It's specifically timed: you get up and get dressed for the free breakfast, get back to your room and you're like, "Well, I'm already up and dressed and everything, I might as well hit the road!" And you leave, conveniently leaving the room available for Housekeeping to clean for those early arrivals.
Amusement parks will do something similar: time a fireworks display in a central-ish area near the end of the night. Everyone comes to the fireworks, they end and everyone looks at tl the time and is like, "Well, there's just enough time for one more ride / snack / set of games", and then we'll have to leave," ignoring the way you've been collected to a central(ish) location and primed to leave, making the job for closing security much easier.
I stg it used to be (probably around pre 2020) that even the shitty hole in the wall motels had like pretty comfy solid breakfast - bagged eggs (my guilty pleasure) and cool steampunk communal toasters and shit. now it's like mini cereal boxes and maybe bagged muffins.
getting old is hell. everything gets worse and most people just try to ignore it
Me:I'm so hungry, its great that I don't have to cook
Breakfast: We have pre-made heat lamp eggs, Bacon and sausage are only served til 7am, the toaster doesn't work at the moment, all the fruit was eaten but you can have all the cereal and shitty hotel muffins you want!
"The best stuff" at a Continental breakfast anymore is prepackaged, unfortunately. The eggs are gross, the baked goods are stale, and it's always disappointing. I barely even try it anymore and bring my own stuff rather than suffering through that crap.
Most hotels I've been put up in for work don't even have a free breakfast. If your lucky you'll get some coffee and maybe a free cookie from the lobby if they have them out.
Pretty much every holiday inn I stay at for work has had a decent breakfast. They run 6:30 to 9 and keeps things well stocked at least until 8 (I'm never there later)
They've all had the same "menu", plus or minus a few things. They tend to rotate the hot items every otherday.
An omelet thing, cheese or veggie
Scrambled eggs
Home Frys
Gravey and bisket
Sausage and/or bacon
A 1-minute pancake machine that usually works...kind of
Ceareal
fruit
A juice machine
Coffe
Hot water
Hot cocoa packs
Tea pouches
Milk cartons (these are usually terrible, a lot are weird "organic" brands or "skimed to be 90% water")
A belgian waffle machine that is caked in burnt dough
The bacon is flimsy and under cooked
Plain bagels stiff from being left out too long and a load of white break next to a toaster you have to cycle 3 times
The kids leave a plate full of waffles floating in a pool of syrup, 4 bites taken
Half the 4 seater tables are taken up by 1 person, with plenty of 2-seaters wide open
Regular and decaf coffee that tastes burnt, and only powdered creamer, offers tea but it's so picked over it's 2-3 types of fruity chai or chamomile, green tea.
This is a myth. Unless you are dead tired and utterly exhausted, you'll never sleep all that well in a hotel room because in the back of your little mammalian brain you'll always "know" that it's not "home," and you won't ever feel entirely comfortable until you've slept there for a few nights.
So it's not really like the "escape" herein described.
Unless you travel all the time, in which case again, it's not really an "escape" and is just more of the same.
The best one is airport hotels you can get an full-on breakfast at 4:00am in the morning it's fantastic. Especially useful if their 4:00 a.m. is your 3:00 p.m. and you can have an afternoon snack.
I've only had this happen once, and it was at the cheapest, grungiest motel I've ever been in. I don't think I would have wanted their breakfast anyway.
Also the definition of breakfast is best applied to pets and small animals because the amount and quality of food given is not meant for a full grown human adult.
I'm sorry but this is some Boomer ass shit. Why would to eat food made in a hotel? Its really basic and made poorly because they are offering it for free. I'd rather get something cheap from a fast food place being real. No time limit, you get whatever you want, and its cheap.