The importance of good coffee

Coffee, the good kind

I need to come out and admit that I am not only a hotel-oholic. I am also a coffee-oholic. I love my coffee. I don’t consider myself to be a coffee snobb (ok, maybe a little), but coffee is something I take seriously. Too me, life is too short to drink bad coffee.

I want to bring up something I have thought about a lot when staying at different hotels and that is; how come it is so rare with good coffee? I fully understand if you stay at a hotel with 500+ rooms that it is impossible to have a barista serving up a really good cappuccino but there are a surprising amount of smaller boutique hotels that only offer filter coffee that has been sitting around too long or even worse, a machine that makes something that I think is supposed to look like coffee. Not sure how much coffee is actually in that cup of joe.

And the interesting things is that it feels like people in general nowadays are more picky about their coffee (or maybe it is me rewriting reality to build my own case), with more and more independent coffee bars opening up across the globe. Why do we accept drinking bad coffee when staying in a hotel?

So this is a request to all you hoteliers out there, if there is something worth investing in (ok, maybe not now during the pandemic when many businesses in hospitality are down on their knees, but hopefully better days are around the corner) is really good coffee. I would suggest to take out some of the things from the breakfast menu and instead offer up the possibility for a frothy cappuccino. It could even be at an extra cost. Remember, coffee fanatics such as myself are usually pretty desperate for it in the morning so there could be extra money to earn on us. Just an idea. ;-)

Below some among my favorite hotels that take coffee as seriously as I do.

Ok, that was my 2 cents for today.