There are pros and cons to each major hotel loyalty program, especially when it comes to elite perks. Personally, World of Hyatt Globalist status is my favorite hotel loyalty status that I have, and that goes beyond Hyatt having the best suite upgrade policy for Globalist members.
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Hotel breakfast requires budgeting time to go back for a poop in the room afterwards...
Its funny how i can stay at a PH with my family and order basically anything we want and get $300 taken off. Then i stay at a Hyatt Regency by myself and order the same thing everyday for breakfast and somehow get charged like $1 on day 1, $0 on day 2, $2 on day three.
While Marriott technically only guarantees a continental breakfast we have always gotten something significantly better than that.
My biggest digs against Marriott breakfast wise is the exclusive of some high end properties like RC and Edition and the chintzy $10 at Courtyards. These exclusions actively discourage us from staying at those properties.
In reality, the number of IHG and Marriott properties that offer free breakfast are vastly higher than Hyatt because it has such a small footprint.
That receipt for the maui hotel must be a Joke : over $200 . for breakfast ? Ha-Ha .
It has already begun. Recent stays at Alila Napa and Hyatt Regency Monterey, CA, Both had $40 credit / person not an all-inclusive breakfast. In both total check easily exceeds $40 for a coffee, plus mains.
Hyatt Centric Downtown Minneapolis breakfast was so surprisingly inexpensive (for a downtown hotel) that my wife and I also treated a friend staying there as well to breakfast for 3 days on our room tab and I only got an overage charge for $2 on checkout. Thumbs up to Globalist breakfast perk.
So, at a hotel breakfast where they ask you to sign the bill, what’s the right thing to write in the “TIP” section? Leave it blank?
One small supplement to this post: The Laurel Inn in San Francisco technically doesn't provide breakfast, but they have been providing Globalists with a daily voucher (for two people) to Wise Sons, which is a bagel shop across the street. The voucher is good for one breakfast bagel sandwich, one coffee/tea and one juice. We've stayed at the Laurel Inn as Globalists multiple times over the past few years and have always received this breakfast benefit. I very much appreciate that they provide the benefit even if it's not required, and the breakfast at Wise Sons is at least as good as the breakfast provided at many mid-tier Hyatts.
Breakfast buffet in Asia (i.e Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong...) are so goooood... night and day compare to US based Hyatt
If you ever see me paying $60/person for breakfast (like on the receipt shown), it is safe to say I'm going through my own "Brewster's Millions." I just love reading breakfast travel posts. It's like I'm an extraterrestrial visitor studying Earth. I'm rarely at hotels than offer breakfast paid or not. I decline the €17 continental breakfasts in France, when I can get a €1 pastry at the grocery store (as close as I come to having breakfast). And, I have maybe 16 weeks at a hotel over the last 4 years that offers a decent looking breakfast buffet gratis, with me having zero breakfasts there. I'm not substituting my preferences for others. I'm just amazed at how important free breakfast is to some here.
What rdover1 said. Find a good travel advisor and book with STARS, Prive, Virtuoso or FHR and related programs. Loyalty will always be a point of contention between operators and programs, and I'd rather not pay the price for that.