Like free breakfast? Here are the top 10 places (Tanzania!) where you'll find that perk - Los Angeles Times
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Like free breakfast? Here are the top 10 places (Tanzania!) where you’ll find that perk

You'll find a free breakfast at 43% of U.S. hotels. After that, your best bet is to visit Tanzania.

You’ll find a free breakfast at 43% of U.S. hotels. After that, your best bet is to visit Tanzania.

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If you pick your hotels by offers of free breakfast, listen up. The country with the highest percentage of hotels serving free bagels, cereal or eggs is ... the United States.

Just 14% of hotels worldwide offer the freebie, but 43% of American hotels do, according to a report by travel booking site Hipmunk.

In fact, check out a dozen U.S. hotel chains that serve hot breakfasts.

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After that, the list of countries gets interesting.

Tanzania comes in second; 32% of its hotels include free breakfast.

That’s followed by nations that pretty much leave Europe in the dust:

3. Honduras (30%)

4. Peru (29%)

5. Sweden (29%)

6. Tunisia (28%)

7. Bolivia (27%)

8. Cambodia (25%)

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9. Colombia (24%)

10. Uruguay (24%)

When looking at luxury hotels that give you a complimentary breakfast, Tanzania comes in first with 50%, followed by Cambodia (48%), Croatia (45%), Italy (45%) and South Africa (44%).

In the U.S., luxury doesn’t mean everything. More than half of two-star hotels give guests free breakfast, but only 5% of the top five-star digs serve the meal for free.

And if it really really matters to you, online travel retailers such as Hipmunk allow you to filter your hotel searches to find those that offer free breakfast (or free Wi-Fi or free parking, etc.)

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The analysis was created by Priceonomics based on data collected from 500,000 hotels listed in Hipmunk’s database.

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