Pastries at breakfast - you also help yourself to a couple right?

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Let me say this is lighthearted.

We’re on holiday , Tenerife, half board.

As we’re leaving breakfast we take a couple of the pastries to enjoy later in the day usually after the afternoon’s sunbathing.

It’s not just us is it?
As it happens we did see someone making up rolls with ham and cheese this morning but we’ve never gone that far!

I did this a few times when I was on holiday recently and even seen a few people leaving with a plate with food on!

Thats us told, back to Pontins for us next year then. 😉

I'd rather people did that than pile up a plate of random stuff that they then don't eat.

I've lost count of the number of families I've seen at all inclusives who pile a plate full of pastries and muffins to take back to their family table, then it turns out nobody actually wanted them so they end up getting cleared away/binned 🙄.

Thanks for the tip, we usually stay at the Premier Inn at Manchester Airport.
We buy a few of the Aldi mini wines and refill them with the cheaper local French wine for any days out cycling if we’re in France.

Last hotel l stayed in Spain people were bringing there own cups down and taking away a coffee, they didn't seem to care, sometimes we will take some fruit , l have seen people take a full breakfast, the staff said all the leftovers were binned anyway.
Holiday inn here provide takeaway cups, box's and fruit. I have never seen any hotel object to people taking stuff. Personally l would just grab a coffee and maybe some fruit but l don't care what other people do.

I have never noticed what other people are doing (unless they're making a loud spectacle of themselves) why on earth would I be watching what other people are doing with their food and god knows why I’d be clocking that a complete stranger has decided to take a pastry out with them.

You would have had a fit of the vapours at me taking a plate of breakfast pastries and rolls to my kids in the cabin because they were still asleep when I wanted to have breakfast. All ok’d by the staff, but you wouldn’t be privy to that info would you.

A few pp have mentioned this aspect and it triggered a memory years back staying in a hotel in Seville.
An American couple looked like they’d taken (at least) one of everything from the breakfast offerings to their table and shortly after left 90% of it at the table, wasted.

In our defence, we don’t eat pastries for breakfast then take more, we take a couple and I do mean two each, for eating later, for example one after our self made and paid for lunch, one around five.

who cares

I can't remember if I have or haven't in all honesty! I would have no qualms in doing so though!

Laughing about the PP who says it looks 'greedy'!! To who? To the saddos who are watching what other people are doing on holiday?! You're alright love, no one gives a fuck what you think!

No, I couldn't care less if you do that, as you say I have no idea why. But I might notice because sometimes you do just look round and see what others are doing. All I am saying is that I personally choose not to do it.

I’m responding to posts in the assumption it’s a typical holiday hotel with breakfast buffet thrown in and one, maybe two, pastries are taken away. Some posters might be thinking its a small hotel where every item has been portioned out for the number of guests. 🤷‍♀️

It’s a large place, breakfast is busy, lots of families with young kids as well as couples of all ages.

Oh totally, and I expect that's the type of hotel most people are talking about too. I was just offering a different perspective to the people who think it never matters how much they take. A couple of pastries or bit of fruit from a big AI hotel with a huge buffet, who cares (and that's much better than the people who pile up their plates but then leave half of it!).

I think it’s fine to do this. However the hotel where we stayed in Gran Canaria last year would not allow this and the staff policing the entrance /exit to the buffet restaurant would take any unconsumed items back !

Come on, there’s no ‘needs must’ here. People staying at hotels are hardly on the breadline.

I think it's incredibly unreasonable as it can lead to those having later breakfast ending up with just the slices of cheap bread rather than any pastries as the earliest people loaded up on their way out. I find it selfish and rather naff behaviour, and give literally no cares to what people's feelings are about that.

Quite often I've taken food for someone who isn't up early enough for breakfast, but has paid for one. Usually my teenager, but occasionally when I go away with a friend who isn't a morning person.

You don't know whether they are doing this, not to eat for themselves. Not that I care either way.

I agree. Obviously different if it’s a small place and every item is accountable. Those big free for all hotel buffets though, you’d have to pretty uptight to let a rogue pastry get your hackles up.

Agree that taking breakfast back to the room for someone else is totally different to making a picnic lunch for the whole family which is cheeky.

No I don’t do this

If they ate it at the table it’s still gone though isn’t it. That’s the risk of later breakfasts. Those big buffet hotels usually still have plenty going spare. If you’re at a posher hotel you probably have to order off the menu and pay for only what you have.

That seems a bit uptight. Was it a posher hotel? I stayed at the (can’t remember it’s exact name, something Salinas?) and they probably didn’t allow it as it was quite fancy. (Although I might be wrong and they didn't care, it was a long time ago). (Actually might have been Lanzarote).

Piece of fruit or pastry for later - sure

Packed lunch or ingredients thereof - tight

I watched someone get a roll of clingfilm out and methodically make sandwiches for the table. It was hilarious.

hmmm maybe justifiable if they were leaving that day and nowhere to buy sandwiches at the airport… <scrapes barrel>