Originally Posted by
nrouxel
At hilton you get a complimentary continental breakfast for you and up to one additional guest registered to the same room each day of your stay (diamond). In europe, you nearly always get a full buffet breakfast, but inside the US, you usually get only complimentary continental breakfast.
You get that at gold level as well, not just diamond. Things are better now but in the past, there were wide variations between properties and some US properties were especially stingy. As you say, European (or for that matter Asian) Hilton properties tend to be better and offer the full buffet breakfast.