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!

This is actually one of my favourite sunny holiday rituals! Especially when the pool or beach is still quiet and the lights always lovely at that time.

As always, there's a hell of a lot of middle ground between the extremes. I don't think anyone would think it's acceptable to take a carrier bag of stuff. That's not what most people are talking about. A bun and a bit of ham/cheese, or a piece of fruit is completely different and pretty normal really.

Absolutely yes!

If we stay in a hotel with buffet breakfast included I see no issue in taking a few mini croissants or pain au chocolats for the kids (& me) to nibble on later

Sometimes take a few pieces of fruit eg apple banana

Or may even take a cappuccino back up to our room...outrageous!

I think it depends on the situation. I do it because I have young DCs who barely eat breakfast and will be hungry an hour after breakfast finishes but when it's still too early for lunch.

A few hotels I have been to abroad, the staff ask if we want a take away container for DCs because it will all get thrown away otherwise.
This was at an Intercontinental hotel.

I wouldn't do it for myself as an adult but definitely take a couple for the kids. If I haven't been offered, I let the staff now that I will be doing it. I have spent all that money, the kids will get fed one way or another.

Also a few if the hotel is all inclusive, it's not a big deal. It's just saving you the hassle of walking to another part to get a bite to eat for the DCs. I like a hassle free life.

Exactly, it gets thrown away otherwise. Which is hustling wasteful

That woman was incredibly cheeky. On walking holidays, one of which was in Austria, the hotels we stay at will often provide a packed lunch for an extra charge. So making your own from the breakfast buffet does feel a bit like cheating the hotel.

Also, in smaller hotels, if lots of people do this there could be little left for other guests. We once spent the night at a family run hotel in Germany. Everyone else staying appeared to be on a coach trip together. I think many of them must have been taking extras because when we got in to breakfast after them it was nearly stripped bare!

I don't really see the harm in taking the odd pastry or piece of fruit. Personally I wouldn't though.

Years ago I spent a few weeks working away during the week and staying in hotels. I was usually with a colleague, another woman about my age. She was just so tight it was embarrassing.

At the office where we were working they provided hot water but you had to supply your own beverages and milk. There was a shop on site where people could buy small cartons of milk. Instead my colleague took a small thermos in to breakfast and filled it with milk from the buffet.

Also she never left the restaurant without slipping 2 or 3 of those tiny jars of jam in to her pocket!

Just to clarify, she was reasonably well paid and was also working the expenses as cleverly as possible to make every last penny, so she didn't really need to save pennies on milk or steal jam.

No because I am not a thief

Thief hilarious

Very apt username tho

If they have maple and pecan, I'm taking 3 ! 😂

Except you won't be able to as I'll have thieved the lot to enjoy with my coffee

Damn you, pastry stealing fiend! 😂

Thought I’d update as we’re back at the same place for some winter sun, 24C today while snow falls in a cold snap back in the UK.

The hotel has ramped up breakfast security!
The staff are on the look out for likely culprits, a pile of pastries and serviettes is the usual giveaway.

To be fair the woman who’d got 4 bread rolls plus ham, cheese and butter, then stood there by a table with a rucksack using the cutlery to make rolls was, to put it bluntly asking to be called out, and she was. She left the goods on the table and huffed out.
Honestly, it gives us biscuit lifters a bad name.

Yes I sometimes grab an apple or banana too. I don’t see what difference it makes if I’d eaten it with breakfast or take it for later. My bugbear is when I see people pile plates up with a variety of pastries for the table then leave half of them to get thrown away. Twats.

I did this for the first time on my last holiday. I don't really eat breakfast but go down for a coffee. They had some huge chocolate chip cookies. I couldn't eat sweet stuff for breakfast but I took two and we had them at bedtime with hot chocolate. Did it every day after that.

I think it’s fine, I don’t do it, generally as I don’t eat breakfast pastries after lunch or dinner, and I guess I’d see it as trying to get your monies worth so being a bit grabby round the food, but again, I’m fine with anyone doing it. It’s surprising what people do to save a couple of quid, making up rolls etc. the hotels know they do it,