One of the great features of staying in a hotel or B&B.
What's the best you've experienced?

The Grand, Lytham St Anne’s was excellent.

No Ney Never wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:26 pm

One of the great features of staying in a hotel or B&B.
What's the best you've experienced?

The Hotel in Perth where we stayed after the St Johnstone friendly under Coyle was bloody marvelous. 4 kinds of sausage!

Aside from that, Estival Torrequebrada and Riu Costa del Sol were both enjoyable breakfasts, not least for the views!

I wholeheartedly agree with this.
My favourite is the Traquair Arms, Innerleithen Scotland.
A fine specimen of a hotel breakfast.

The Sidmouth Arms Upottery Devon. This was over 40 years ago and it still ranks as the biggest breakfast I have ever been given. I think it was 4 sausage, 4 rashers of bacon, 4 eggs, mushrooms, baked beans, fried tomatoes and black pudding. And they gave you all that without asking what you wanted for breakfast!!

None of these will be better than the full English breakfast at Gary Wilmot's wedding

Llwyn Helyg Country House


Not only the best breakfast but one of the best stays ive had anywhere. Beautfiul home in South Wales (and hosts to boot)

A large glass of Spanish orange juice and a strong black coffee , then ready to take on the world .

GDK wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 2:57 pm

None of these will be better than the full English breakfast at Gary Wilmot's wedding

Lynne told me you'd say that

Full Irish whilst fishing in Ireland.

Black pudding, white pudding, kidneys, even something made out of seaweed.

Marvellous.

Westin Grand Berlin.

A whole smoked salmon that you could slice bits off, champagne, caviar, in addition to an excellent cooked selection.

Not quite a hotel but the "Agnes Blackadder" halls of residence at St Andrews takes some beating. Fruit, cereals & different types of milk, fruit juice, lots of breads and pastries, porridge and a buffet containing the "Fully Monty" including Haggis. During the summer months when the students are away you can book rooms and it's superb value and a great location for the golf.

Premier inn do decent breakfasts with a good range and drinkable coffee.

Sycamore farm, even let me in with a cap on

Can’t remember the name, but it was in bowness in the lakes during Covid. It was a full English delivered to our room because we still couldn’t fraternise. No silly portions, no gimmicks, just quality ingredients, cooked to perfection, fresh proper coffee and lovely OJ, two slices of toasted bloomer with lashings of lurpak. Drooling now thinking about it.

Spoons breakfasts are always enjoyable and great value

Toby Carvery do an excellent all you can eat breakfast. You pay at the bar, and get a knife n fork, ( plus a mug, if you order coffee ), then off you go n fill yer boots! The bacon is always well cooked, nice butchers sausage ( not them cereal filled ones ), choice of eggs, the lot. They even do breakfast Yorkshire Puddings, wi onion and bacon bits in, they are really good. Fried bread, and toast. Unlimited coffee. Very good value.

Just sampled three breakys at Le Meridien in Munich. Most satisfactory.

For me the mistake some people make is quantity over quality .
One spot in San Deigo ( rabbits i think ) had both , a very good choice of breakfast but just way too much , you had to get there at 7.30am each morning otherwise you had to wait in line for a table .
So I would call it the best spot I have been for breakfast .

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:11 pm

Sycamore farm, even let me in with a cap on

Their standards are clearly slipping.

Grand Harbour Hotel Kowloon. For the sheer breadth of choice, english, american, chinese, indian etc, and all top quality. Plus the best to order omelettes I've ever had.

Dunkenhalgh when I am over for home matches does a good spread.
To be honest, British breakfasts are so much better than continental bacon is one of the few things I miss about the UK always take some back with me.

There's not really a decent breakfast about Burnley anymore, JJ'S used to be about the best but that's gone gash too

It's all cheap and cheerful stuff.

I won't eat cheap sausage

A good butcher soss and decent bacon are the bedrock. Anything less and you're eating cheap shite. A full English is one of those meals where there are no hiding places.

Clovius Boofus wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 11:48 am

A good butcher soss and decent bacon are the bedrock. Anything less and you're eating cheap shite. A full English is one of those meals where there are no hiding places.

Absolutely. Catering sausage is absolute dross, one step up from a Richmond

Kierby

A B&B we stayed at in Ottawa. Owned and cooked by a young German lady. Good spread of cereals, fruits, cooked meats, cheeses and various rolls around the walls and then on order pancakes or a fry. Wonderful.

northeastclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:44 pm

Spoons breakfasts are always enjoyable and great value

Agreed. Needs to be accompanied with a hangover though.

gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 5:22 pm

Kierby

Served en suite by the night porter?

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 11:17 am

There's not really a decent breakfast about Burnley anymore, JJ'S used to be about the best but that's gone gash too

It's all cheap and cheerful stuff.

I won't eat cheap sausage

The sausage at JJ’s are shocking. Inedible cardboard.

The miners cafe is quite good and decent value.

There’s a cafe open at the weekends at Kelbrook clay ground. Great breakfast, and the sausages are awesome.

northeastclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:44 pm

Spoons breakfasts are always enjoyable and great value

Everything about this statement is just plain wrong. Poor ingredients, “cooked” badly by people who couldn't care less, delivered to your table by people who wished they were elsewhere. I’d sooner pay more, in the hope I’d get better ingredients and those working got paid better.
In a choice of spoons or go hungry, I’m bin dipping.

bobinho wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:18 pm

Everything about this statement is just plain wrong. Poor ingredients, “cooked” badly by people who couldn't care less, delivered to your table by people who wished they were elsewhere. I’d sooner pay more, in the hope I’d get better ingredients and those working got paid better.
In a choice of spoons or go hungry, I’m bin dipping.

The next time I wake up half dead after a night out and go for a breakfast, I'll think to ask for the ingredients.

ollieclarets8 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:24 pm

The next time I wake up half dead after a night out and go for a breakfast, I'll think to ask for the ingredients.

Well I’d imagine ingredients aren’t important to anyone who spent the previous night pumping poison into himself.

Done it myself, many times, (still do it now albeit not as often) and a decent full English helps to make me feel human again… but it’s got to taste good and I’ve got to enjoy it. That’s where the ingredients come in.

Still wouldn't eat rusk filled shite even if I was roughest man on earth

Probably a breakfast in Cape Cod. Stayed with a couple and she served 3 courses….first tall glass of yogurt, muesli and home-grown fruits. Then a delicious fried breakfast followed by homemade cake.

It left you so full that you didn’t need to buy lunch.

Novotel in saarbrucken. Yes, they are all roughly the same, but that one was just perfect, and I probably gained half a stone before leaving.

Predictably a lot of lightweight responses here.

The landlady of a North Devon b&b came through for me big time when I was walking the SouthWest coastpath back around '99/2000ish.

Any bigger and she'd have needed a wheelbarrow to fetch it into her dining room. You name it, it was on there...from kidneys through to a stack of proper Bury black puddings, via a string of sausages and bacon fresh from the adjoining farm.
Even the tea mug must have held a couple of pints.

I could barely manage to continue the hike by the time I'd finished it, and I politely declined her offer of a packed lunch for later.

Hotel Mediterranee, Menton, Côte d’Azur.

timshorts wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 8:51 pm

Novotel in saarbrucken. Yes, they are all roughly the same, but that one was just perfect, and I probably gained half a stone before leaving.

The 16 pints and curry has to be at least 5% to blame.

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 11:17 am

There's not really a decent breakfast about Burnley anymore, JJ'S used to be about the best but that's gone gash too

It's all cheap and cheerful stuff.

I won't eat cheap sausage

Bistro 197 and HAPPA are both very good. And good value for money.

Jjs at dunkenhalgh is decent but not as good as those.

bobinho wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:13 pm

The sausage at JJ’s are shocking. Inedible cardboard.

The miners cafe is quite good and decent value.

There’s a cafe open at the weekends at Kelbrook clay ground. Great breakfast, and the sausages are awesome.

Jjs must have changed. As last post. I always find it decent but not a patch on the bistro197.

But last time I went ( after that win at ewood) it was fine

CyrilEbokiPoh wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 20, 2025 10:12 am

Bistro 197 and HAPPA are both very good. And good value for money.

Jjs at dunkenhalgh is decent but not as good as those.

Ah forgot happa, that's a good one. Not done bistro 197, always been full when tried to go

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 20, 2025 10:23 am

Ah forgot happa, that's a good one. Not done bistro 197, always been full when tried to go

Both excellent. Proper ingredients. And excellent service and quality. And the price is very good at both.

Granted neither are a hotel.

bobinho wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:18 pm

Everything about this statement is just plain wrong. Poor ingredients, “cooked” badly by people who couldn't care less, delivered to your table by people who wished they were elsewhere. I’d sooner pay more, in the hope I’d get better ingredients and those working got paid better.
In a choice of spoons or go hungry, I’m bin dipping.

I quite like spoons, normally full of normal people, not snobs.

Point de Vue Hotel in Rabat Malta

Row x wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 20, 2025 11:23 am

I quite like spoons, normally full of normal people, not snobs.

What are normal people?

GetIntoEm wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 20, 2025 11:44 am

What are normal people?

Drugs dealers ?

Tribesmen wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 20, 2025 11:58 am

Drugs dealers ?

Never seen drugs being dealt in a spoons

I have though in some so called up market establishments

We stopped in a bed and breakfast when Burnley played Cork. Eileen really looked after us you could have seconds of everything including black and white pudding

Spike wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 20, 2025 1:36 pm

We stopped in a bed and breakfast when Burnley played Cork. Eileen really looked after us you could have seconds of everything including black and white pudding

Best breakfasts I've had were in the ROI.

Quality produce.