Devaluation of Breakfast Benefit at Hyatt Place
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Devaluation of Breakfast Benefit at Hyatt Place
Here is some info on the change.
https://onemileatatime.com/hyatt-place-breakfast/
I understand there are 20 Hyatt Place hotels in the pilot program. Does anyone know where a list is posted?
https://onemileatatime.com/hyatt-place-breakfast/
I understand there are 20 Hyatt Place hotels in the pilot program. Does anyone know where a list is posted?
#2
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
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I was at Hyatt Place near IAD recently, and they had breakfast sandwiches for sale in their glass case (like Starbucks). But then in Dallas they had the Jimmy Dean sandwich complimentary.
#3
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond
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“World of Hyatt Globalist Members will receive one free hot paid at these properties”.
I can’t help but wonder if they mean one free hot meal/item per registered guest stayed in a Globalist Room (up to 2 Adults and 2 Children).
I can’t help but wonder if they mean one free hot meal/item per registered guest stayed in a Globalist Room (up to 2 Adults and 2 Children).
#4
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https://thepointsguy.com/news/hyatt-...kfast-changes/
"World of Hyatt Globalist members will continue to receive free breakfast at all Hyatt Place locations worldwide, including at these pilot hotels. This top-tier elite perk is limited to two adults and two children occupying the same room as the Globalist member. (A Globalist staying at a pilot hotel is entitled to one paid item per registered guest.)"
#5
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Los Angeles
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The points guy reflects your understanding.
https://thepointsguy.com/news/hyatt-...kfast-changes/
"World of Hyatt Globalist members will continue to receive free breakfast at all Hyatt Place locations worldwide, including at these pilot hotels. This top-tier elite perk is limited to two adults and two children occupying the same room as the Globalist member. (A Globalist staying at a pilot hotel is entitled to one paid item per registered guest.)"
https://thepointsguy.com/news/hyatt-...kfast-changes/
"World of Hyatt Globalist members will continue to receive free breakfast at all Hyatt Place locations worldwide, including at these pilot hotels. This top-tier elite perk is limited to two adults and two children occupying the same room as the Globalist member. (A Globalist staying at a pilot hotel is entitled to one paid item per registered guest.)"
Hyatt House literally handed us some 99 cent store freezer section sausages and off brand pancakes frozen solid and told us to cook them ourselves along with an apple. That’s just a terrible offering in general, even a Holiday Inn wouldn’t do that.
I was hoping they’d consider changes to HH Breakfast as well.
#6
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 70
Currently here at a HP in Mexico and the breakfast is very good, even though the choices are very limited. They offer a few cold cereals, fruit, pastries, and yogurt, which are all pre-wrapped. For hot choices, there are 4 hot items you can order, all of which taste like regular restaurant quality. I like being limited to a handful of good quality choices because I tend to overeat when there are a million stations of delicious looking items. But if I'm staying at a higher end brand, I do want to indulge myself on a decadent buffet breakfast. Hotels should know better than to take away too many perks.
#7
Join Date: Aug 2020
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Currently here at a HP in Mexico and the breakfast is very good, even though the choices are very limited. They offer a few cold cereals, fruit, pastries, and yogurt, which are all pre-wrapped. For hot choices, there are 4 hot items you can order, all of which taste like regular restaurant quality. I like being limited to a handful of good quality choices because I tend to overeat when there are a million stations of delicious looking items. But if I'm staying at a higher end brand, I do want to indulge myself on a decadent buffet breakfast. Hotels should know better than to take away too many perks.
#8
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Many HPs in the USA have been posting that breakfast would start to be free only for WOH members and I've been wondering how they could ever enforce this, given the open lobby areas including the breakfast buffet and seating areas combined with limited staffing. How profitable is it to pay someone (even at minimum wage) to guard the buffet for several hours every morning and check credentials?
#9
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My Current Breakfast Choices at HP
Frosted flakes, instant oatmeal packets, packaged blueberry muffins, apples, oranges, vanilla yogurt, milk, apple juice, orange juice
PS I wish I was in Mexico.
Frosted flakes, instant oatmeal packets, packaged blueberry muffins, apples, oranges, vanilla yogurt, milk, apple juice, orange juice
PS I wish I was in Mexico.
#11
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Many HPs in the USA have been posting that breakfast would start to be free only for WOH members and I've been wondering how they could ever enforce this, given the open lobby areas including the breakfast buffet and seating areas combined with limited staffing. How profitable is it to pay someone (even at minimum wage) to guard the buffet for several hours every morning and check credentials?
#12
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Looking at this change it is obviously a transition away from free breakfast. I anticipate there will be little interest in the Continental Breakfast offering that is given (I mean, many of these breakfast bags are so bad they aren't even worth taking) and ultimately that will be quietly dropped. Maybe they will throw a bowl of bananas and a few shrink wrapped defrosted muffins or danish next to the free coffee to at least say they offer "something" free.
One thing you can say for this is at least in the US it appears they will be doing a consistent offering from location to location after they get past the pilot period. A lot of other chains are really struggling with consistency on the breakfast program right now.
One thing you can say for this is at least in the US it appears they will be doing a consistent offering from location to location after they get past the pilot period. A lot of other chains are really struggling with consistency on the breakfast program right now.
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When HGP first started, USA HRs had coffee self serve urns and big baskets of muffins near the elevators on HGP floors. If was a small free continental breakfast and a nice perk for HGP members.
#14
Join Date: Aug 2020
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I was interested in HC Leon, but everyone says the location sucks for tourists...
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I just stayed at a USA HP that had a system where people were asked to order grab and go breakfast in advance, although I didn't have the impression that they were prepared in advance. There was one hot and one cold choice each morning, on a rotating schedule for variety. Each breakfast bag included a large glass of orange juice, yogurt, cut fruit (melon, etc.), and a big green apple. Surprisingly (and funnily), coffee and tea were freely available in the lobby during breakfast hours, self serve. The market had pastries, cakes, and bottled/canned beverages, with no salads or sandwiches, but one could presumably order drinks or barista coffees.
I thought this was better than the pre-improvement HP breakfasts, but not as good as the local bacon, monkey bread, waffles, berries, etc. on that I saw on the buffet more recently preCOVID-19.
I thought this was better than the pre-improvement HP breakfasts, but not as good as the local bacon, monkey bread, waffles, berries, etc. on that I saw on the buffet more recently preCOVID-19.