On March 1 Starwood introduced several new benefits for Gold and Platinum members, including complimentary continental breakfast for Platinum members. The complimentary breakfast was added as an option in place of the other welcome amenities, meaning you have to forgo the 500 point welcome bonus in order to receive it. I was rather skeptical of…
Continue reading: My Platinum breakfast experience at Le Meridien Munich
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No breakfast would be complete without the pretzel. I love it!
Glad to see such a great spread as the "complimentary continental breakfast." It is very interesting to see the differences in this amenity between the properties, and I look forward to seeing if there is some sort of equalization of this benefit between the properties in the future.
Safe travels!
much better than the Westin Jersey City where platinum breakfast is set on a makeshift costco foldout table in the lobby
The breakfast looks good. However, at least at a German property, I would expect that they get their German right...
Ben, other than the breakfast ordeal, how was Le Meridian SF? I have a stay there in May.
@ Robert -- I wrote a full review of my stay here:
https://onemileatatime.com/review-le-meridien-san-francisco/
On the whole it's a decent hotel and if you get a good deal I wouldn't hesitate staying there. But it's far from being one of my favorite hotels.
that's better than the 2 slices of bread and a plate of fruit i got for my Westin Portland, OR breakfast option!
The card is pretty funny, they most have thrown a US version into google translate and not even bothered to read it.
This is something my wife and I were just talking about -- that a "continental" breakfast in the U.S. gets its name presumably because that's what's served on the European "continent" (as opposed to "English breakfast") -- but that a continental breakfast in the U.S. is usually nothing like what you get there. Several times now I've had great "continental" breakfasts in Europe with lots of fruits, cheese, meats, pastries, bread, cereal and more. The only thing missing seems to be eggs, which would make the breakfast "not continental". Sadly, I've never seen such a full spread qualify as a "continental" breakfast in the U.S.