Hilton Hotel, NEC, Birmingham

Following our disappointing breakfast experience last weekend we were hoping that this breakfast was going to be an improvement, and i am pleased to say it was! The breakfast dining area was nice, clean and good staff. As norm with hotels, it was a buffet style breakfast and the choice was excellent. Fruit, cereal, meats and of course the cooked breakfast range. I decided to start healthy and had some grapefruit first before hitting the main course! Orange juice and coffee was brought to the table and was ok, not a particularly strong coffee, but again that is normal for hotels. The range for the cooked breakfast was good: eggs (fried and scrambled), sausages, tomatoes, beans, mushrooms, hash browns and bacon. The food was warm and apart from the fried eggs did not look as if they had been warmed for too long. The hash browns were the type that had a heavy onion taste which is not my favourite but still with a bonus point for having them on the menu. I have also added another bonus point to the system, a bonus point is now added if Marmite is available! So to the score, well i am going to give them a good 8 out of 10!

Thistle Hotel, Brighton

Oh dear. Well i guess it had to happen, yes, you have guessed, a really bad breakfast!

We stayed at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton and liked the hotel. It looks like a 70's lump of concrete and spoils the sea front view, but if you have a sea view room like we did, it was great, apart from the air conditioning has seen better days and struggled to cope!

The best thing i can say about the breakfast is that the view was very good, apart from that it went down hill.

The food was buffet style, like most hotels, but i would guess that it had been under the heated lights/heaters since about 5am. The beans were well baked, the hash browns, that would usually get a bonus point, were over cooked and far too crispy. The sausage was under cooked and the bacon that you would of thought would be too crispy was just greasy!

We were very jealous over everybody eating there nice cooked breakfasts on the sea front after our poor one!

Two out of ten!