I agree with you. In general, European hotels offer a good selection on buffets. Maybe not always complete with missing salmon or waffles or anything else. IMO, the variety ought to be good enough for anybody.

The Courtyards around Frankfurt offer for example filled pancakes, selection of cereals, selection of quark dishes, muesli, selection of jam, bacon, sausages, hot meatloaf, omelette, salmon, mackerel, selection of sliced sausages and cheese, fruits, bread, Danish pastries, etc.
The difference to the Marriott is the food quality: Quark dishes, muesli or other food is often made by the hotel itself, while cheaper hotels buy more food. Eggs/Omelettes are pre-cooked in cheaper hotels; a cook will do it at request in more luxurious hotels.

My favourite breakfast buffet has
- fresh fruits
- cereals, muesli, quark dishes
- fruit juice without sugar
- salmon
- cheese
- coffee and tea (tea leaf, no tea bags)

County Hall in London

...but that was 2 years ago...

That was my experience with the CY Frankfurt in Nordwestzentrum. For some reason, seeing seafood at breakfast seems to bump the breakfast up a notch.


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I will second the Bangkok Riverside Resort as the best. Second: Ren Lounge in Kuala Lumpur. Third: Leipzig, Germany.

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Absolutely! Also, I admit I like European-style buffets with lots o' cold meats and really tasty cheeses, even though I usually try to do mostly low-fat breakfasts, just fruit and yogurt or cereal, and some bread-like object.

Renaissance Hotels should be just fine, at least comparable to full service Marriotts. I have fond memories, for instance, of the Ilikai Renaissance's breakfast buffet - the hotel was rather iffy in 2000 in many respects, but the buffet, with practically a double American/Japanese presentation, was just fine.

Courtyards in the US, however - unlike those cited in Europe - I would consider suspect. foodguy is right: they're hit or miss. If we get comped, we'll have some fruit & cereal, but we would never pay for one.

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Those coldcuts and cheeses in the morning at the Europe properties usually are sufficient to allow me to skip lunch and have a late dinner, which you would usually do anyways if you're a local.

We just stayed there for a week and the breakfast buffet is awesome.

Dim Sum, Thai food, American eggs/potatoes/sausage/bacon...and the most unbelievable fruit.

Great place.

Camelback breakfast is great but their dinners are better :-)

Best Marriott breakfast so far was at Marriott Karachi.
Each morning I was a bit too full to subsequently walk onto an oil refinery.
But the heat and walking up and down columns allowed me to burn it off.

I'm a little partial to the World Center--especially when I am with the family and it is comped!!

Marriott Coronado Island has an awesome breakfast buffet. Lox and bagels, eggs benedict, and little baked pears stuffed with granola.

My choice is the downtown PDX Marriott.

I wasn't all that impressed with the buffet at Parc 55 either. But then, I am happy with the freebie at FI. :)

Buffets usually gross me out unless I am both (a) gambling, and (b) drunk, but I thought the one at the Renaissance Wailea was spectacular. It was included in our room rate, so we ate it every morning. (Otherwise, I avoid hotel breakfasts like the plague.)

This one truly breaks the mold for hotelfood. Beautiful open air seating, wonderful fruits, fresh breads, plus the usual hot foods.

Andover, MA used to have one, too. Haven't been there in a few years, though. Also, the CY in Brandon, FL (outside TPA) had a good one as well.