To take food into hotel room.

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The restaurant is awfully expensive for food and drinks every evening for two adults and two kids. We're staying 7 days and have eaten out some evenings.

Totally fine.

I’ve done it. Just be subtle and don’t leave a mess.

Yep I’ve done that a million times. It’s quite normal.

Of course! Why would you think you can't?!

I’ve done it loads of times. As someone has already said, just don’t leave a mess.

I do it most of the time

Even had ‘many’ deliveries , delivered to the reception

Its allowed, no reason to be discreet, your not doing anything wrong

I do housekeeping sometimes. We find lots of empty pizza boxes and takeaway cartons when we tidy up.
It will be totally fine.

Totally fine. I used to work in a hotel and sometimes guests would order from the local curry houses. I'd go get crockery and napkins for them, because it's going to be easier to clear up with them than without.i used to also say "put it outside the room when you are done and I'll get rid of it at the end if my shift"

Tastier and cheaper than the boil in the bag options on the night menu.

Of course yanbu. It's fine!

I went out tonight then went to the bar to pick up meals for the kids. Felt a bit conspicuous with my carrier bag of food!

Of course you can. We even have dominoes delivered to the hotel lobby.

Stayed in a hotel recently that has signs up saying only alcohol purchased from the bar was to be consumed on premises - they can ask but no one will listen

We always take food with us to hotels. In fact, we're really uncool and take an entire cool box sometimes, filled with nice food and wine. I'm paying to stay in a hotel room, not to be forced to eat in their restaurants. Our cool box is electric, so keeps food/wine nice and cold. Never been an issue, reception has certainly never asked us what we think we're doing taking a cool box into our room. I recommend if!

We also take plates, cutlery and glasses. We're very well prepared!

You're allowed.... Don't hide anything.

I always buy a few things for hotel room even if eating out every meal. It's essential to have some snacks and drinks (not going to pay for that overpriced garbage in mini bar).

Yep, no problems. We have a hotel picnic - or get take away food and bring it back. We have a plug in cool box, and a picnic bag stocked with cutlery and crockery - and wine glasses

We've had Uber eats deliver to our hotel rooms

Always have. In fact a few times in naice hotels we've asked them to clear out the fridge if there's a mini bar so we can put our own stuff in and they've always obliged

This is extremely normal behaviour so nothing to be ashamed about. The restaurant isn't open exclusively to guests either I imagine, it just happens to be part of the same building.

@DriveMeCrazy1974

We always take food with us to hotels. In fact, we're really uncool and take an entire cool box sometimes, filled with nice food and wine. I'm paying to stay in a hotel room, not to be forced to eat in their restaurants. Our cool box is electric, so keeps food/wine nice and cold. Never been an issue, reception has certainly never asked us what we think we're doing taking a cool box into our room. I recommend if!

Tell me more about the electric cool box

As others have said, we've always done this. Just don't leave a mess for the room staff to clear up (but you wouldn't anyway!).

We stayed at a Holiday Inn at the end of May and because of the Covid restrictions in place they didn't have their restaurant open - they had information in the rooms about how to order in take-aways!

We do it all the time! (Although we did come to regret the Camembert on a French holiday one year..). It’s absolutely fine - I worked as a room attendant when I was a student approximately 150 years ago and people did it then too. Just bag the rubbish as you’d do anyway, it’ll be taken away with the rest of the rubbish.

I used to have to spend 5/6 days at once in a hotel for work, expenses were not great in that city and eating out was very expensive so you had a choice of BurgerKjng for dinner every night or going to the supermarket and getting some nice cheese, bread and ham...in fact, my relatively decent collection of Victorinox kitchen knives is as a result of getting them in the supermarket over various trips. (They weren't available here at that time).

We usually bring nice fruit and crisps when having a weekend break, and a bottle of bubbles, at the very least. It's supposed to be a nice break for us, So we want nice things to enjoy. And often there are not those nice choices in the hotel itself.

Don't cause a problem and there won't be a problem. Leave the room clean and tidy, and there's nothing to worry about.

@DriveMeCrazy1974 electric cool box?! Please tell me more...