• _number8_@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I stg it used to be (probably around pre 2020) that even the shitty hole in the wall motels had like pretty comfy solid breakfast - bagged eggs (my guilty pleasure) and cool steampunk communal toasters and shit. now it’s like mini cereal boxes and maybe bagged muffins.

    getting old is hell. everything gets worse and most people just try to ignore it

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      11 months ago

      I was going to a Day’s Inn yearly for a river floating trip, and each year their breakfast got shittier and shittier.

      They used to have a Texas shaped (self-serve) waffle maker, muffins, toast, juice, and jam. Now it’s single serving cereal boxes and room temperature OJ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      11 months ago

      I feel the breakfast buffet was another victim of covid. Hotels probably realized the cost to re-open the buffet wasn’t worth it.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        Which is ridiculous. Why should people self serving themselves eggs and bacon and toast be cancelled due to the pandemic? They didn’t shut down hotels, and fomites weren’t a vector of infection.

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          11 months ago

          There was that whole thing where people weren’t comfortable with crowding into a single communal indoor space though. If no one gathers to eat the food, the food is a waste.

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          11 months ago

          You seem not to remember what 2020 was like, particularly March through the fall.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Hotels have gotten worse. I travel for work often and I can see it. Housekeeping every day isn’t a given anymore since Covid and the breakfasts have continued to decline. Pretty much all I will get at hotel breakfast these days is an apple and nuclear reactor temperature coffee.

      • philpo@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        Yeah,same for me. I avoid non-chain-operated hotels for that meanwhile - they are usually worse and often the owners are on such a high horse that they expect you to be thankful to spend your money there. With hotel chains you at least have a central customer support you can complain to.

        Last highlight: Was in a mid-market private hotel (no chains around there) and on the first evening my toilet seat broke. I mean, yeah, I am a little bit overweight but not nearly enough for that being the cause normally, so very likely it was just wear. Happens, no biggie.

        The reaction of the owner was the reason why I will never visit that establishment again - and neither will any of my staff: First they tried to ridicule me/accused me of intentionally vandalism, then they tried to make me put it through my insurance (won’t fly, they won’t pay a thing unless they can prove proper maintenance). And then she took 5 days to repair the bloody thing.

        Saw her treat her staff incredibly bad as well…so…

        Yeah, neither my staff nor me will come back. That makes them lose around 10k in income. But hey, it’s just “that remote working thing” and “everything getting more expensive”. Nope. It isn’t. It’s them.

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        11 months ago

        I never wanted housekeeping every day anyway so it just means I don’t have to tell them to fuck off as often for me.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve noticed the IHG family hotels (Holiday Inn) usually has a pretty well done breakfast, even at their budget Holiday Inn Express hotels

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      11 months ago

      Outside the US almost everywhere has a very good breakfast. Substantially better than the ones “nice” US hotels serve.