My Premier Inn breakfast piece has turned out to be one of the more popular things on the site, so it seemed only fair to put the Travelodge breakfast deal through exactly the same sums. I have already compared the two chains on the full cost of a stay in my Travelodge breakfast deal vs Premier Inn comparison, but I admitted there that I could not pin down the dinner prices. This is the standalone version, with those gaps filled in from Travelodge’s own website.
The Travelodge Breakfast Deal
The headline offer is an unlimited breakfast from £9.99 per adult. Up to two children aged 15 or under then eat for £1 each, as long as an adult orders the full priced breakfast. Travelodge adds a note that prices vary by site, so £9.99 is where the pricing starts rather than a promise about your particular hotel.
What you get is a proper spread. The grill section has bacon, Cumberland sausages, scrambled eggs, hash browns, beans, mushrooms and tomatoes, with Quorn sausages for anyone avoiding meat. The bakery adds croissants, bagels and pancakes, there are cereals, fruit and yoghurt, and the drinks are unlimited too, including Lavazza coffee. Unlimited means unlimited, so you can go back as often as your dignity allows.
One thing worth clearing up. You will see the Travelodge kids breakfast described as free in places, and it came up as free when I costed my Edinburgh stay. That looks to have been a summer promotion. The standard offer on the breakfast menu and the website is £1 per child, so check which one is running when you book.
| What | Price | The detail |
|---|---|---|
| Adult unlimited breakfast | From £9.99 | Varies by hotel and shown at checkout |
| Child breakfast, up to two per paying adult | £1 each | Aged 15 or under, and the adult must buy the full priced breakfast |
| Breakfast To Go | Not covered | The £1 kids offer excludes it |
The Catches With the Travelodge Breakfast Deal
It is a good offer, but it is not without small print. These are the things I would check before you build a trip around it.
| The catch | What to check |
|---|---|
| Only some hotels serve it | Unlimited breakfast is served at hotels with a Bar Café, which Travelodge puts at over 230 of its 600 plus hotels. Check yours has one before you plan around it. |
| The age limit is worded two ways | The breakfast menu says aged 15 or under, while the website says under 15. If you are travelling with a 15 year old, ask before you assume. |
| Serving times | Travelodge hotel pages list 7am to 10am on weekdays and 8am to 11am at weekends and bank holidays, though some hotels differ. |
| Helpful tip | Travelodge suggests adding breakfast to your online basket before you complete the booking, which helps you skip the queue in the Bar Café. |
The Travelodge Meal Deal and Kids Menu
Premier Inn bundles breakfast and dinner into one price. Travelodge does not, so you build it yourself. According to Travelodge’s own restaurants page, the meal deal is a main plus a side or a dessert from £14.75, and the Little Lodgers kids menu is from £7.50. Both carry the same note that prices vary by site, which is exactly why I could not give you one clean number last time.
The kids menu is worth a closer look. On the Little Lodgers menu, each child chooses a main, a dessert and a drink, and the table gets a free garlic flatbread or corn on the cob while you wait. The mains cover chicken goujons, fish fingers, sausage and mash, a burger, pizza, pasta and a vegan sausage option, the desserts include a knickerbocker glory, and the drinks are a Fruit Shoot, milk or squash. That drink matters for the maths, because as far as I can tell the Premier Inn kids meal I priced does not include one.
Does the Maths Actually Work?
I have used the same family as my Premier Inn piece, one adult and two children, so you can compare like with like.
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Adult unlimited breakfast | £9.99 |
| Two children’s breakfasts at £1 each | £2.00 |
| Adult meal deal (main plus a side or dessert) | £14.75 |
| Two Little Lodgers meals at £7.50 each, drinks included | £15.00 |
| Total | £41.74 |
That is £41.74 to feed one adult and two children at dinner and breakfast. The same family came to £33.99 in my Premier Inn breakfast deal piece, which included a drink with the adult dinner and free breakfasts for the children. So on paper Premier Inn wins the full day by £7.75.
That is not quite a fair fight, though. The Little Lodgers price includes a drink for each child, and the Premier Inn kids meals did not. Premier Inn’s own kids eat free terms mention a drink priced at £1.99 or more, so I have assumed roughly £2 a drink to level things up.
| Item | Travelodge | Premier Inn |
|---|---|---|
| Family total as priced above | £41.74 | £33.99 |
| Two kids’ drinks | Included | About £4.00 (assumed £2 each) |
| Like for like total | £41.74 | About £37.99 |
That narrows the gap to about £3.75, which is much closer than the headline suggests. It is my estimate rather than a menu price, so check what a kids’ drink costs at your hotel before you rely on it.
A few other things are worth bearing in mind. These are all “from” prices, the Premier Inn figures are from when I wrote that piece, and a cheaper Travelodge room can easily swallow a £3.75 gap.
If it is only breakfast you are after, the picture changes. Two adults and two children come to £21.98, which is about £5.50 a head for an unlimited cooked breakfast. Premier Inn’s own page puts its adult breakfast at from £11.99 with up to two children free, as I covered in my Premier Inn free breakfast code piece, so the same four people would pay £23.98 there. On breakfast alone, the Travelodge breakfast deal comes out about £2 cheaper.
What’s the Food Actually Like?
I would love to tell you the scrambled eggs were a triumph, but I have not eaten the Travelodge breakfast yet, and I would rather admit that than invent a review. On paper the menu is solid, and a proper Bar Café breakfast is a very different thing from the Breakfast To Go box. If you have tried it, tell me in the comments how it compares.
So, Is the Travelodge Breakfast Deal Worth It?
As a breakfast offer, it is genuinely good, particularly for families. A pound per child for an unlimited cooked breakfast, with Lavazza coffee thrown in, is the sort of deal that makes the room price feel a little less painful. The dinner side is less of a bargain, because there is no bundle and the sums came out about £3.75 behind Premier Inn once I added the kids’ drinks.
The catch that matters most is the Bar Café lottery. If your hotel does not have one, none of this applies, and that is worth checking before breakfast steers where you book. Weigh the whole stay, not just the eggs. My full stay comparison found the two chains close enough that a few pounds on breakfast is not a reason to switch on its own.
Premier Inn is also running a free breakfast code at the moment, for bookings made by 9 November 2026, and the details are in my free breakfast code piece. If you are travelling with children, I have also put together a guide to kids eat free UK deals across other chains, with the catches spelled out.
One more thing worth doing before you book is to check whether the stay qualifies for cashback through a site like Quidco or TopCashback. It takes about two minutes, and even a few pounds back on the room rate makes a good deal slightly better.
A pound a head is hard to argue with, as long as your hotel has somewhere to eat it. Have you tried the Travelodge breakfast, and was it worth getting out of bed for?