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!

The only time I've taken food away was to take up to DH who stayed in the room with an ill DC and I asked first if it was ok.
I don't think I'd fancy a dry, old pastry after sunbathing.

There was a big group of women at the last hotel we stayed at who took loads of crisp breads, charcuterie, cheese and fruit from breakfast to have a picnic in the lobby each evening with a bottle of wine they hid under the table!

I recently stayed in an all inclusive hotel where at dinner the waiters would have ice buckets prepared with a bottle of wine in, ready to go onto the tables of guests who wanted it. I saw a lady who had finished her meal, breeze past the waiters area and swiftly nab a bottle of wine and put it in her handbag. A few minutes later she went for another, picked it up slightly, saw me gawping at her and popped it back. Reckon she was going home the next morning and wanted to take a stash with her.

But some hotels do care , as has been said on here . If you’ve forgotten sunscreen are at a hotel and feel it’s acceptable to do this then speak to the staff and ask .

FFS get a grip

Oh for goodness sake! 🤦‍♀️🥴

Yup, we tend to take something small "for later" for a mid morning snack or lunch. Especially when we used to go skiing - the prices on the slopes are insane, so instead of buying lunches, we'd take some bread rolls, cheese and ham from the breakfast buffet and make sandwiches at the table, and take them with us, along with a couple of pieces of fruit. Most people were doing it in ski resorts, and there's usually a fair amount of people doing it in med resort hotels. Even in the UK, there's usually a few people taking things for later. I think it's pretty much accepted, as long as people don't take the piss and take sack fulls of stuff. The hotel staff aren't watching and tallying what people are eating in the restaurant and what they're taking away, so they don't know who's have "double dips" and especially in the UK, trades/travelling workers often pop into the restaurant after checking out, and grab a few things to take with them rather than eating in the restaurant - it's why places like Holiday Inn provide paper bags and take-out paper cups for people to "grab and go".

Exactly. No real difference between eating a breakfast and taking something for later, compared with stuffing your face at breakfast with twice as much food. I personally can't eat much at breakfast anyway, so whilst others are constantly going back to the buffet, first for toast/jam, then cereal, then their sausage and bacon and finally some fruit, I'd probably just have one "course" and take a couple of things for later. Probably overall, take less than a greedy sod having all four courses in one go!

I'll brave the disapproval of many but I've always been one for making ham and cheese rolls at breakfast. I can't eat huge breakfast and I don't want huge lunch either so a little roll puts me on til dinner. It was a thrifty habit when I was younger and has set my eating habits on holiday.

Its just me. Dc like chips by the pool at lunch. Dh will have the big breakfast that puts him on til dinner. I can do a club sandwich or caesar salad once or twice a holiday but otherwise if I'm doing that pool lounging holiday that relies on hotel food then a swift ham cheese roll is my fave .

I'm also one for taking a selection of cakes to give dc later on in the day.

I don't see the difference between someone who eats less at breakfast and snacks throughout the day, and someone who eats the same amount of food in one sitting at breakfast only.

I didn’t see that lol but it seemed totally normal for these people to pile their plates really high. I couldn’t understand why they just didn’t do smaller plates and go back for more, and god knows why they were sticking donuts and other sweet stuff on top of the savoury 😬

I would say that is the norm for me too. I can’t eat a lot in one sitting. If I’m just having a small plate of scrambled egg I see no harm in taking a pastry/croissant to have a bit later. I’m really not sure what some people on here are visualising?

I wouldn’t because it’s a bit classless. I’d be embarrassed to do it, plus I don’t like pastries.

That does seem rather cheeky next to an innocent mini jam Danish. Crikey that’d be like walking off with an entire joint from the carvery table under your arm.

Yes, of course. We always take a couple of pieces of fruit, too. And not just when I’m on holiday. On work trips I always take a coffee to go & fruit from the breakfast buffet. I thought everyone did this?

I would have thought this was fine. I’m not big on breakfast so often say I’m not going to sit I’m just going to grab a croissant to go and I’ve never had them say no. I’d imagine if you were taking a full 5 course breakfast in your handbag then they might have an issue.

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Yup, we tend to take something small "for later" for a mid morning snack or lunch. Especially when we used to go skiing - the prices on the slopes are insane, so instead of buying lunches, we'd take some bread rolls, cheese and ham from the breakfast buffet and make sandwiches at the table, and take them with us, along with a couple of pieces of fruit. Most people were doing it in ski resorts

This is where we first saw this, at a ski resort over 30 years ago.
At first we (silently) tutted, but by the end of the week we’re joining in. Helped by the nature of continental breakfasts of course.

I think loads of people do. Breakfast times can be too early when you’re on holiday and if you don’t feel you can make the most of the buffet then taking a pastry or croissant isn’t going to bankrupt them. I don’t mean taking the piss but no one other than the most uptight is going to care if you take a croissant from a buffet you’ve already paid for.

I don’t think it’s fair to describe business owners who don’t want this to happen in their establishments as “uptight”.

The ‘grab and go’ is aimed at those that don’t have time for a sit-down breakfast, not so people can have two 😂😂

I can’t bear buffets, so prefer hotels where I can have breakfast made to order. Or I’ll just go out and get a far better meal!

I don't but don't judge any who does unless they're taking the mickey and filling bags

The hotel we stayed in last year gave you those foil take away containers if you asked which you could fill at breakfast and take back to your room. But it was AI so guess you've paid for all your food. Think it's cheeky if you making lunch when your only paying for breakfast. Although we have done it on a few occasions, especially check out day when going home and unsure of what food will be available en-route for the kids.

So if the only thing you eat at the breakfast buffet is a croissant you took back to your room that’s a problem for a business? The uptight people are the posters who wouldn’t take kindly to it or see it as stealing, they're supposed to be on holiday chilling not tutting because someone took a baked goods item from the buffet and didn’t eat it at the table. It’s a croissant that’s available to you if you want it, eating it a few feet away from the restaurant isn’t going to cause a business to collapse especially as it’s already been paid for in the holiday package.

It must be a problem for the “uptight” business whose hotel I stayed in last week, as they put a sign up requesting guests to not take food. I can’t imagine that business is the only hotel in the world that have the same request or inclination, directly communicated or not.

And more broadly, the point I made earlier isn’t about one croissant. It’s about when it happens multiple times and the implications for this.

I think the polite thing for you and all the other people who do this is to ask the staff if it’s OK first, as one or two people here have done. See how you get on then.

The only time I've taken food away was to take up to DH who stayed in the room with an ill DC and I asked first if it was ok.
I don't think I'd fancy a dry, old pastry after sunbathing.
There was a big group of women at the last hotel we stayed at who took loads of crisp breads, charcuterie, cheese and fruit from breakfast to have a picnic in the lobby each evening with a bottle of wine they hid under the table!

@LindaLeggings contemplate for a moment….who do you think is getting more joy out of life. You or them?

I'm trying to work out how much of a villainous thief I am.
I don't stay in hotels on holidays but do
frequent Premier Inns for weekends.
I am in the habit of taking a tupperware box to breakfast so I can take a couple of the little muffins for a small snack with a cup of tea in the evening.
In my 'defence' I take my own teabags, I don't have fruit juice, cereal, yoghurt, I do have a moderate cooked breakfast, maybe a slice of toast.
I don't really think taking a banana and a mini muffin is the crime of the century when I could have eaten a lot more at breakfast

In plenty of hotels I've been in there have been signs up asking clientele not to take food from the restaurants. I assume it's to stop people passing on food to friends or family also staying there who just booked room only and not B&B or half/fullboard.