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For $19/night, I wonder just what you actually get...
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@thecpuwizard that can't possibly be right. $19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast, let alone the room...
Also I notice that the tab says the rates start at $284. In fact, all 4 of the tabs... identical tabs... say that. I think the website is just very, very broken.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Discount Hotels....:
For $19/night, I wonder just what you actually get...
Bed bugs. The answer is definitely bed bugs.
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@anotherusername said in Discount Hotels....:
$19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast
You kidding? That probably costs the hotel about $3, if that much.
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@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
$19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast
You kidding? That probably costs the hotel about $3, if that much.
Depends. "Hot breakfast" can be anything from toasted bagels to an actual, nice breakfast. There are hotel chains which serve eggs cooked in multiple ways, salmon and champagne for breakfast and there are those shitty chains where you're lucky if you get anything else than cream cheese and an egg which was cooked to death.
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@asdf Yeah, but complimentary hot breakfast tends to be a little mini-buffet with sausage and bacon, fluffy plastic stuff that claims to be scrambled eggs, chopped-fruit-platter fruit, yogurt, breakfast cereal, maybe waffles if you're lucky, and a juice machine offering apple, orange, and some third thing. At pretty much every hotel ever that serves "complimentary hot breakfast."
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@masonwheeler I've stayed at hotels where you didn't even get fruit and yoghurt, and where they ran out of scrambled eggs at 8:15.
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@masonwheeler well, 2 guests per room, so it has to cover 2 breakfasts... plus, I didn't just mean for the food; it does occupy some of their employees' time to keep it stocked and isn't the minimum wage there something outlandish like $15 per hour or so?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Discount Hotels....:
For $19/night, I wonder just what you actually get...
You get just what it says. A bed.
No room, nothing else. Just a bed. In the back parking lot next to a dumpster.
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@anotherusername said in Discount Hotels....:
@thecpuwizard that can't possibly be right. $19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast, let alone the room...
Also I notice that the tab says the rates start at $284. In fact, all 4 of the tabs... identical tabs... say that. I think the website is just very, very broken.
Indeed, but TDWTF focuses on broken web-sites so I posted... Attempt to click on any of the "low priced" went to a page with the proper pricing... (but the error did survive multiple page refreshes)
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@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
@asdf Yeah, but complimentary hot breakfast tends to be a little mini-buffet with sausage and bacon, fluffy plastic stuff that claims to be scrambled eggs, chopped-fruit-platter fruit, yogurt, breakfast cereal, maybe waffles if you're lucky, and a juice machine offering apple, orange, and some third thing. At pretty much every hotel ever that serves "complimentary hot breakfast."
I've occasionally gone to carpet Hilton hotels. One of them, one we went to several times, had all the basic stuff plus a cook that would make some things to order. It was pretty nice.
There was also a cocktail hour or something like that most nights too, with various appetizers free and others you could order.
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I've never been able to understand "continental breakfast". Seriously, on what continent is a cup of instant coffee and a donut considered "breakfast", Antarctica?
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@da-doctah said in Discount Hotels....:
I've never been able to understand "continental breakfast". Seriously, on what continent is a cup of instant coffee and a donut considered "breakfast", Antarctica?
See: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/37939/origin-of-continental-breakfast
Which includes this except, from 1896:
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@dreikin said in Discount Hotels....:
I've occasionally gone to carpet Hilton hotels.
What does "carpet Hilton hotels" mean, out of curiosity? Never heard that modifier used before. Just came back from a rather nice stay at a Hilton (no complimentary breakfast, though, $22 for the breakfast bar in the restaurant in the hotel; fuck that).
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@heterodox said in Discount Hotels....:
@dreikin said in Discount Hotels....:
I've occasionally gone to carpet Hilton hotels.
What does "carpet Hilton hotels" mean, out of curiosity? Never heard that modifier used before.
Installing carpet in them. I think in that particular one we did all the hallways one time, then all the rooms another time. It was in Delaware, IIRC, although that's not the only one I've worked in.
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@dreikin said in Discount Hotels....:
Installing carpet in them. I think in that particular one we did all the hallways one time, then all the rooms another time. It was in Delaware, IIRC, although that's not the only one I've worked in.
Oh, duh. Used as a verb and not an adjective; I just can't read. Thought you were distinguishing between various hotels in the chain.
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@da-doctah said in Discount Hotels....:
on what continent is a cup of instant coffee and a donut considered "breakfast",
Sounds like what various American TV shows have made me think of as a standard US breakfast.
IME, a continental breakfast is various cold cooked meats, hard boiled eggs and some form of bread.
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@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
complimentary hot breakfast tends to be a little mini-buffet with sausage and bacon, fluffy plastic stuff that claims to be scrambled eggs, chopped-fruit-platter fruit, yogurt, breakfast cereal, maybe waffles if you're lucky, and a juice machine offering apple, orange, and some third thing.
And by "complementary", you're allowed to pick at most one thing from that list.
@heterodox said in Discount Hotels....:
Oh, duh. Used as a verb and not an adjective; I just can't read. Thought you were distinguishing between various hotels in the chain.
You're not the only one who read it as an adjective.
Had this been a DIY forum OTOH...
@jaloopa said in Discount Hotels....:
IME, a continental breakfast is various cold cooked meats, hard boiled eggs and some form of bread.
IOW, "make your own packed lunch while eating your breakfast."
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@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
@tsaukpaetra said in Discount Hotels....:
For $19/night, I wonder just what you actually get...
Bed bugs. The answer is definitely bed bugs.
Those should cost extra.
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@pjh said in Discount Hotels....:
IOW, "make your own packed lunch while eating your breakfast."
AKA "how to make people think you are Dutch"
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@shoreline said in Discount Hotels....:
Those should cost extra.
What are you, a Thenardier?
Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut
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@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Les Misérables: 11- Master Of The House – 04:56
— Mikazukiful
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@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
@tsaukpaetra said in Discount Hotels....:
For $19/night, I wonder just what you actually get...
Bed bugs. The answer is definitely bed bugs.
They're not bugs, they're features! CLOSED_WONTFIX.
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@doctorjones said in Discount Hotels....:
@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
Bed bugs. The answer is definitely bed bugs.
They're not bugs, they're features! CLOSED_WONTFIX.
Not even Jeff would claim that something that literally bites you in the ass every night is not a bug.
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@asdf clearly you've never been over to meta.doscourse
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@doctorjones said in Discount Hotels....:
clearly you've never been over to meta.doscourse
I have, I'd just rather have my phone overheat than those itchy bites.
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@doctorjones
Whow ... your bed has soooo many features!
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@masonwheeler Imagine a week of over the road travel. Different hotel every night, all at the same $100-150 a night price point.
I had "free Continental breakfast" offerings of:
- A breadbox containing nothing but penicillin
- Typical buffet with the fruit and the DIY waffles and the tray of yellow "egg" and super low quality meats
- Full up breakfast sandwiches and other entrees such that you would see at a restaurant prepared by an actual kitchen staff
- A Cheerios dispenser
- A really fucking good cookie and a spread of bagels
The only dupe was another yellow egg buffet.
The seventh hotel didn't advertise one and incidentally, also didn't have one.
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@jaloopa said in Discount Hotels....:
@da-doctah said in Discount Hotels....:
on what continent is a cup of instant coffee and a donut considered "breakfast",
Sounds like what various American TV shows have made me think of as a standard US breakfast.
IME, a continental breakfast is various cold cooked meats, hard boiled eggs and some form of bread.
The complementary "continental breakfast" at US hotels may include:
- coffee, water, milk, fruit juice (apple, orange, cranberry)
- cereal, the dry kind that people typically eat in milk
- fruit... apples, bananas, oranges
- sometimes yogurt
- instant oatmeal packages, add water and microwave
- waffle batter, for use in the waffle maker
- bread, bagels, donuts, danishes, biscuits
- condiments... salt, pepper, sugar, creamer, butter or margarine, cream cheese spread, jelly/jam, honey, syrup, ketchup, hot sauce (sometimes)
- sometimes they have gravy to put on the biscuits... sometimes it's good, but sometimes it's pretty blah
- eggs, hard boiled or scrambled... the scrambled eggs are usually made from powdered egg
- meat, if you're lucky... usually just one option: sausage, ham, or bacon
A microwave, toaster, and waffle maker are typically available.
Typically I look for hotels that advertise a free hot breakfast, because it means they'll have waffles and usually some type of protein -- eggs and sometimes meat. I find that they generally don't cost much more, so there's no reason not to be a little bit picky.
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@anotherusername well, you are on a different continent, it shouldn't be surprising that the continental breakfast is something different
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@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
@shoreline said in Discount Hotels....:
Those should cost extra.
What are you, a Thenardier?
Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shutPlease. I supply only quality bed bugs.
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@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
$19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast
You kidding? That probably costs the hotel about $3, if that much.
Depends. "Hot breakfast" can be anything from toasted bagels to an actual, nice breakfast. There are hotel chains which serve eggs cooked in multiple ways, salmon and champagne for breakfast and there are those shitty chains where you're lucky if you get anything else than cream cheese and an egg which was cooked to death.
Don't forget the DIY waffle iron that some fuckhead will load up and then walk off and forget and it will sit there beeping until someone gets up and clears the charred waffle corpse from.
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@jaloopa said in Discount Hotels....:
@da-doctah said in Discount Hotels....:
on what continent is a cup of instant coffee and a donut considered "breakfast",
Sounds like what various American TV shows have made me think of as a standard US breakfast.
IME, a continental breakfast is various cold cooked meats, hard boiled eggs and some form of bread.
You're British, you forgot the beans.
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@polygeekery said in Discount Hotels....:
You're British, you forgot the beans.
They're not in the continental breakfast. The only hot things in a continental breakfast are toast and your choice of caffeinated beverage.
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@polygeekery said in Discount Hotels....:
You're British, you forgot the beans.
No, that's Mexican food, not British. :P
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What about spam?
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@el_heffe said in Discount Hotels....:
@tsaukpaetra said in Discount Hotels....:
For $19/night, I wonder just what you actually get...
You get just what it says. A bed.
No room, nothing else. Just a bed. In the back parking lot next to a dumpster.
A bed. And a companion. You may even get paid, instead of getting murdered by @Lorne-Kates
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@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
@doctorjones said in Discount Hotels....:
@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
Bed bugs. The answer is definitely bed bugs.
They're not bugs, they're features! CLOSED_WONTFIX.
Not even Jeff would claim that something that literally bites you in the ass every night is not a bug.
Sounds like an ordinary kink to me...
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@masonwheeler Not at a Marriott.
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@polygeekery said in Discount Hotels....:
@jaloopa said in Discount Hotels....:
@da-doctah said in Discount Hotels....:
on what continent is a cup of instant coffee and a donut considered "breakfast",
Sounds like what various American TV shows have made me think of as a standard US breakfast.
IME, a continental breakfast is various cold cooked meats, hard boiled eggs and some form of bread.
You're British, you forgot the beans.
Britain isn't on the continent. A full English is completely different, and superior to all other breakfasts
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@jaloopa I got indigestion the first time I even saw a picture of a Full Breakfast.
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@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
They're not bugs, they're features! CLOSED_WONTFIX.
Not even Jeff would claim that something that literally bites you in the ass every night is not a bug.
- The software equivalent of a bed bug
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@jaloopa said in Discount Hotels....:
A full English is completely different, and superior to all other breakfasts
The phrase "full English" always conjures up the same image for me:
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@carrievs said in Discount Hotels....:
The only hot things in a continental breakfast are toast and your choice of caffeinated beverage.
How to confuse staff in the restaurant of the Hilton London Olympia in one easy step: ask for a few slices of untoasted bread and a glass of milk. On each of the four mornings I stayed there, I got puzzled looks and had to repeat my request at least once, if not twice.
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@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
No, that's Mexican food, not British.
You are wrong. The usual British cooked breakfast will include baked beans by default. Alongside some combination of bacon, egg, sausage, black pudding, tomato, mushrooms, fried potato, toast, etc. Actually good hotels will also have other options available, such as kippers, devilled kidneys, perhaps a kedgeree, eggs benedict, etc.
Not that there's anything wrong with Mexican breakfasts. And I do miss the option to have omelette, which I've seen in many US hotels.
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@polygeekery said in Discount Hotels....:
@asdf said in Discount Hotels....:
@masonwheeler said in Discount Hotels....:
$19 probably wouldn't cover the hotel's cost for the complementary hot breakfast
You kidding? That probably costs the hotel about $3, if that much.
Depends. "Hot breakfast" can be anything from toasted bagels to an actual, nice breakfast. There are hotel chains which serve eggs cooked in multiple ways, salmon and champagne for breakfast and there are those shitty chains where you're lucky if you get anything else than cream cheese and an egg which was cooked to death.
Don't forget the DIY waffle iron that some fuckhead will load up and then walk off and forget and it will sit there beeping until someone gets up and clears the charred waffle corpse from.
First time I stayed at a shiny new Ibis Hotel, they had a deal on where breakfast was like $5 extra per day or something, so I took it. I wish they had had a self serve waffle machine because while they had waffles, they just had them sitting out, and by the time I got to the breakfast at around 8:30-9am, the waffles were hard and horrible and were probably equivalent in consistency to a waffle corpse.
Nowadays I usually skip the hotel breakfast option, if only because they're usually $20+ and I don't eat a huge breakfast, and either go to a supermarket and buy some juice and yoghurt to store in my room or find a cafe and go there and have a nice breakfast. Or if I'm in Adelaide on a Sunday, I go to Ikea and have $3 pancakes.
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