My posts on recent speaking trips in Europe and South America included comments on hotel breakfasts (with pictures), so I decided to do a little online research on the subject. My conclusions, from that and my own experience: In the US, low and mid-priced hotels usually provide a free breakfast; I am told that ones priced above $200 often do not. The breakfast at the low end is pretty minimal but the better ones, such as the Hampton Inns that are one of our standard choices when traveling, struck me as more than adequate ' until I experienced the breakfast buffets of Europe and South America. The American ones usually include a waffle machine operated by the guest, a few kinds of dry cereal, oatmeal, bagel shaped rolls, a few varieties of obviously mass-produced pastries, bread, a toaster, apples, bananas, juice. Also scrambled eggs or machine made 'omelets,' hard boiled eggs, bacon or sausage, tea and coffee. The pastries in European and South American breakfast buffets were...
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