Now, let’s talk about the Express Start Breakfast. The name sounds like a corporate slogan, but it’s a hot, free breakfast that doesn’t judge you for grabbing three pastries.
Express Holiday Inn Edinburgh, Scotland
There’s a machine that squirts out scrambled eggs that look like yellow clouds—fluffy, slightly deflated, but oddly satisfying. I watched a man in a kilt pour hot tea with the intensity of a surgeon, and I nodded in silent approval.
My pro tip: grab a seat near the window. You can watch tourists get lost on their way to the hotel while you plot your day like a sleepy spy.
