Mrs Northants JP and I recently stayed in a 5* hotel in London. One morning we decided to treat ourselves to breakfast in bed, I fancied the English breakfast, Mrs Northants wanted cereal, croissant fruit and tea. Accroding to the room service menu, mine would cost £24 and Mrs Northants' £20 - £44 in total!!!! If we went A La Carte it would come in at over £50....

But then we noticed....

On the tick boxe menu there was no "or" , "tick one only" instructions - so we ticked that we wanted one English breakfast and then ticked that we wanted ALL options within that

4 different fruit juices
Coffee
Tea
Milk
Croissants
Danish
Toast
Cereal
Fruit Salad
Eggs
Bacon
Mushroom
Sausages
Hash Browns
Vine Tomatoes
Black Puudding
Sauces, Butter and preserves

Plenty for the 2 of us with stuff left over for lunch and all at the cost of 1 breakfast and a saving of £20. Staff didn't blink an eyelid when they delivered it and I signed for one breakfast.

Is what we did common practice amongst other travellers, it just seems an ideal way to get more for your money, particularly when 1 of you wants something different from the other (obviously it wouldn't have worked if we wanted the same thing)?

Should I feel guilty for doing this? No, I don't think I should - The hotel wanted to originally charge me £6 for each fruit juice and £8 for the coffee at those prices it's they who are trying to fleece me....