Hotel Biscuits

[EastFifeFiveForfarFour]

AIBU to think that the availability and standard of hotel room biscuits has declined significantly?

There was once a time when you could at the very least rely on a solid, standard biscuit, like a bourbon or a custard cream. Now you’re lucky if you get any at all.

More expensive places used to give you a home baked cookie in a fancy bag tied with a bow. Now you get bought in standard conference room biscuits at best.

Big up to the Premier Inn though - their premium rooms had Green & Blacks chocolate last time I stayed.

Maybe I need to get over this shit.

AIBU?

See, an American chain offering 'cookies'
This is Engerlaaand, mate. We have biscuits.
Cookies don't know if they are Arthur or Martha; bit crunchy, as in biscuit, then soft and gooey, like cake. Get a grip, decide what youvare. Stay on your side of the pond, cookies. Be gone...
Sorry, I rather dislike cookies

I’m fond of a ginger biscuit in a hotel.

Custard creams are not worth the calories.

We stayed in a pub with rooms in North Wales that had a mini fridge for fresh milk, good biscuits and even provided dog treats for any dogs booked in .

Yes, how dare you expect anything other than Gulag 1star accommodation, OP.

I am reading this over breakfast in a hotel. Just a single-packed Biscoff here, one in each cup. There is milk, but I didn't really note the full range, as I don't drink tea or coffee. Looked like only one coffee sachet though (and one hot chocolate.) Two PG Tips bags, two Twinings Early Grey, two fruit teas, but neither a flavour I'd rush to, and no peppermint tea, which I would have had. Also, no glasses, so I had water in a cup.

But I forgive them everything because I had a giant bath in my ... suite, rather than room... and as it it took me double the planned time to get here, oh, that bath was needed and good. Sort of felt with the size of the bath and bed and sitting room I should have been having an orgy or something, but I just didn't have the energy. Plus I was expecting small room, bed and shower, as it was only £55 for the night.

Biscoff is basic biscuit.
A nice Borders shortbread is good.
I quite like a serve yourself tea bar outside the room.. they have much better biscuits.
Last place I stayed at had Brownies!

Milk? Proper milk. I haven't seen in a long while.
Sachets of long life milk. Yes. But why,why,why don't they not put them in the mini bar fridge?
Tea made with room temperature milk is horrible.
It's the first thing I do whenever I go to a hotel.
And more Earl Gray please.

I think I have done too many hotel stays...Forced..

I stayed at a hotel in Amsterdam which had fairly standard conference biscuits in the bedrooms, but lots of interesting stuff in thr lobby- reception desk had chocolates and sometimes some sort of stolleny thing, and a whole table with jars of sweets to help yourself to.

I'm always happy to see Borders biscuits, appreciate a DoubleTree check in cookie and love a Tunnocks or Biscoff. My new top hotel biscuit, encountered at the Hotel Indigo chain, is St Michel Sable de Retz.
I can report on zero biscuits at Holiday Inn recently.

I've stayed at 2 hotels recently that had put whole pints if milk in the mini bar 😀 this is a welcome move away from those stupid little tiny cartons.

I’ve just stayed in a hotel for work and they had these! And two small biscoff biscuits and a little bottle of milk for my tea - I was pleasantly surprised.

Sorry…

I love it if there's decafinated coffee and a pint of milk. 5* review guaranteed

You get a warmed cookie at Hilton Doubletrees. 🤩

If a hotel has those little packs of borders biscuits I'm sold

I think there used to be biscuits in travelodge, way back when it was travelinn.

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I take a few tea bags of my own.
Can't stand those single-wrapped tea bags: the brew is too weak.

I do too!
But it annoys me that I have to!

My last hotel in Luton had no biscuits, a dirty tea cup and pubes in the shower 😩

I clearly need to make better hotel choices

I do love a unique comment.

It’s been so long since I’ve been in any kind of hotel but Green & Black seems the height of luxury especially if they were complimentary. I appreciate a bourbon or custard cream but wouldn’t be too impressed with a Rich Tea.

I recently stayed at a 'Staypineapple' hotel in San Francisco.
They give out warm pineapple shaped cookies .
They were lovely.

Hilton doubletree in the US do warm cookies on arrival

Just back from a week in a lovely hotel and the biscuits left at turndown were vegan and my DC declared they tasted like dirt. They stopped leaving them after a couple of days as they could see they weren't being eaten.

There were plenty of Earl Grey teabags though so they did redeem themselves slightly.

Love a good biscuit - first thing I look for after getting to the room (that and the tea/coffee facilities, I look for decaf coffee too, then look how nice or not the bathroom is then how dark will the curtains make the room!).

Didn't know about the green and blacks chocolate and premier inn plus but that may just sway it for me!

We have a static caravan that we rent out which on the scale of holidays must be way below a hotel and probably just above camping and even we provide biscuits (for the family and biscuits for the dogs!).

You can tie yourself in knots worrying about what to provide (allergies/preferences etc.) but in the end we just plumped for something that was local to the area.

I’m glad to see that love for the hotel biscuit hasn’t died, and some places are still carrying the torch!