To make lunch from the buffet breakfast at our (frankly) ludicrously expensive hotel in Crete

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We are off on holiday tomorrow and we booked this a year ago.....before my dh lost his job and before we couldn't really afford it. However, it was too late to cancel without losing our money and we didn't want to disappoint the kids, so we are off anyway. This means we are staying in an expensive 5 star resort on a small budget. I'd already paid for the bed/breakfast so I'm thinking, since they have a massive buffet (we've been before) that we ought to stock up on rolls, cheese, ham, fruit etc and feed ourselves this at lunchtime to save money. We have two kids who would be happy enough with this and I reckon it would save us a small fortune. However dh is really against it saying that it's something he'd never do, we'd have to do it on the quiet - which he hates the idea of - and he thinks it's giving our kids the wrong message (like we are stealing or something)....

Views please.. don't kill me please - I'm just trying not to go into mounds of debt...

This is getting ridiculous. Was going to say why, but really can't be arsed. It's all getting boring.

Exactly Sobernow, they'll have an approximate idea of how much cheese, bread,ham, yoghurt will be eaten in order to minimise cost/waste.

And if you take food from the buffet before it's over you could be using the last of the fruit,eggs, sausage etc meaning others may go without.

think of all those people who never turn up for breakfast due to hangovers, screaming toddlers etc, etc. who have already paid for B&B (not myself obviously, I would never waste food in such a manner ). Think of it as simply taking their share!

LEM is losing the will to live, actually, i aint bovvered

Crikey, this has kicked off it seems - but I think why would you NOT do it? Waste of food otherwise. How odd that some people on this thread think it's not on.

We did it all the time on our stay in Paris. There were all these massive bagguettes and no-one else was taking them (we went for breakfast late usually) - filled em with the ham that no-one else was eating too and they kept us going til dinner. You're not stealing if the hotel was just gonna chuck the leftovers out...

hilarious, 7 pages over a few bread rolls.....

"Why would you NOT do it"........ummm...because it's called breakfast, not lunch and the hotel is trying to run a business.

No-one ever eats the ham for breakfast when I go on hols. What would they do with it - serve it again? When it's already starting to go a bit manky?

I wouldn't last long in catering, you're right. Crap cook

but shes taking some food from the breakfast buffet (that she has paid for)...not as if shes sneaking her and her family into the lunch/dinner time sittings and nicking the food from there...ok filling up a handbag to the brim with food is a bit much but I dont see the problem in taking some of the food with you for later.

I probably wouldn't, as I'd feel embarrassed / afraid of being "spoken to", but I don't think it's a big deal, unless there's a big sign saying "please don't remove food from the dining room". If the hotel's having a real problem with bread-roll-pilferers, then they can surely put up a sign?

on our last hols i too a banana and an apple for dd, the bread would probably go off if you too it.
some hotels we have been in have offered boxes so you can take as much as you like.if not offered i wouldnt risk it.
my mother who is as tight as a gnats arse used dds buggy to stash her lunch, i refused to push it when it was full.

I feel so sorry for the hotel trying to run a business and having people eat the food and everything instead of allowing them to keep it or throw it away..

Don't do a buffet if it's such a costly operation to run a hotel. Do a set meal for everyone!

Yes but every hotel works on an average portion size per person and 4 people taking enough food for 8 every day pushes their margins down. Before anyone comes along and says f*ck their margins, I personally think it's greedy and chavvy. If you go to a 5 star hotel, you should try and behave like a 5 star guest [snob emoticon ].

That's not aimed at the OP, btw.

i agree with onceinalifetime's 5 star comment totally.

If you go to a five star hotel, blardy get your money's worth.

As someone said before, loads of people don't even come down for breakfast. So to be fair, they should get some mney ack from the hotel.
Couldn't give a stuff if folk think it's common or chavvy. To me it's just sensible.

yes, you should only take food from the buffet afterwards if you are in a 3* hotel or less

well said puppymonkey!!! In that case Im owed a fortune!!!

Onceinalifetime - Well said. If I stay in a 5-star establishment, it's to get away from this sort of behaviour. Bloody chavs.

totally agree Word

Hey, I bet Brad and Angelina nick the breakfast ham... And that Posh Spice...

Last year I stayed in a 4* city hotel with some girlfriends - 2 of whom decided to help themselves to a pile of danish pastries "for lunch".

So tacky.......I'm still cringing now. (And btw we'd got the rooms for a bargain so "getting their money's worth" didn't apply).