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    If you’re not maniacally ripping every minute of theoretical fun out of your vacation with an insane timetable that begins at 0500, you’re probably rich enough that your dietician has you fasting intermittently.

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      I am thinking about it the other way around. Most people consider vacations as a chance to get rest, because they are working starting 5 in the morning for the rest of the year.

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      That’s the conundrum - for many people anything that follows a timetable is not fun per definition.

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        You will not find that I have said so. Hope this message finds you comfortably hungover and ten-fingered this Roswell Day

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    You got me fucked up if I’m waking up early on my master approved break from wage slaving. I’m waking up at noon and I’m having a bowl for breakfast.

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          high up in the hotel because the club level’s breakfast has an omelette station.

          After smoking marijuana of course

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            The smoked marinara dipping sauce is a regional favorite, complementary offered at all meals to the hotel’s guests.

            After inhaling thc vapors purely for recreation of course

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              The gnc flavors of vitamins go well with a healthy bowl of fresh fruit for your daily nutritional and fiber needs.

              After freebasing an eight-ball of crack cocaine of course.

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                Freeshotting the 8-ball without cracking the pool table cloth.

                After smoking a blunt while listening to Bob Marley of course.

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    We’ve let morning neurotypicals rule over us for too long!!

    It is time to rebel & rebuilt!
    (But a bit later, it’s like 9am here)

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      I honestly aggree. I arranged my shit quite well, started working late, worked till it’s late. It is how I like it, I get really productive at ~15:00 till ~19:00. Now my children go to school (therefore I have to get up early) and they banned working after 18:00 at my company (thanks labour union, I get what you wanted to do, but you screwed me). My productivity dropped so much it stresses me out and I am constantly tired, because I don’t sleep enough.

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        Same - I’ve basically forced my employer to de facto let me work whenever I want.

        I mean, they just like the output they get and with literally no drawbacks, so it’s especially shitty knowing that I’ve basically been fighting some … traditions?

        Its literally just full on discrimination (as classification I mean), it’s just too much of a dispersed problem to gain attention & we are all brainwashed (starring late is considered lazy yet finishing early isn’t).

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    And a sign up that says YOU MUST NOT TAKE THINGS FROM THE BREAKFAST ROOM!

    Yeah, fuck you. Pockets full of churros.

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      ahh that brings back my memory of sneaking out lettuce from the hotel cafeteria so I can give it to the local perfume & tea shop keeper’s tortoise, talking with the locals is the best

      look at this tiny big chomp :)

      tiny tortoise eating cafeteria lettuce

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    This is why you don’t pay for breakfast (if you have the option), wake up late at your time and go discover a local spot and some food to eat as breakfast/lunch item.

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    You know another way you’re not allowed to be lazy on vacation?

    If you get an AirBnB, you have to clean the place before you leave.

    Hotels have cleaners who clean your room so you can leave it a mess. I shouldn’t have to do chores when I’m on vacation. One of many reasons I prefer hotels.

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      Only reason I use an AirBNB is if it’s a unique location where there are no hotels (like a cabin in the woods on a river or something) but I agree, I only book ones that don’t have a ridiculous checkout policy.

      I also hate that private equity has taken over towns with short term rentals making the rest of us pay more in rent.

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        We once used it back when it really was just individual people with extra places renting them out short-term when we stayed in New York, but that was like 2009. And then my mom insisted on paying for one when she went with me to the Mayo Clinic earlier this year, but at least it was just someone renting out the bottom half of the duplex they owned and not a corporation… but yeah, unless there’s just not another good option, I’m not doing AirBnB when it’s my choice.

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        What is the cleaning fee for?

        It goes towards the owner’s next single-family home that they’ll turn into a rental

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    Our vacation days generally consist of stalking the area for good food and doing tourist-y things to fill the time between meals. My partner’s favorite thing to do during vacation downtime is to find more restaurants and cafes in the area for the next day, so hotel food is never a factor.

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        City vacations: restaurant hunting

        Nature vacations: grueling 6am deathmarch #87

        Beach vacations: binge drinking and washing sand out of things

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    The worst breakfast I ever had was at a Courtyard Marriott that was under renovation. Since then, I made a policy to find the best local breakfast diner any place I went, even if the hotel breakfast was included.

    Haven’t regretted it once.

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      That was how I learned Boston has no good breakfast spots.

      Also the hotel only served breakfast on certain days of the week? What the fuck is that about. But they gave me a free glass of wine when I got back to the hotel one night.

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        Europe is a pretty big continent…the breakfast you get in the Netherlands is going to be different to the one you get in France or the UK.

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          Italy vs. Germany. The only occasion where Germany wins against Italy when it comes to food. But Turkey is where the real breakfast kings reside.

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            Hold up- did you just say German food is better than Italian? I have never once in my life seen a German restaurant. Italian restaurants are all over the place

            Edit: apologies. I misread and that you said “is when it comes to food”. Sounds like I need to try me some German breakfast.

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              Sounds like I need to try me some German breakfast.

              German breakfast is good, but it isn’t the greates breakfast on earth. But Italian breakfast is terrible. It is basically coffee and some sweet pastry.

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                IDK I might be biased but what you described sounds like heaven.

                Meanwhile Germans fry sausages at every occasion, call that cuisine, and yet aren’t event the best in Europe at doing that.

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          Yes, but many big hotel chains have a buffet style breakfast that does not only include typical local food. For instance in France a local breakfast would be bread, croissant or other pastries, and a coffee, but you would also find scrambled eggs, bacon, cereal, etc.

          Smaller hotels will be more local though yes.

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            That’s a continental breakfast, and they’re popular in the US too, both east and west coast.

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          Okay I’ve had hotel breakfasts in literally those three and it was great. But you make a good point.

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        I don’t know what hotels you go to but my experience has been pretty mid across most of Europe. Bog-standard continental breakfast buffets. Croissants, orange juice, cereal, toast, all of mediocre quality.

        Not terrible as it is, but you can likely get infinitely better breakfast by hopping over to any cafe across the street.

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        Strongly disagree, I’ve stayed in a fair few hotels around the world. Best are usually US or Asia(not China)

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          Literally most places, and depends on what you like. I think anywhere in France is the tits for delicious food (try traveling outside of Paris as well).

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          I’ve been to Sweden a couple times, and the real food they serve in hotels or cafeterias versus the industrial processed eating product that we usually have in the US really puts us to shame.

          But that goes for many aspects of the culture. The whole, you know, respect other humans thing.

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        Can confirm, been to hotels all over Europe, even the fancy a la carte ones are fairly shitty if you dont need breakfast like a normie morning person.

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    It’s because they don’t want to give out free food (but want to make it seem like they do want to give out free food), so they will make it available only when people are less likely to go for it.

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      Free food? Since when is the hotel food free?

      Here you always have to pay for it even if you usually do it when booking

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        In the US several hotels will offer a “continental breakfast” included with the stay. I guess you could argue that it’s not really free, considering it’s factored into your stay at the hotel, but there is technically not a separate charge for it and it’s considered an “amenity”. I know that this is not necessarily common in other places, so I thought I would mention in case you were not aware.

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          I’d say you’re correct except now it’s more “used to offer”. In Europe it’s usually included and it’s a good spread, in the US it was a decent spread, then cereal and processed muffins, and now it’s… A Starbucks Togo you have to pay for

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    I don’t know where everyone is staying but I normally get a choice of single serve cereal bowls, bagels with maybe 3 types of spread, some type of juice, coffee, milk, and occasionally a selection of fruit. Everything is served with cheap plastic or cardboard not silverware, glass, cloth or ceramic.

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      Pretty much every hotel without “inn” in the name has at least reconstituted egg foam, bacon, and sausage.

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      I went to a 3-star hotel that was also doing this. Their free breakfast also includes eggs that came from a carton.

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      That would be a continental breakfast. What’s shown in the picture is closer to an English breakfast

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        The US doesn’t have anything called an English breakfast outside of restaurants which specifically cater to that. Aside from what looks like quiche, that looks like a pretty standard continental breakfast.

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      4-5 star hotels in Europe tend to serve quality food in a decent tableware.

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      I travel a lot for work, and this is my experience in and around Germany (even for small, family owned, 10 bedroom hotels):

      • 3 kinds of bread rolls
      • 2 types of bread to cut by yourself
      • Also soft, crustless, white bread (aka toast)
      • Butter and 3 kinds of cream cheese
      • 4-10 types of cheese
      • 4-8 types of cold cut meats
      • 3 jams/jellies
      • Honey
      • Nutella
      • Liver pâté
      • Scrambled or boiled egg
      • 1 type fried sausage
      • 1-3 types of Müsli (cereal mix with oats and nuts or fruits)
      • 2-3 types of box cereal (the sweet kind like fruit loops)
      • Yoghurt plain and fruit-flavoured
      • Quark dessert
      • Canned fruit mix
      • Fresh fruit
      • Croissants or muffins or Madeleines
      • optional waffles or pancakes

      For drinks:

      • Orange juice
      • Multivitamin juice
      • Coffee
      • Hot water bar with 3-12 types of tea
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    It’s so weird seeing almost 500 upvotes on a post like this on lemmy where, based on comments, like 90% of it’s users can barely afford rent, let alone going on vacation and staying at a place that offers breakfast.

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      I would expect most lemmings, like myself, to have spent more time in company-paid hotel rooms than vacation hotel rooms

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        Can confirm.

        Source: I think last time I paid for a hotel myself was 2009. I have no idea how many nights I’ve spent on company expense since then, but it must be in the hundreds.

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        Bold assumption but it checks out for me. It is based on lemmy being so tech heavy?

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          Young-leaning and tech heavy. In my case I’m trades rather than tech, but the result is the same: company has work they need done out of town, so I end up in a hotel

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      There are also people outside of america. In my country i could afford to go on a week-long vacation every year in europe with basically a minimum-wage salary if that is what i want to prioritize in life.

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      I mean, I travel for work a lot and have to stay weeks in hotels. And weeks means weekends, so yeah I can relate. There’s a lot of people I meet around the world that travel like me and wouldn’t be able to afford those same hotels for a vacation… like me lol

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      Could it be possible that these are different groups of people? Lemmy has like 70,000 monthly users now.

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      Oh it’s just the usual people that complain that they can’t afford anything but somehow they’ve visited 35 countries so far in their life and are planning their next trip to add one more to the list.

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      Well I mean, the majority of hotels don’t even serve free breakfast anymore once they realized they could get away with not having it or making it a paid thing. This used to be common a while ago, when I’m sure Lemmy users used to be taken on vacations by their parents.

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      Pretty sure there are more than 10% of Europeans on this site.

      Not everything is as dystopian as the US.

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      Breakfast to end a heavy night is awesome though. Just like the classic fast food on the way home. Hotel breakfast is even a classic for that too.

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    All the hotels i ever stay in anymore don’t have a restaurant or a bar just bare bones. I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express once and it had a pancake machine

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      Holiday Inn Express is the most miserable breakfast I’ve ever had in a hotel. The selection was basically lard with sugar on it, and whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine.

      I’m normally not much of a breakfast person, but work had booked me in at HIE once, and as I had a long day ahead I had to force myself to eat something. And the selection available didn’t exactly make it easier.

      After that I always make sure to book the hotel myself. I’m not that picky in terms of hotel, as long as the eatery is decent.

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          I never had tap water in the US that didn’t. No wonder why bottled water is so popular there. I’m sure they have better water in more mountainous states, but TX, LA, MS and AL tastes like chlorinated swamp.

          Most of my life I’ve lived in places where the tap water comes from natural lakes in nearby mountains, with bird poop as the only additive. I therefore notice the chlorine very easily, to the point where my coworkers claim they don’t notice it at all.

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            In New Zealand our tap water is mostly okay to good, with the exception of Whanganui. Tap water there has lots of lime (not the fruit) in it so I tend not to drink tap water as a habit, despite living in the south island now which has nice and cold tap water pretty much everywhere. Never heard of chlorine in the tap water around here lol

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                It does, not really sure how to describe it other than unpleasant, maybe metallic like. It also leaves residue in boiling jugs that needs to be cleaned periodically.

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        Yeah, uh… Don’t know how to say this, but if your water smells like chlorine, I don’t recommend drinking it. Might be ok for survival, but it’s definitely not for regular consumption.

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      I like Drury Inns. They do have the standard “breakfast ends at 9:30” thing which sucks for late sleepers, but they also have a 5-7 pm “happy hour” with snacks and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided gratis. It’s a way to avoid paying for dinner if you can do it and you don’t care about your dinner being snacky stuff, but if you’re on vacation, let dinner be snacky stuff.