Tea And Coffee Making Facilities In Other Countries

[Le Chat]

I am rather keen on reading the various Trip Advisor reviews and have noticed that so many reviewers state that the hotel in question wasn't 4/5* as there "weren't even any coffee/tea making facilities."
Now, it is not one of my priorities when visiting a hotel of whatever star, as I would never make a hot drink in the room but is this not a British fascination?
Casting my mind back over various continental hotels that I have frequented, I have never encountered kettle and sachets.
Why is it so important to so many people? Perhaps it is to you, so enlighten me please, as I think I may be missing something here!

[237SJ]

I can`t wake up without my tea but whether there are tea making facilities or not is not an issue to me because I don`t go anywhere without my travel kettle. I wouldn`t mark a hotel down on there being no facilities though but then again, some people mark down because there is no mini-bar. Different people have different requirements, I suppose.

[Maydup]

If the hotel is good and has a relaxing bar or lobby where you can buy a hot drink its not a problem, but to be stuck in a small hotel room with no facilities for making a drink is grim.

I like to make a drink if I go back to the hotel before going out again for dinner, and also like a drink in the evening around 10pm. It's not a lot to ask and should come as standard.

[tenrec]

I like walking holidays so enjoy a cuppa in my room when I get back from a hard day.

[zebo]

I wish my little travel kettle could earn airmiles, we'd be off round the world a few times by now! It's a source of great envy when we are on tours and have fed people tea/coffee and a ginger biscuit in some fairly far flung places.

[jamesnan]

Cost is a factor some of the time, why pay out for a cup of tea or coffee when you can make one in your room, as and when you want it, instead of paying about £2 per cup each time. Use that money instead on other things. I find it annoying to have to leave either the room or hotel, just to get a hot drink.

[Hopkirk]

Tea and coffee facilities in the room are essential to me - I want it now with the teabag put into boiling water.

[albaqwerty]

worked in a guesthouse many moons ago, tea and coffee etc available to guests of all nationalities, so not such a British thing.
If a guest fancies a cuppa at 3.30 in the morning, it's available to them.

[boxtops]

I'm disappointed if there aren't any, who wants to have to get up and dressed before you can have a first-thing drink?

[Answerprancer]

Sorry to stray from your question but it instantly reminded me of this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHEmKmoNYhs

[EcclesCake]

I very, very rarely bother with T&C in hotel rooms, largely because there is rarely any fresh milk, the coffee is usually instant and only builders tea is provided.

If there is not T&C making facilities I'm not at all bothered.

[Eve]

It's important to me. I love to to able to have a nice coffee first thing once I wake up and am getting ready. Similar when I get back though more likely milky tea in the evening.

I wouldn't want to have to get up and out to get one and like to have one whenever I want, just wish they'd have larger mugs than the tiny cups they usually do which is just a few gulps for me :)

There was a proper little coffee machine (like a Tassimo type) in a hotel I stayed in in Amsterdam and that was great :)

If there weren't any I'd take a travel kettle etc... often take extra teabags and coffee as it is, but nice to have to.

[spudqueen]

albaqwerty - I think that you've got the wrong end of the stick. I'm sure that hotels and guest houses in this country don't check which country the guest is from before deciding whether to stick a kettle in their room. Rather, that it is British people travelling abroad that complain when there isn't a kettle in their room.
I agree with Le Chat, and I have also noticed that Americans go on about how small rooms are, usually saying, but this is usual in Europe. Funny isn't it because none of the hotels I've stayed in in the States were particularly big!

[MASS1961]

Not too bothered if I'm away for a week on holiday but if on business overnight then definitely want facilities in the room.

[zebo]

In the USA, there's usually a coffe-maker in the room, but I can't work out why the water's never boiling hot, the physics says it should be, but when I use it to heat water for tea, it's never hot enough.

[Le Chat]

Wow!! I am totally enlightened now. So we do love our cuppa first thing, so very much. I do agree with Eccles though about the milk (could be UHT) and sachets of builder's tea!
I don't think people should expect this service in other countries though and that is my point...it is a British thing!
Thanks for your replies.