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Old Apr 23, 2023 | 1:45 pm
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Originally Posted by krazykanuck
They seem to not always mention it as an option. On my first stay, they made no mention of it and I had the pitiful breakfast in the club. On my second stay, I asked about breakfast and was told I could have in the restaurant or the club. Looking back at my post from November, it looks as if they're still using the same batch of eggs.

Truly my apologies for not posting a review from my stay a few weeks ago. It seems I wrote this on a plane and never posted it it would have helped you avoid this:

This week A few weeks ago I had a one night stay here, again, this time to tick off the first stay requirement for the current Bonus Journeys promo. Also I had a cat 1-4 cert expiring May 1 with no other use, and I suppose I needed a place to sleep for the night

I don't know if this is a recent change, or was overlooked last time I was here in Nov. 2022, but I was told I could have breakfast either in the restaurant or lounge. Given the rather miserable hot food in the lounge (it hasn't improved, the eggs looked the same as the pic I took ^ 5 months ago), I was happy to have breakfast in the restaurant. The eggs bennie were decent and service good.

The Grand Club here perplexes me. The breakfast is crap compared to the restaurant, and the evening happy hour/snacks are more/less the same as they were 5 months ago. A bunch of odd canapes that aren't described by the menu cards, some cold cuts and cheese, and a rotating hot option. Both the night I stayed there and the night I departed, they had the same hot option, pulled pork to make tacos, which I heard another guest say "guess they just used the leftovers from last night!" which given their lack of caring about variety/quality, there's a reasonable chance that guest was right! I mean I eat leftovers at home, but that's not what I would expect from a property that charges $300/nt. Aside from that, the drinks flowed freely from a friendly lounge attendant.
Thank you for the note - if I were to ever return, I will use this data point. Regardless, they should not be offering such a crappy lounge offering and just shutter it in favor of the restaurant in the morning. If they're looking to offer a grab-and-go for some, fine, please tell me all of my options (even in Spanish - I can figure out "desayuno en un restaurante").

For comparison, the JW offers elites both restaurant and lounge breakfast choices, and the lounge has its own chef for made-to-order eggs (probably one of the best omelets I've had in a long time).
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