Crashing the local hotel breakfast buffet

[SingleFather]

http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/p...pton-inn-breakfast-buffet/573578/1?csp=Travel

The thought has never crossed my mind. Good for the hotels charging the freeloaders!

 

[happygirl]

http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/p...pton-inn-breakfast-buffet/573578/1?csp=Travel

The thought has never crossed my mind. Good for the hotels charging the freeloaders!

I would have never guessed people do this

 

[FireDancer]

I would have never guessed people do this

Obviously you've never been to the budget board. If one is willing to make a hotdog or Ramen noodles in a coffee pot or use an iron to make grilled cheese I'm not surprised they are willing to crash a buffet.

It is pretty sad when someone tries to take advantage of perks that aren't for them but it happens all the time.

 

[Glynis]

One of the hotels in So Cal that we stay at was having this problem. They solved it by handing out tickets to everyone in our party for the length of our stay. 1 ticket per person per meal (they did breakfast and dinner buffets). We had to present them to a worker before they would let us in to eat. It seemed to help with the problem.

 

[MrsDuck]

Wow... I can't say I'm surprised but still.. wow.

 

[SingleFather]

Wow... I can't say I'm surprised but still.. wow.

Well they made a movie about crashing weddings.

 

[Jennasis]

I had family members who discovered the the hotel next to the hospital where their dad was staying offered complimentary coffee to it's guest (we were guests while visiting the hospitalized relative). They would show up at our hotel each morning and help themselves to the coffee/pastry bar at our hotel and then were all excited about how they had found a place to get free coffee from now on and wouldn't have to go to starbucks or the commissary at the hospital (even after we checked out).

 

[krnlmustrd]

Obviously you've never been to the budget board. If one is willing to make a hotdog or Ramen noodles in a coffee pot or use an iron to make grilled cheese I'm not surprised they are willing to crash a buffet.

It is pretty sad when someone tries to take advantage of perks that aren't for them but it happens all the time.

I don't think it's appropriate to equate being frugal with stealing.
I've often made ramen noodles with the coffee pot, but would never have considered crashing another hotel's buffet. (Though, I do admit that I've wondered how they would stop such a thing.)

 

[Mrs.Malone]

Obviously you've never been to the budget board. If one is willing to make a hotdog or Ramen noodles in a coffee pot or use an iron to make grilled cheese I'm not surprised they are willing to crash a buffet.

It is pretty sad when someone tries to take advantage of perks that aren't for them but it happens all the time.

I know you're making a joke, but it's a thinly veiled accusation that the Budget Board is full of thieves, and I don't think that's fair. I've been reading there for a long time and the rare newbie who suggests things like you said above gets shot down quickly there, with great fanfare and snark. And as disgusting and ridiculous as it would be to cook grilled cheese with an iron, that's not stealing so I don't think you can equate the two.

 

[kathie859]

I know you're making a joke, but it's a thinly veiled accusation that the Budget Board is full of thieves, and I don't think that's fair. I've been reading there for a long time and the rare newbie who suggests things like you said above gets shot down quickly there, with great fanfare and snark. And as disgusting and ridiculous as it would be to cook grilled cheese with an iron, that's not stealing so I don't think you can equate the two.

I'm not sure that it's a joke! I'm still recovering from the pp who used the coffee pot for ramen noodles No wonder the coffee in my room tastes like sludge.

 

[Mrs.Malone]

The article kept mentioning the economy but I doubt all these breakfast crashers are people who otherwise would go hungry. I'll bet a lot of them are trying to get something for nothing, just because they can. That seems to be a popular thrill these days.

We often stay at Hampton, Country Inn, and the like. The atmosphere at the breakfast buffets is generally just more greedy and rude than it used to be. During our last couple of hotel stays I've seen hotel guests doing things like stuffing food--not just an apple for the road but several boxes of cereal, multiple pastries, and such-- into their pockets and purses. Once the bacon and sausage were gone so two women and my little girl and I waited nearby until the host came with more. As soon as the new tray arrived one of the women grabbed the whole thing and dumped every single piece meat onto her plate and her friend's plate. One of the women's plates broke in half because it was so full. We've seen this type of thing so many times lately. I even saw it at Costco the other day. The sample tables were swarmed with people jostling and elbowing to grab a Wheat Thin with cream cheese or a smidgeon of pumpkin pie.

 

[Mrs.Malone]

I'm not sure that it's a joke! I'm still recovering from the pp who used the coffee pot for ramen noodles No wonder the coffee in my room tastes like sludge.

I'm not that PP but my guess is that that person just uses the hot water from the coffeepot which is fine. I know there are people who do stuff like making huge salads from the toppings bars and boiling hotdogs in the actual coffee carafe, but I think that's more DIS folklore than actual truth. We joke about those things but as I said before if anyone actually posts that they go that far they are always shot down on the Budget Board, not applauded for their resourcefulness, as some CB posters like to imply.

 

[punkin]

I know you're making a joke, but it's a thinly veiled accusation that the Budget Board is full of thieves, and I don't think that's fair. I've been reading there for a long time and the rare newbie who suggests things like you said above gets shot down quickly there, with great fanfare and snark. And as disgusting and ridiculous as it would be to cook grilled cheese with an iron, that's not stealing so I don't think you can equate the two.

You know this is the second snarky Budget Board comment I read here today. I don't get it. I've always found the Budget Board extremely helpful and friendly...and the few times there are threads about iron grilled cheese, it is usually a troll.

 

[FireDancer]

I'm not that PP but my guess is that that person just uses the hot water from the coffeepot which is fine. I know there are people who do stuff like making huge salads from the toppings bars and boiling hotdogs in the actual coffee carafe, but I think that's more DIS folklore than actual truth. We joke about those things but as I said before if anyone actually posts that they go that far they are always shot down on the Budget Board, not applauded for their resourcefulness, as some CB posters like to imply.

No people actually put hot dogs in the pot with water or ramen noodles and cook it. It is absolutely disgusting.

I realize being frugal and stealing is different but you hear of people bringing their own buns into restaurants at Disney and taking toppings from the salad bar without buying anything. That is just as much stealing as what is described in the OP. I also think having a fridge swap at a resort that offers a fridge to rent is pretty much stealing or at least getting around a charge in what I personally consider an improper way. If I were to become the VP of Disney World it would be the first thing I stopped.

 

[Scurvy]

I'm not sure that it's a joke! I'm still recovering from the pp who used the coffee pot for ramen noodles No wonder the coffee in my room tastes like sludge.

Before I heard some of the terrible things people do with hotel coffee pots I used to use them to make tea or hot chocolate - I'd just run the water through to get hot and then pour it into a mug with whatever I wanted to drink. I imagine the previous poster does the same thing, only with noodles instead of a tea bag. That wouldn't change the flavor of your coffee at all.

It's the people who use the coffee pot to heat hot dogs or to wash underwear (both of which I've seen people claim to do) who are to blame for the taste of your coffee. Either that, or the hotel just stocks bad coffee.

 

[hereyago]

You know this is the second snarky Budget Board comment I read here today. I don't get it. I've always found the Budget Board extremely helpful and friendly...and the few times there are threads about iron grilled cheese, it is usually a troll.

ITA! I even post on the budget board and there isn't a lot of hot dog cooking 101 or how to iron a grilled cheese sandwich threads,lol.



A couple things mentioned that were in Firedancer's post, years ago I knew college students who did similar to these things because you can't bring a stove or oven into your dorm room,lol.

 

[hereyago]

to wash underwear (both of which i've seen people claim to do) who are to blame for the taste of your coffee..

eeww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[shalom]

No wonder the coffee in my room tastes like sludge.

Imagine what the ramen noodles must taste like! (First thought as a coffee hater. )

Making a grilled cheese sandwich on an iron may not be theft, but it sure could damage something the next time it was used as an iron. But I've never seen anyone at the budget board who seriously does that, either.

 

[jeepgirl30]

My mom would totally do this, i'd be surprised to find out she hasn't. She takes her travel mug into the turnpike rest areas where they have fast foods places and just goes up to the coffee station and fills it up. She did this once with me and my children. She also ordered one burger for her and dad to share and then proceeded to add toppings to the burger and made two "side salads" for them.

I was mortified and offered to pay for their coffee (before i saw the salad trick). My kids were so embarrassed.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

It's the people who use the coffee pot to heat hot dogs or to wash underwear (both of which I've seen people claim to do) who are to blame for the taste of your coffee. Either that, or the hotel just stocks bad coffee.

If ever there was a need for these two smilies it is for this.

I will never drink coffee out of the hotel room coffee pot again.