Originally Posted by
joshua362
[$10 for two people] is about what it is worth to me as I'm generally not a big fan or needer of the meal.
But go ahead and try spend that $5 per person when you are captive at a resort or large hotel (San Diego Marquis comes to mind) and/or pressed for time and see if that even covers a cup of coffee!
I agree. The value of breakfast to me varies enormously with the specifics of the situation. When inexpensive alternatives such as convenience stores, bakeries, or street vendors are easy to reach from the hotel given my constraints of schedule and available transportation, breakfast is worth about $5 -- because that's what I'd spend at one of these alternatives. But when such cheap alternatives are not present, or not reachable given the realities of schedule and transportation, the only alternative may well be the hotel restaurant -- which can run from $10 to $40 per person for a modest meal depending on the local economy.