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?

We used to stay in small places where there'd be a jar with homemade shortbread or tablet as a little personal touch.

Life seems to be pre COVID and post COVID and that we stay in different places now.

I love plain digestives at home, I put butter on them though!

I've had them in Spain and the Canaries

It's been there equivalent of rich tea biscuits. A pack of 4 in a white, red and silver foil packet. They have them at breakfast too

I love them and even bought a pack home!

Been in a couple of Holiday Inn Express branches in the US that do free warm cookies in the lobby in the afternoon.

The Doubletree check-in free warm cookie is a worldwide thing, AFAIK.

Currently in a U.K. Holiday Inn - we got a packet of 3 bourbons. I love bourbons so not complaining.

DH used to travel a lot for work and I was jealous of him having Double Tree Hilton warm cookies in check in. Then I went to stay at Double Tree Hilton in the US and after travelling for 12 hours they didn't offer me one. This was two years ago and I was mentioning it to DH last night. I'm still upset about it. He thinks I should get over it.

I did have one in Woking though (I remembered to ask) and it wasn't that great.

Other than that. I can't really complain about hotel biscuits. I'm quite easily pleased.

@LynetteScarvo LTUnsympatheticB.

Ah my kind of thread! Biscoff is a lazy choice for hotels. And I don't like Borders choc chip biscuits as the chips are too small.

I read this and immediately thought it would be about a biscuity version of Hotel Chocolat. They would have beautiful versions of warm biscuits, biscuit mixes, travel biscuits, biscuit selection boxes ...

And there would be a marvellously retro version of a biscuit maker that makes foolproof, cafe-quality biscuits.

Bitterly disappointed.

I used to run a B&B. Walkers shortbread biscuits since you ask.

The best hotel "biscuits" I had were a generous decorative tin of stroopwafel in Amsterdam 😋.

@EastFifeFiveForfarFour YANBU. But it’s part of a Ryanair approach to hospitality I am finding now. Everything is “extra” - not necessarily costing more but you need to ask for it.

Stayed at a very nice Hilton fairly recently and we didn’t even getting housekeeping as we “didn’t request it”. The only thing in the room mentioned towels only - the thing that hangs on the door said something like “I cannot help save the planet today so please change our towels” - on BOTH sides of the notice. Neither side said “please make up our room” which I thought was rather sneaky. And I hate the way hotels try to pass this off as a climate initiative rather than just cost cutting.

I had to go to reception to request clean cups, milk, more tea bags etc. Then had an argument with them as no one told us at check in we’d need to request such basic service. We were paying about £120 a night for 2 adults. Won’t be back, that’s for sure.

This is the first world (at the moment), so any problems therein are first world problems

Me and DH once went to a fancy pants hotel in the Yorkshire Dales. We were blown away to be given fresh milk in a jug and biscuits made in the kitchen. We’re easily pleased 😀

Hotel football give you space raiders, cans of vimto and chewy sweets. They refill you if you stay for more than one night too. Heaven.

Most hotels seem to have those cookies in a matte packet and they are dry as fuck. They don't even seem to have hot chocolate any more.

I’m tempted to start another chat about the sad death of the mini bar.

Yes! My minibar was empty last night!

@EBearhug that would enrage me!

But the extortionate prices!!!!

Empty minibars are fine - means you don't have to tell children not to eat things (as by weight, they cost more than rubies) and I can put my medication in the fridge without setting off those rubbish 'she ate something! charge her!' alarms.

The king of biscuits

I stayed in a hotel in Paris that didn't have biscuits, it had gin and tonic refreshed daily. Bloody brilliant!

We stayed in Dom and Steph’s posh b&b in Sandwich before I’d ever watched googlebox. The room had a small carafe of sherry which was very civilised. I’m ashamed to say I can’t recall what the biscuits were but there were also savoury nibble things.

Lots of Scottish hotels have Tunnock’s caramel wafers. We stay in quite a few different ones. I judge them harshly if they have anything else on offer. We’re staying at a new hotel soon which definitely thinks of itself as posh. I’ll decide on that once I see the biscuit offering.

Stayed at a Lake District BnB just before COVID and the couple who ran in put home made tiffin in the room every afternoon for tea, as well as a decanter of port! Happy times.

I know, and I wouldn't have anything if there had been anything, bit I still like to see what there is, just as I like to judge the tea and coffee options, despite not drinking either.

@WiddlinDiddlin what’s the name of the hotel in Brussels please? I’ll be heading there next year.