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AIBU to think hotel breakfast in pyjamas is not acceptable?

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Nextones · 30/08/2026 10:36

AIBU yo think that adults should not arrive at the hotel breakfast in their pyjamas?

we’re staying in a city centre hotel. Nice place- nothing fancy, with breakfast included.

thus morning, 2 young women (prob early 20’s) came down to breakfast wearing short pyjamas, barefoot- clearly just out of bed. They were loud, and not overly polite to the staff either- “where are the plates” etc. just brash and abrupt.

Im generally not a fussy person but this sort of thing feels like a lowering of standards to me. I don’t think we saw stuff like this 10-15 years ago.

AIBU to think that this is not acceptable?

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Doaraindance · 30/08/2026 13:19

@ZenNudist not all Hiltons have a separate area for diamond members, I have seen some guests in nightwear or hotel robes in said area (Mainly in SE Asia). Just stated at a Hilton this week, no differences for any level of membership all just sat wherever ( and I am diamond reserve)

loosingjammer · 30/08/2026 13:20

It is a combination of low standards and big entitlement in the UK - people just feel SO entitled to do anything they want now regardless of how it affects others. This is tied to their " level" in society. It's generational too. Slobby people. My Mum was from a very poor background with few material possessions but was ingrained with "you don't need to have money to be clean and tidy" .
You often see signs when abroad at hotels about no bare feet and to be covered up at the entrance to restaurants when it's a beachy resort. Common sense dictates to most that this would be expected in a Premier Inn.
I have noticed that some people in the USA do this in hotels where they have buffet breakfasts - load up and retreat to the room.

bababamama · 30/08/2026 13:22

I’ve been told off for going to breakfast barefoot, i went back for my shoes, though in my defence I never wear shoes inside on carpet and it seems odd to be on lovely carpet in shoes

sweatybettytoday · 30/08/2026 13:23

We just came back from a few night in London. One family (2 women 30’s or just rough 20’s) came down every morning with everyone in pjs (the women in flimsy vest top/shorts style. They clearly didn’t give a xxxx as they were clearly getting looks

ChampagneLassie · 30/08/2026 13:23

🙋‍♂️I did this with a friend 20+ years ago in a fancy hotel I. Dublin. It was the only way I coukd persuade my mate to get down to breakfast in time! I didn’t get the sense anyone batted an eyelid. We were wearing full PJs and slippers though.

JeanSimmons · 30/08/2026 13:25

Redpaisley · 30/08/2026 13:09

I agree people should wear appropriate footwear in public spaces, and coming bare feet to a hotel restaurant is not okay.

But I do need to understand the repulsion of bare feet to this degree. Please explain why sight of bare feel make you want to vomit but not the shoes which have been to all sort places including public toilets some of them are not clean that regularly especially in cafes, departmental stores.
So why don’t you vomit seeing people’s shoes which have more germs than feet?

Are you feet very dirty or smelly? You should be washing your feet everyday and each time wear fresh socks. Feet won’t look or smell repulsive.

I do of course wash my feet, but there is just something icky about bare feet. I can't explain it, it just makes me feel ill. I know a lot of others feel the same way. Plus, the sort of people who appear to breakfast unshowered and in nightwear probably are the same people who don't wash their feet properly.

upupandaway45 · 30/08/2026 13:34

I’m someone than does this but my pjs are clean. You see my pjs are like clothes to me, I don’t actually sleep in them they come off before bed and put back on when I get up. I’ll shower and put clean pjs on and go down for breakfast in a hotel because I have to do my makeup and hair before I’ll get dressed for the day, it’s routine. I wouldn't get dressed go down and eat then come back up and do hair and make up that’s would throw me right off.

so judging really doesn’t get you anywhere because you don’t know if that person has showered and just put clean pjs on. Stop assuming.

MyballsareSandy2015 · 30/08/2026 13:36

I saw this at The Grand in Brighton once 😳

Berlinlover · 30/08/2026 13:37

Absolutely disgusting. I work in a supermarket in Ireland and the traveller women come in shopping wearing pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers. They don’t carry purses or handbags so keep their money in either their bras or knickers. There’s no point in telling them to leave because they’ll just cry racism.

TeethAreImportant · 30/08/2026 13:37

MyManinCaracas · 30/08/2026 11:15

This happened at the Hilton in Cardiff and the staff person told the woman she would need to change out of her pyjamas and into day clothes. When she returned to the restaurant she was wearing a form fitting Lycra top and bottoms. It was strange because it was like she didn’t know how to dress in public.

Nah, she was making a point, the way teenagers often do, 'that'll show them' type of reaction because her sports clothes are even more revealing. Childish.

Lossaloft · 30/08/2026 13:37

SapphireSeptember · 30/08/2026 13:01

I don't consider breakfast at a hotel as properly public though. It's like me taking my rubbish out, or the bin out, in my nightie without having a shower. Someone in the street might see me, I don't care. When I actually go out properly I'll be showered and dressed.

Don't be daft. Its exactly the same as eating in a cafe, restaurant, pub. Its a public place as you are with the public, lots of them, and especially as it is an enclosed indoor space and people are eating.

Thanks for demonstrating the absurd mental gymnastics people create to justify their inconsiderate and slobbish behaviour though.

Karma2023 · 30/08/2026 13:39

Bargarran · 30/08/2026 12:44

Standards really have fallen right across society, in all walks of life, and in every environment, haven't they?

I doubt their SM photos show them looking scruffy, probadly all filters and glam. Perhaps there is a direct correlation between effort on SM vs effort in real life.

This is about respect for others including staff as it's their working environment.

Nsky62 · 30/08/2026 13:41

Random321 · 30/08/2026 10:40

Ir's not a hotel I would stay in.

If you eanf breakfast in your PJs, order room service.

Completely unacceptable snd the hotel staff should have prevented it. H&S for starters, then hygiene, then other guests .

The saff should have sent them back, and told them to grt dressed

Cardhey · 30/08/2026 13:42

Just skanky.

Paddyshanks · 30/08/2026 13:43

Slovenly as fuck! I’d have been sick

XenoBitch · 30/08/2026 13:45

Paddyshanks · 30/08/2026 13:43

Slovenly as fuck! I’d have been sick

You would throw up because you saw someone in their PJs?

Daisywhatsyouranswer · 30/08/2026 13:47

I think there are two types who do this. The first group are people qho don’t know how to behave in public. Of course going to eat breakfast in the hotel restaurant in your pyjamas makes you look like some one from a social underclass, but I just think it’s people with limited social experience who don’t know how to behave in many instances

the second is the “chavvy don’t care” brigade.

both will have noticed everyone else is dressed.

rhere is no excuse for it.and it’s embarassing for both groups, it is fortunately rare though, and it’s quite sad if you think about it.

Happysnappydays · 30/08/2026 13:52

upupandaway45 · 30/08/2026 13:34

I’m someone than does this but my pjs are clean. You see my pjs are like clothes to me, I don’t actually sleep in them they come off before bed and put back on when I get up. I’ll shower and put clean pjs on and go down for breakfast in a hotel because I have to do my makeup and hair before I’ll get dressed for the day, it’s routine. I wouldn't get dressed go down and eat then come back up and do hair and make up that’s would throw me right off.

so judging really doesn’t get you anywhere because you don’t know if that person has showered and just put clean pjs on. Stop assuming.

It is far more likely that someone eating a hotel breakfast in pyjamas has just got out of bed in them than that they have got up, showered, and put on clean pyjamas to go to breakfast.
PJs may be like clothes to you; but you must see how unusual that is? You could easily bring some casual clothing to wear before your dressing routine starts.

Gardenhabit · 30/08/2026 13:53

XenoBitch · 30/08/2026 13:45

You would throw up because you saw someone in their PJs?

I think I'd have found the puking more unacceptable than the pjs!

upupandaway45 · 30/08/2026 13:54

Daisywhatsyouranswer · 30/08/2026 13:47

I think there are two types who do this. The first group are people qho don’t know how to behave in public. Of course going to eat breakfast in the hotel restaurant in your pyjamas makes you look like some one from a social underclass, but I just think it’s people with limited social experience who don’t know how to behave in many instances

the second is the “chavvy don’t care” brigade.

both will have noticed everyone else is dressed.

rhere is no excuse for it.and it’s embarassing for both groups, it is fortunately rare though, and it’s quite sad if you think about it.

Nah I think it’s just people who don’t have a stick up their arse tbh.

Attheendofthenight · 30/08/2026 13:55

Just gone to curry's wearing slippers accidentally Must be losing the plot

Gardenhabit · 30/08/2026 13:56

Daisywhatsyouranswer · 30/08/2026 13:47

I think there are two types who do this. The first group are people qho don’t know how to behave in public. Of course going to eat breakfast in the hotel restaurant in your pyjamas makes you look like some one from a social underclass, but I just think it’s people with limited social experience who don’t know how to behave in many instances

the second is the “chavvy don’t care” brigade.

both will have noticed everyone else is dressed.

rhere is no excuse for it.and it’s embarassing for both groups, it is fortunately rare though, and it’s quite sad if you think about it.

I'll reserve my sadness for things that are actually sad.

LlynTegid · 30/08/2026 13:58

The hotel should make it clear from the outset that you will not be served and you will have to leave the hotel if you do this. No exceptions, notices in appropriate parts of the hotel.

Preferably supported by a law that says the hotel does not have to refund you a penny. If possible, a hotel chain bans such people from ever staying there again, though difficult to enforce because a hotel can be booked under another person.

Staff need to be 100% supported on this too.

upupandaway45 · 30/08/2026 13:59

Happysnappydays · 30/08/2026 13:52

It is far more likely that someone eating a hotel breakfast in pyjamas has just got out of bed in them than that they have got up, showered, and put on clean pyjamas to go to breakfast.
PJs may be like clothes to you; but you must see how unusual that is? You could easily bring some casual clothing to wear before your dressing routine starts.

Yeah but my point is that it is rude to assume that people have done xyz when they don’t know anything. I don’t bat an eyelid and what others do, I don’t judge and I don’t think you’re below me. I go about my day you’re just a stranger and I’ll ignore you. And no I don’t want to wear anything else thanks I’m an adult I’ll wear what I want.

dizzydizzydizzy · 30/08/2026 14:01

thelegacyofdragons · 30/08/2026 10:44

I’ve only ever seen British people do this for some reason. It’s gross.

I’ve seen Americans do in tbe US. There were also various people in PJs when I stayed in Singapore - no idea where they were from.

It’s certainly inappropriate to appear at a hotel breakfast in PJs. I don’t see that it is inherently more unhygienic than normal clothes.

I always try to arrive early at the breakfast buffet because you never know how grubby other people’s hands are.