The long-awaited vacation for many is associated with a trip to the sea, during which you want to forget about all the worries and troubles of everyday life. Cleaning and cooking take a lot of energy, so most vacationers prefer not to think about them on vacation. Choosing a hotel and type of food is not an easy task. How to save money and still get high quality service? Hotels in Turkey and Egypt often work on the All Inclusive system, and the tourist has no choice but to go and pay for what he may not need. And many, having “enjoyed” such a service, prefer a different vacation. In Europe, most of the hotels offer meals HB, FB, but there are also many where you can be content with only BB. So what do these magic letters mean?
Types of food in hotels
These designations are abbreviations, and of course they come from the English language. BB means bed&breakfast (bed and breakfast). Well, in the case of HB (half board) and FB (full board), we are talking about half and full board. The first is breakfast and dinner included in the cost of living, which sometimes, by agreement with the administration, can be replaced with lunch, and the second is nothing more than the usual three meals a day.
In all casesfree drinks are served for breakfast, but for drinking juice, tea, coffee or something stronger at lunch or dinner, you will have to pay out of your own pocket. But there are exceptions. You can identify them by additional characters. For example, if FB meals have the additional designation "+", hotel guests are offered free drinks (often certain ones) at all meals.
Sometimes this symbol may be replaced by others, or there may be no such mark at all. In this case, it is better to get reliable information first-hand, namely from the hotel staff.
FB food is a way to save money and not keep a figure
Often, many tourists complain that they have gained a few extra pounds while staying in a hotel where meals are organized according to the principle “take as much as you want, when you want”. Indeed, how difficult it is to deny yourself anything on vacation, because between breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks of ice cream, sweets, potatoes and other goodies are offered. A lot of tourists spend their holidays on the principle of "let's go to the fullest." Hence the abuse of not only food, but also alcohol.
Another thing is that FB is a type of food that will allow you not to get fat, since in this case there will be no temptation to intercept something on the way from the sea to the room. And the second important point is saving on the cost of the tour. Well, what to spend the saved money on, there is always a trip.
HB and FB nutrition - important to know
Another subtlety that not all tourists know about. Most often FB foodimplies the so-called "buffet", that is, an unlimited number of approaches and a wide range of dishes offered.
However, some hotels are moving away from this principle by offering a la carte meals to vacationers. In this case, on the eve or during breakfast, you need to decide what will be served on the table for lunch or dinner by choosing from the menu. But even in these hotels, cold appetizers and salads are often offered on a buffet basis.
Many tourists are disappointed when they find out that the hotel they have chosen offers à la carte meals, fearing that they will go hungry. This opinion is, of course, erroneous. Yes, there will probably not be such a huge daily choice, but, on the other hand, in this case, you can get food of much higher quality, and this is also important. Indeed, in this case, the probability that you will have to eat pasta for breakfast, their own in a salad for lunch and in the form of a casserole for dinner, is almost zero.
