Our room rate includes the daily buffet breakfasts that are available till 12 noon. That is a favorable schedule for late sleepers and late risers like me.
Being an early sleeper and early riser, husband would drink coffee first in the room while waiting for me to get ready for breakfast. I try my best to catch up so we could have breakfast together.
The breakfast area is on the second floor overlooking the apartments across the hotel.
Room Mate Mario a boutique hotel so we lowered our expectations when it comes to the variety and amount of food choices.
The variety is less but enough to fuel my energy for a few hours.
Drinking orange juice or citrus in the morning or when I have a hungry stomach is tricky for me. There are days I get hit by severe migraine attack after drinking orange juice in the morning most especially when it’s pasteurized and not freshly squeezed. I had a very bad experience 20+ uears ago one time I was in Cologne, Germany. The small hotel provided us with basic breakfast of breads, butter and jams, eggs, ham and cheese, salami, and pasteurized orange juice. Thirty minutes after breakfast I had one of the most intense migraine attacks. I threw up several times and my body was shaking from the pain. Every time I took some tablet, I threw it up. Bonamine was the only one that calmed the throbbing in my head. I was down the whole morning till 3 pm. My friend, Bob Leung, head of the Singaporean Chamber of Furniture Industries group came to my hotel to check on me because I didn’t show up that morning at the convention center. He found me looking terrible lying on a tiny bed in this tiny hotel and crying. I was about to ask him to bring me to a hospital. Naawa yata sa akin because I looked really sick. As soon as he entered the small room, he told me to open the windows to let the fresh air in. What fresh air, it was snowing outside. He opened the window. I felt better when I felt the ice cold breeze. He said the room’s air was stale that’s why I felt sick.
