Paying for breakfast
Oct 24, 2011 | 12:09 pm
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I'm currently pondering a hotel where breakfast will be $35 each for two of us. $210 over the three days seems astronomical! My mother, who I will be travelling with, is a huge hotel breakfast person - she is tiny, but will eat enough at a hotel breakfast to put two linebackers to shame! It keeps her going until evening, so I guess it is worth it for her. This particular one also has cava at breakfast, which is a plus for me, as the days will include a lot of museums I suspect!
Oct 24, 2011 | 5:04 pm
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By contrast, the $100 dinner people are thinking of is most likely fine steak and/or fish, gourmet prepared vegetables, and wine, beer, or cocktails. Serve it at 9am and it's still worth $100. It's not the time of day or name of the meal that counts, it's the type and quality of the food.
This is true to an extent... but I'm also far less likely to be interested in that kind of meal at 9 a.m.
My most expensive meal ever was lunch at a 3* Michelin restaurant ... but they serve pretty much that exact same meal during evening hours for 2 1/2 times the cost. So you can't completely discount that "time of day" contributes to perceived value.
Oct 24, 2011 | 5:34 pm
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Oct 24, 2011 | 5:40 pm
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$25 for breakfast? I am much more budget than $100 for dinner and that would be a very expensive bfast for me.... But then I like a bakery breakfast!
Oct 24, 2011 | 5:50 pm
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Oct 25, 2011 | 5:15 am
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I would never knowingly pay $25 for breakfast. If it's not included in my room rate, then I don't bother. Even then, if they're charging say $20 extra over a room only rate, I won't pay it. Far easier to walk a block or so to a 7-11 or similar and buy a smoothie etc for a few $ (unless of course I'm i the middle of nowhere and there's no options and I'm so hungry it leaves me no real choice)
Last time I was in NYC, I went to a deli for breakfast and got a cream cheese bagel and smoothie for around $4. Very filling.
As for paying $100 for dinner, frown on that even more. I can't justify paying something like $20-30 for a plate with a tiny piece of meat, two bits of asparagus and a dribbling of some sauce in a fancy restaurant which they call a main course. Would much rather save $90 and hit somewhere like McDonalds as it at least fills you up.
Last time I was in NYC, I went to a deli for breakfast and got a cream cheese bagel and smoothie for around $4. Very filling.
As for paying $100 for dinner, frown on that even more. I can't justify paying something like $20-30 for a plate with a tiny piece of meat, two bits of asparagus and a dribbling of some sauce in a fancy restaurant which they call a main course. Would much rather save $90 and hit somewhere like McDonalds as it at least fills you up.
Oct 25, 2011 | 11:50 am
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Oct 30, 2011 | 3:03 pm
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Am I the only one who really resents it and refuses to see the value?
I will happily pay $100/head for dinner, but try to charge me $25 for breakfast and I will run screaming out the door (to the nearest bakery).
I guess it's all the hotels offering 'free' breakfast, but basically if a hotel's breakfast is more than a few dollars I will try to avoid it (if my wife will let me).
I will happily pay $100/head for dinner, but try to charge me $25 for breakfast and I will run screaming out the door (to the nearest bakery).
I guess it's all the hotels offering 'free' breakfast, but basically if a hotel's breakfast is more than a few dollars I will try to avoid it (if my wife will let me).