Chuckanut
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I've done some traveling since the Spring and I try to get hotels that include breakfast with the room. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day.
We stayed at hotels from four major hotel chains - Wyndham, Choice, Hilton and IHG. Here are my comments on the breakfasts.
One Wyndham hotel used Covid as an excuse to offer nothing. Not even a cup of coffee in the morning. Another one offered coffee and tea, and some bagged pastries that were pretty cheap stuff. No juice, milk or boxed cereal for the kids.
The Choice Hotel, a Day's Inn, had a grab-n-go bag. It contained a truly awful frozen microwaved omelette thing, a packet a ketchup to add some flavor, a tiny granola bar (maybe 2 inches long), and a bottle of water. Coffee in the lobby also. No milk or juice or cereal for the kids.
Hilton (A Double Tree Inn) also offered a grab-n-go bag with a frozen breakfast sandwich for the room microwave, a fruit cup, a granola bar and coffee in the lobby. All of it was pretty pathetic.
IHG (Holiday Inn Express) - We stayed at two different hotels. One in the Spring and one this August. Both offered a hot breakfast that was not microwave heated. Last Spring the HIE hotel required one to stand in a short line, and could choose scrambled eggs with sausage or bacon, and toast. That and a grab-n-go bag with a yogurt and pre-packaged pastry were taken to one's room and eaten. However, a few days ago I stayed at another HIE and they had the full breakfast room up and running. Eggs, sausage, toast, bagels, warm cinnamon buns, juices, milk, cereal and fruit. The pancake making machine was up and running. Coffee of course was available. The breakfast room was open with plenty of seating including an outdoor patio on the river side of the hotel Very nice. (For those interested, it was in Corvallis Oregon.)
So, my totally unscientific and seat of the pants N=1 survey gives the breakfast award to IHG whose Holiday Inn Express hotels succeeded in offering a significantly better breakfast than the others.
And I award a big to all of those hotels who, 18 months after the initial Covid limitations on what they can offer for breakfast, still have on their websites pictures of a glorious breakfast spread with plenty of goodies. And, then they add the small mouse print that warns it's probably not available. They've had plenty of time to change the picture.
We stayed at hotels from four major hotel chains - Wyndham, Choice, Hilton and IHG. Here are my comments on the breakfasts.
One Wyndham hotel used Covid as an excuse to offer nothing. Not even a cup of coffee in the morning. Another one offered coffee and tea, and some bagged pastries that were pretty cheap stuff. No juice, milk or boxed cereal for the kids.
The Choice Hotel, a Day's Inn, had a grab-n-go bag. It contained a truly awful frozen microwaved omelette thing, a packet a ketchup to add some flavor, a tiny granola bar (maybe 2 inches long), and a bottle of water. Coffee in the lobby also. No milk or juice or cereal for the kids.
Hilton (A Double Tree Inn) also offered a grab-n-go bag with a frozen breakfast sandwich for the room microwave, a fruit cup, a granola bar and coffee in the lobby. All of it was pretty pathetic.
IHG (Holiday Inn Express) - We stayed at two different hotels. One in the Spring and one this August. Both offered a hot breakfast that was not microwave heated. Last Spring the HIE hotel required one to stand in a short line, and could choose scrambled eggs with sausage or bacon, and toast. That and a grab-n-go bag with a yogurt and pre-packaged pastry were taken to one's room and eaten. However, a few days ago I stayed at another HIE and they had the full breakfast room up and running. Eggs, sausage, toast, bagels, warm cinnamon buns, juices, milk, cereal and fruit. The pancake making machine was up and running. Coffee of course was available. The breakfast room was open with plenty of seating including an outdoor patio on the river side of the hotel Very nice. (For those interested, it was in Corvallis Oregon.)
So, my totally unscientific and seat of the pants N=1 survey gives the breakfast award to IHG whose Holiday Inn Express hotels succeeded in offering a significantly better breakfast than the others.
And I award a big to all of those hotels who, 18 months after the initial Covid limitations on what they can offer for breakfast, still have on their websites pictures of a glorious breakfast spread with plenty of goodies. And, then they add the small mouse print that warns it's probably not available. They've had plenty of time to change the picture.
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