Originally Posted by
unfrequentflyer
Breakfast is way overrated. Once I spent 45 days in an HIX in Hong Kong, The hotel gave me free breakfast for the whole duration. I only ate there once. Always went outside for breakfast.
Given free breakfast is included for everyone free at every Express by Holiday Inn worldwide (it is a chain benefit/ selling point) this is nothing out of the ordinary and what you were entitled too not via status but by staying at this particular brand.