Hotel Breakfast Ideas for Traveling Families
Hotel breakfast ideas will save your family time, money and energy so you will have more in the fabulous destinations you are visiting. With just a bit of preparation, you can make easy and healthy breakfast right in your hotel room.
Hotel with Free Breakfast
My children absolutely love free continental breakfast at hotels. We usually book hotels that offer this amenity – like at the Hyatt Place. However, on many occasions, we have a hotel or resort that doesn’t offer free breakfast.
Or perhaps the hotel advertised free breakfast and when you arrived you find out it is Tampico and a hard roll {see below in Macchu Pichu}!
This means an early venture out to get food or hungry kids in the room. Breakfast can be a pricy way to start the day. Or you can use these easy hotel breakfast ideas to have food available within minutes of waking up.
You’ll be glad to have some of the foods listed below to supplement your meal!
And if you are traveling, you will love these Food on the Airplane ideas.
How to get food to the hotel room
A travel breakfast starts with getting easy and quick food options with you to a hotel room. There are multiple good options to bring food to eat for breakfast in a hotel room.
We check a box full of food to our final destination.
Order from Amazon and have it shipped to your location once you arrive. Schedule a Wal-mart to pick up once you arrive for a quick and easy start to be prepared on your trip.
Bringing food to the Hotel is the best idea for Families
Dragging kids out of a hotel room early with bed-head and bad breath sounds like a drag. But getting my kids all the way ready to go out without getting some food in them sounds equally exhausting. Not to mention the cost of feeding a family of 6 on-the-go!
So we have decided that we always eat breakfast in our hotel room. This saves us so much money, stress, and sanity.
With a little bit of preparation, you can create a breakfast of champions with only a coffee pot. {Or at least a simple, satisfying meal}
Usually, we only bring some disposable spoons and a few food items. If we have time the night before we may stop at a grocery store for some fresh goods. But it is easy to always carry a few of these breakfast items.
How to make Breakfast in a Hotel Room Using Only a Coffee Pot
Instant Oatmeal Packets
Instant oatmeal is our go-to hotel breakfast idea. My kids love the strawberries and cream flavor and the packets are small enough to fit in my purse. Add hot water from the coffee pot and “viola”. Breakfast is served! Typically hotels offer cups so you’ll only need a disposable spoon you can pick up almost anywhere along your journey and stick in your travel bag.
Cereal and Milk
Powered milk comes in perfectly sized travel packets from our local Dollar Tree. It makes enough milk to fill a coffee pot. Bring a box (or just the bag to save space) of your kid’s favorite cereal and add milk. Put the cereal in the cups the hotels provide and bring some spoons
If you are a better planner than I am, make the milk the night before and set it on ice or in the minifridge so it is chilled.
Boiled Eggs
Buy eggs at your location or do a quick and easy Walmart pick-up for food. It’s best if you have a mini-fridge in your room. Put the eggs in the coffee pot and add water. Turn on the heat setting 2-3 times and let the eggs sit for over 10 minutes. Once the eggs cool, peel and enjoy. Travel-sized packets of salt are easy to carry in your purse as well.
Canned fruit
Any of your favorite fruit in a pop-top can or fruit cups will be a favorite for kids. TIP: Sealed cans are allowed through security with a little extra screening. I bring fruit, vegetables, ravioli, and whatever my kids love at the time in the can. Pears, peaches, mandarin oranges and green beans are our favorite canned options.
Pop-top cans that make it easy to open on-the-go are essential so buy the right can!
Bagels and Cream Cheese
Bagels are dense enough to endure travel without falling apart. Travel packets of cream cheese are sold at most grocery stores. Check the deli section if they aren’t in the bagel or cheese section. Mini bagels are my kids favorites.
Hot Chocolate
My kids love anticipating hot chocolate in the morning of our hotel stays. Usually, the front desk has cups and lids for coffee, so grab a few to use for your kids. Hot chocolate packets are so small and easy to pack. Take them out of the box and just bring the number of packets you need to save space. We also love a herbal tea or Apple Cider.
100% Juice Boxes
Easy to open, hard to spill and quick energy! You can check juice boxes or pick up at your destinations (not TSA approved).
English Muffins and Travel-sized Jam
Next time you are at a breakfast buffet take a few extra jam packets for your next trip. Throw in a disposable knife for spreading.
Yogurt or Fruit Squeeze
Freeze go-gurts at home and then you can put them on ice once you get to the hotel. Frozen items are TSA approved! An easy and quick breakfast idea to get protein and dairy into the kids.
Fruit pouches are typically under 4 ounces which is also TSA approved. Just be sure to separate the food from your other bags so it can be inspected.
How to Make Breakfast in a Hotel Room with a Microwave
If your hotel room has a microwave, the options open up for hotel breakfast ideas. Sometimes hotel rooms don’t have a microwave in the room but do offer a community microwave in the ice machine area. Call ahead to see what your hotel or resort has to offer.
Pre-cooked Bacon or Sausage
Add to your egg meal a few slices of protein-packed bacon. Or make an Egg McMuffin with an English muffin, cut up hard boiled egg and a few strips of bacon. Mmmm… Bacon!
Breakfast Hot Pockets
All wrapped into an easy to eat roll, hot pockets will fill you up with ease. 
Mini-quiche
If you have a favorite quiche or egg casserole, make mini-versions in a cupcake pan. Freeze for later. Take them on your trip in a refrigerated bag and put on ice once you get to the hotel.
Pancake Wrapped Sausages
Found in the freezer section and easy to heat up in the morning.
Popcorn
Really? For breakfast? I know its odd, but my kids love it. Its such a small package to bring and easy to take with you as you travel. So if nothing else, pop some for the trip ahead.
How to Make Breakfast in a Hotel Room with a Fridge
Many of these options will be easier if your hotel has a mini-fridge. Call ahead to see what amenities each room has. We’ve been set up with some pretty fabulous mini-kitchens and then the possibilities are endless!
Even if you have a basic room, these hotel breakfast ideas can get you through the morning. If you don’t plan ahead you may end up eating a leftover pie from a birthday celebration last night!
Don’t want to cook or clean dinner at home? Find these simple yet awesome meal ideas here.
Food to take on the Airplane for kids
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We usually have complimentary breakfasts but my hubby and kids never get up in time to have those. Your tips are great. I already know which tips I will be following on my next holiday!