B&B - Is 8am early for breakfast??!

[HoneyFlowers]

I'm currently staying in a small B&B in Cambridgeshire and when I arrived I was asked what time do I need breakfast in the morning. I smiled and said 8am please thinking he'd be delighted it's not early. Man then screws his face up and asks can we do 8:15am? I explained politely that I am here to attend a course and I need to leave before 9am. Man responded that his wife doesn't get out of bed if there's a 7 on the clock so I agreed 8:15am but will need to be a quick breakfast. I then left the house to get dinner up town. When I returned the wife met me for first time and wanted to know who I was, why I'm here, what's the course, where is it, how long to commute there, how long the course is etc etc. When I explained she reluctantly said "Oh we better do breakfast at 8am then", I said thank you and I'll be leaving 8:45am at latest. So following morning I have breakfast and I go back upstairs to put my bag together and I'm tying my shoe laces up at 8:46am and she knocks on room door to ask why have I not left yet?!!!!
Would anyone else find this totally annoying?!

No it's not early. They should definitely be happily offering breakfast at 8am. Earlier than that on a weekday probably.

not early
& if I did need something really early (sixish?), I'd expect them to offer some kind of cold continental breakfast - bread, cheese, ham and a hardboiled egg kind of thing.

Not early at all!

I’d expect breakfast to be available from 7/7.30.

It’s not early, but hotels, B and B can set their own times on anything. So surely you check when stuff is available on booking that accommodation.

It’s not early but the 20 questions and then disturbing you at 8.46 is the worst bit.

I don't call 8am early for breakfast!

I think the lady was rude - especially knocking and pestering you!

Odd behaviour from the wife. She obviously really resents you getting her up early.

If I am staying somewhere for work I sometimes have breakfast at 6 or 7, depending on when the earliest the breakfast is offered. 8 is not early and the room was yours until whenever their checkout time is.

Wow that was rude!!

8.00m is pretty normal after breakfast. I’d say actually pretty late if you then have to go to work etc..
But knocking in your door at 8.46 asking why you haven’t left? Interrogating you as yo what you are up to to decide if breakfast at 8.00am is needed?

In which world are they living?

They are being ridiculous. The 8 am would be early for me as a guest if I had to be up and ready by then. But plenty of these B&Bs serve breakfast from 7 if they have people staying who have an early start. Sounds as if they are running it for their own convenience rather than their guests. They need to be more flexible and considerate.

Owners like this are the reason I would not stay at a b&b!

Definitely review! I’d 100% want to know this if I was staying there! They’re strange!

It's not early. If they stopped serving at 8am then I'd consider it to be early to stop serving. But this way round its totally normal time to serve breakfast.

Send the landlady a message inviting her to go on 'Four in a bed'...I am sure she would be great to watch in action. I run a holiday business and 8am would be typical for breakfast. I go to London a lot and stay in hotels and guest houses. I have never had one that didn't serve at that time.

This is why largely I stay away from hotels or bnb's. Cant stand living by other people's times

Argh this is why I do not like B&Bs! Had so many stories of feeling like I was a complete inconvenience to them. I've have a B&B owner that have gone into my room and touched/ moved my stuff around. One that wouldn't allow me to leave a suitcase & ended up having to lug it round with me.. too many stories.

I don't like getting out of bed when there's a 7 on the clock either. That's why I don't run a B&B! YANBU.

8am is normal and no, you didn’t need to check.

She sounds bat sh!t

This is why Premier Inn exists

Goodness me, this is why I stay at chain hotels. Breakfast from 6am, and I eat at 7am.

I have had this at a B and B before too. Made me feel so uncomfortable. There was also a B and B that only had a bath, no shower (fine) but they refused to supply a plug. Not a cheap place either.

I used to own a B&B. Nothing fancy, just my rural home and quite honestly? I HATE mornings. Didn't mean that breakfast didn't start at 7am if required. And for those who needed very early breakfasts (like 6am or earlier) we'd happily make them up a to go breakfast. Cereal bars, etc or leaving a loaf, butter, jams and a toaster in the dining room.

I'd have been really put off being interrogated and then questioned as to why I hadn't left at a certain time. How weird. And rude.

How bizarre!

They like a lie in on the weekend obvs, you are being unreasonable.

I would want breakfast at 8 when staying away, we normally go visiting places with ds, sen, so we’ll want to be back for the day around 4 pm, so we are leaving early, I’ll definitely check this in future, not a problems in hotels so I would assume fine