It's specifically timed: you get up and get dressed for the free breakfast, get back to your room and you're like, "Well, I'm already up and dressed and everything, I might as well hit the road!" And you leave, conveniently leaving the room available for Housekeeping to clean for those early arrivals.

Amusement parks will do something similar: time a fireworks display in a central-ish area near the end of the night. Everyone comes to the fireworks, they end and everyone looks at tl the time and is like, "Well, there's just enough time for one more ride / snack / set of games", and then we'll have to leave," ignoring the way you've been collected to a central(ish) location and primed to leave, making the job for closing security much easier.

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

Hotel: Advertises full breakfast

Me:I'm so hungry, its great that I don't have to cook

Breakfast: We have pre-made heat lamp eggs, Bacon and sausage are only served til 7am, the toaster doesn't work at the moment, all the fruit was eaten but you can have all the cereal and shitty hotel muffins you want!

And you better be up at 6:30 to put your towel on a pool chair. We tell you not to do it but do nothing about it. Enjoy!

My favourite one so far offered breakfast & brunch until 1pm.

Just as bad is if you're a morning person but they don't serve breakfast until like 10.

"The best stuff" at a Continental breakfast anymore is prepackaged, unfortunately. The eggs are gross, the baked goods are stale, and it's always disappointing. I barely even try it anymore and bring my own stuff rather than suffering through that crap.

That's okay, hotel breakfasts are almost always awful in my experience.

Most hotels I've been put up in for work don't even have a free breakfast. If your lucky you'll get some coffee and maybe a free cookie from the lobby if they have them out.

Pretty much every holiday inn I stay at for work has had a decent breakfast. They run 6:30 to 9 and keeps things well stocked at least until 8 (I'm never there later)

They've all had the same "menu", plus or minus a few things. They tend to rotate the hot items every otherday.

• An omelet thing, cheese or veggie
• Scrambled eggs
• Home Frys
• Gravey and bisket
• Sausage and/or bacon
• A 1-minute pancake machine that usually works...kind of
• Ceareal
• fruit
• A juice machine
• Coffe
• Hot water
• Hot cocoa packs
• Tea pouches
• Milk cartons (these are usually terrible, a lot are weird "organic" brands or "skimed to be 90% water")
• Yogurt
• Bagles, English muffins, and toast
• Cinnamon rolls
• Muffin

• A belgian waffle machine that is caked in burnt dough

• The bacon is flimsy and under cooked

• Plain bagels stiff from being left out too long and a load of white break next to a toaster you have to cycle 3 times

• The kids leave a plate full of waffles floating in a pool of syrup, 4 bites taken

• Half the 4 seater tables are taken up by 1 person, with plenty of 2-seaters wide open

• Regular and decaf coffee that tastes burnt, and only powdered creamer, offers tea but it's so picked over it's 2-3 types of fruity chai or chamomile, green tea.

Uh, yeah, we got a raisin... Oh it's just raisins. We've got raisins. Ope, that kid just took them.

It's easy, really. Just sleep in enough and start with lunch, at least that's what I do whenever I can.

This is a myth. Unless you are dead tired and utterly exhausted, you'll never sleep all that well in a hotel room because in the back of your little mammalian brain you'll always "know" that it's not "home," and you won't ever feel entirely comfortable until you've slept there for a few nights.

So it's not really like the "escape" herein described.

Unless you travel all the time, in which case again, it's not really an "escape" and is just more of the same.

The best one is airport hotels you can get an full-on breakfast at 4:00am in the morning it's fantastic. Especially useful if their 4:00 a.m. is your 3:00 p.m. and you can have an afternoon snack.