More and more chain motels offer breakfast included in the rate, but in some cases that seems to mean a dried out corn muffin and a pot of old coffee on a sideboard in the lobby.

Which chains have impressed you with good, substantial breakfasts included in the room rate, and which claim to have breakfast but offer something pretty pitiful?

Hampton Inns.

Candlewood Suites (and their affiliate, Cambridge Suites which is run by the same company), hav a vey good breakfast that includes cooked to order omelettes or pancakes. Hampton's is pretty good. Amerisuites is a bit better than Hampton in my opinion and Embassy Suites is somewhere in between Candlewood and the others. What bugs me is the truly mediocre quality of the coffee at all of these places. I'd gladly pay for the coffee separately if I could get good coffee with my "free" breakfast.

Embassy Suites. Huge choices, all fresh and include on site chefs to make breakfast to order.
One downside is the people you must eat with are pretty pushy and take more food than they can reasonable eat for breakfast. Leftovers are slipped into bags for a snack or lunch.

Some of them, like Hampton, are standardized, but I've found that for some other chains, the quality of the included breakfast can vary from one site to another.

A good example is Ramada. Depending on which one I've stayed in, I've had some of the best and worst breakfasts imaginable.

You can always tell the people who in elementary school were crossing guards: "One downside is the people you must eat with are pretty pushy and take more food than they can reasonable eat for breakfast. Leftovers are slipped into bags for a snack or lunch."

Awright, you with the sticky bun in your purse! I'm marching you straight down to the principal's office!

Gettalife.

Doozie, part of the problem with reading posts is that the poster will never be able to convey the tone in which the post was written. This means that the reader must be in a positive frame of mind, or at least have an open mind, when reading. If you've ever eaten at an Embassy Suites for breakfast you would be chuckling along with me as you recall your experience. I'm sorry you are having such a difficult time.

I have always found Hampton Inn to be the best value and the most consistant.

Suzie: Talk about failing to convey the tone. What in the blue blazes are you talking about?
Oh, and thank you for your empathy over my "difficult time" (whatever that's supposed to mean).

I, too, am mystified by Suzie's observations. Is she saying that everyone who eats breakfast at an Embassy Suites is a slob? How does that happen? Do they give slob discounts at ES? And if so, is that how Suzie got in?

C'mon, Suzie. Your post was dense.

Holiday Inn Express has a great breakfast. A little different in each location but 99% of the time a good experience