The Hotel Conundrum

Hotels. Lots of great features, food, and comfort. I just visited one last week and the one thing that blows my mind is hotel coffee. Millions and millions are spent to create a lavish atmosphere, comfortable rooms, and decadent food but how ironically tragic is it that they still stick you with instant coffee. Wonderful breakfast buffets with treats from around the world but the coffee provided tastes like sour cherries made possible by Nescafe or some other instant coffee. Why is that?

It's like: Ketchup on a Filet Migon, Jeans at the Opera, or Chocolate-covered Roaches: its simply just not meant to be.

Good, real coffee is not expensive. A genuine Five-star hotel certainly wouldn't try to pass off fake steak for real steak or grape juice as wine so can't they finish the overall experience with some real whole bean 100% Arabica Coffee. Is that too much to ask?

Deviously the hotel I stayed at last week put a french press in our room to give the illusion of real coffee. But alas the instant coffee they provided has no need for a french press as it dissolves it's sludge-like smoothness right into the hot water without the aid of the french apparatus.