Originally Posted by
demue
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.
And you can't compare a HIX prefab breakfast (although I can see how it can be better quality in Hong Kong than North America) to an IC breakfast. Not all breakfasts are created equal!