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It might not be a big luxury, but there’s something so satisfying about waking up in a hotel room, rolling out of bed, and going downstairs for that complimentary breakfast. The free breakfast buffets usually aren’t offering the most gourmet eats, but it’s having that little no-cost treat to look forward to in the mornings that makes it special. Just, uh, make sure that your breakfast buffet is actually free.
Seriously, the emotional whiplash of finding out that your “complimentary” hotel breakfast wasn’t actually complimentary is brutally severe. Shannon Brooke and her friends found that out the hard way during a trip to NYC, when they got stuck with a breakast bill big enough to stun them into silence:
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And let’s be fair to these ladies here- it’s not like they wandered into an obvious five-star restaurant looking for freebies. According to Shannon, it looked like your standard, gratis continental breakfast buffet . “It WAS buffet style and we didn’t have a waiter, that’s why we were so confused HAHA,” she defended herself in the comments.