+set&rlz=1C1FGUR_enAU747AU747&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi27snC__7aAhVprlQKHQs5DF8QsAQI2QE&biw=1280&bih=615#imgrc=i06iHi5eqquspM:

infertilitybitch · 12/05/2018 02:28

The link sends me to a page of nothingness?

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 12/05/2018 02:33

I don't think it's terrible but neither do I don't think it's particularly heroic.

I wouldn't do it in a smaller boutique hotel, but in a big anonymous one? I don't know. Maybe. Probably not. I don't particularly care if someone else does though.

PeachesPlumsPears · 12/05/2018 02:38

Hmm not sure why its not working - hopefully this works.

It was something like this but floral / pink. It was around lunchtime when I saw her so the street mall was very busy.

au.boohoo.com/satin-pj-short-set-with-contrast-piping/NZZ99542.html

Realistica · 12/05/2018 03:03

Room service is ££££s generally

Is it? Surely all half decent hotels would happily send a bottle of wine to your room at the same cost as the bar charges if you just call the lobby? Even if it's not standard, saying no to such a request would be pretty bad customer service.

Realistica · 12/05/2018 03:04

As for wearing PJs to the hotel bar, or even out in public, I really couldn't give a shit what anyone wears anywhere, tbh.

Realistica · 12/05/2018 03:06

Apparently you can wear the same outfit to work, a wedding, and a funeral, but if you go to the corner shop in the same clothes that you wear to bed, there's something terribly wrong with you. [rolleyes]

Uggie · 12/05/2018 05:42

I'm usually ANTI people wandering around in their PJs at hotels. But I rather admire this lady. And the PP who nipped over the road to the posh bar for a bottle of wine for her and her friend.

I've given this too much thought and decided it's different from breakfasting in one's PJs because the nightwear in this instance was presumably clean. Wine Lady was presumably having a lovely time with a friend relaxing in her PJs and hadn't slept in them yet.

Hotel breakfast PJers have presumably slept in them and come downstairs all unwashed. No-one would shower and then put fresh PJs on, surely?

I'm a smoker. Many a time I've had a pre-shower fag outside a Premier Inn wearing as much of yesterday's clothes as will cover me up and no undies. Because in my head this is classier than doing so in pyjamas.

namaste86 · 12/05/2018 06:04

I genuinely felt self conscious the one time I wore my PJs to go from the maternity ward to SCBU to breastfed my newborn after the nurses had told me to go down to get some rest. I had to walk a few mins to the lift, up 2 floors then into SCBU. In the middle of the night. I felt very uncomfortable. First and only time.

So no, I don't agree that PJs in public places. It looks slovenly and dreadful, it takea a couple of mins to throw something on.

LolitaLempicka · 12/05/2018 06:08

I pop to the bar and go to breakfast in my pyjamas in hotels, but I do wear my posh pyjamas in hotels. — not DH’s old t shirts like at home—

LolitaLempicka · 12/05/2018 06:10

Oh and yes they are clean for breakfast Uggie. I don’t sleep in pyjamas, I’m not some kind of savage. 😂

TeisanLap · 12/05/2018 06:13

Sorry but for me that is a definite no, it looks so slovenly/lazy and projects such a poor image. No pyjamas in public areas (unless hospital/fire alarm etc)

True.

TeisanLap · 12/05/2018 06:17

Room service is ££££s generally, plus you have to wait

It would be the same price as buying a bottle at the bar with perhaps a small service charge and it would probably be with you in the same time it took to go to the bar.

OuaisMaisBon · 12/05/2018 06:27

LolitaLempicka - I gather you do know what pyjamas are, according to the OED?
"plural noun

1 A loose-fitting jacket and trousers <strong>for sleeping in</strong>."  (My bold)

Mrskray · 12/05/2018 06:49

Slovenly.

I wouldn’t want to stay in a hotel that condoned that sort of behaviour.

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