Besides, half the fun of travelling is sampling new dishes - and (high end) hotel buffets can be the worst offenders, in many people's experience.

Lunch is a quiet hotel buffet with Booker, not a word spoken about the exam.

Tourists are usually advised to stick to the hotel buffet.

Common-sense precautions include avoiding untreated water, watching for dirty plates or cutlery and steering clear of cold or lukewarm hotel buffets.

Imagine a hotel buffet.

Adults went out to dinner at the organic vegetarian restaurant at Mizpe Hayamim - also great, very upscale even though it's a hotel buffet.

Maybe they are getting better quality breakfasts at the hotel buffet, or maybe Hurdle has instituted a "bring-your-own-pillow" policy on road trips.

Next Sunday, Mothers Day, they will include their mothers' best dishes as part of the hotel buffet in the ballroom.

Singapore is rather like a giant hotel buffet: everything is laid out nicely for you to sample at leisure.

There are roughly two kinds of brunches: the groaning boards of the hotel buffet and, elsewhere, food prepared to order.