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Hotel breakfast costs revealed
A survey of 55,000 hotels by data company OTA Insight shows that hotel breakfasts in Europe (three, four and five stars) are heavily priced this year.
In the top ten, dominated by Swiss destinations, guests can easily pay more than £16 for a hotel breakfast this summer.
London (£15.06) is the most expensive city in the UK for hotel breakfasts.
Interestingly, the most popular destinations are not always the most expensive for breakfast.
“Hotels are trying more than in the past to optimize their revenues with extras such as parking, breakfast and wellness,” says Maxime De Wintere, expert in pricing for hotels at OTA Insight.
With no fewer than four cities in the top ten most expensive hotel breakfasts, Switzerland clearly takes the prize for hotel breakfast pricing (Zurich, Basel, Geneva and Zermatt) at £16.10 on average.
Top destinations such as Crete (£6.40), Marbella (£7.67), Algarve (£9.38) and Ibiza (£12.79) do not necessarily charge the highest prices for breakfast
In Benidorm (£2.98) guests pay on average the least for a hotel breakfast.
“Prices of hotel breakfasts are determined by the standard of living of the country where the hotel is located – and of course also on the level of local competition,” said Maxime De Wintere.
Prices of hotel breakfasts were looked at across all stars (three, four and five star hotels).
The overall average is around £11.20 per in the list of just under one hundred top European destinations.
OTA Insight says breakfasts so expensive simply: because tourists are willing to pay for them.
“Inflation probably plays a part, but it doesn’t explain everything. In the past, hotels compensated for lower room prices with expensive cancellation premiums, but since Covid this has become very difficult. So hotels have to increase their profitability in other ways.”
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