Kitchen or restaurant

Guests compare a nightly rate with a nightly rate, decide the hotel is close enough, and never notice that one of the two prices already includes a meal for every person, every morning. A family of four on seven nights is comparing prices that differ by twenty-eight breakfasts. That line has to go on the flat's side of the ledger before the comparison means anything, which is why it is here. The second point: self-catering is never all or nothing. Nobody on holiday cooks every meal, and a calculator that assumes they do produces a saving nobody recognises. So we ask how often a day you actually eat out — the honest answer is usually once. And the arithmetic scales with people, not nights: a restaurant charges per head, a pot of pasta does not. For a couple on two nights the kitchen is worth little; for five people on ten nights it decides everything.