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?

The last hotel I stayed at just had a communal tea and coffee station at reception. Which was a pain if you wanted a cup of tea in bed in the morning, as you had to get dressed first and go downstairs first.

think about it rationally - you could pay an additional £5 a night and get "nice" biscuits that might or might not be to your taste.
Or have a lower room cost and spend £5 on biscuits or chocolate that is exactly to your taste.

I know what I'd prefer.

But it won't cost an extra fiver for a couple of posh biscuits, the extra cost must be under £1.

Costco sells a multipack of Border Biscuits in packs 2 for under £10 for about 40, so about 25 p each. Most people on this thread would be more than happy with those instead of a couple of digestives.

Plus a dedicated wholesaler will have a wider choice that might be slightly more but likely maybe 50 p? per pack?

I had to travel to Australia for work a few times recently, and the mini bars were pleasantly surprising! Really nice treats on offer, even single use face masks, artisan fudge, locally made biscuits, that sort of thing. These places were all in the city centre so no point trying to compete with the abundant convenience stores nearby.

Shoutout to the Tollhouse Inn in Lancaster who provide homemade (or maybe from a local bakery) shortbread. And when I had the "no housekeeping required" sign in my door, they left a fresh supply of shortbread outside my door.

I stay in hotels a lot for work and I’m always pleased when I get biscuits! Happens less and less, unfortunately.

When I’m in London I mainly stay in an ibis. They used to give you Biscoff but nothi by for the last year or so.

I also have fond memories of the Doubletree check in cookies, and the few occasions I’ve been lucky enough to stay there!

I'm partial to a shortbread or two on the hospitality tray in a hotel room, I wouldn't be happy about no biscuits at all.
On a side note, a hotel I once stayed in had a cupboard outside my room, which housed the biscuits, and bloody nice biscuits they were too. Posh ones.
I was fair biscuited out by the time I left.

I absolutely agree. This is a big criterion on how I judge hotels!

Used to run a B&B in Scotland and shortbread and Tunnock's teacakes and wafers were staples on the tea tray.

We stayed in a small BnB in Northumberland, Nespresso machine , a variety of teas, hot chocolate sachets, homemade warmish banana bread (before covid when we got sick of it) and a tiny fridge with fresh milk, in the morning there were even homemade baked beans too!

I recently flew with Logan Air and despite the flight being about half an hour long, was given a Tunnocks tea cake and a tiny cup of water, which was a nice surprise as I only ever usually fly low cost where all on board refreshments cost money.

The biscuits I’d really like are M&S Cornish Cruncher cheese ones. 😋

I might open a chain of Biscuit Hotels. With biscuit themed rooms.

There's a B&B in Campbeltown, Kintyre, with the most amazing selection of snacks I've ever seen. Everything you could think of, including a selection of fruit juice in the fridge. Chocolate bars, biscuits, home baked cakes, cereal, crisps. I've never stayed anywhere as nice as that. The hosts were lovely too.

My son works nights at a Doubletree and they hand the cookies out in the morning.

The (not so) stale ones get thrown out from the day before, for which I am truly grateful. Apparently I am the garbage disposal

I stayed in a hotel in Manchester last week and one in London the week before and there were none in either.

😂😂😂

@Bjorkdidit I'm thinking a stop off at Waitrose and a box of Fudge's dark chocolate florentines.

I like the warm cookies you get on check in at Hilton.

And Gotham in Manchester has pig shaped and decorated biscuits that are lovely.

I like the little touches and they'll sometimes prompt me to choose one hotel over another.

Please tell me of this hotel as I need to
escape the country for a few days and the waffles are calling.

Not only are the biscuits disappearing the shower caps are no where to be found! I know they are plastic but I don’t want to wash my hair twice a day thank you!

The custard creams WAS the fig biscuits.

so my dog tells me every time.

Its biscuits mate, very important

I stayed in a hotel recently and there was a vase of Tunnock's teacakes. Delightful!

If I was a hotel critic, the presence of biscuits would instantly add an extra star to my review!

Hotels get major bonus points from me for, in order:

• biscuits in rooms

• breakfast that offers fresh fruit salad, chocolate croissants and plentiful fresh (not tinned!) cooked mushrooms.

• Miniatures that include separate hair conditioner.

• A decent hairdryer that you can unplug and that doesn't have a shitty springy cable.

Disappointingly, I clearly have luxury tastes that outstrip my budget. Alas a sachet of Nescafe and a wall-dispenser of “hair and body wash” are usually the only extra treats that I get for my buck.