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Old Feb 26, 2009 | 1:57 am
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Originally Posted by OB one
If that is the MyWay preference you have selected, you get breakfast instead of free internet or 1000 points.

That said, there are plenty of properties that provide a dismal offering ranging from a bagel and coffee at Starbucks to old fruit and stale bread and cold coffee in a room next to the elevator to some properties that offer just cold buffett but with plenty of choices and appetizing too to some properties that provide a full scale hot buffett or almost anything off the menu. YMMV. And there ar some properties that are just obstinate and say "we don't participate in HHonors." It is best to avoid the latter properties entirely, imho.
Luckily for me, I have never stayed at any HHonors property that gave only a "dismal offering" for breakfast.

Also note that the breakfast offerings for elites vary per chain, so a re-read of the HHonors website is in order. (Of course, some chains, such as Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites, and Homewood Suites, already include buffet breakfast in ALL room rates; of these three, ES's buffet is generally the best, Homewood second, Hampton third.)
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