This is for the Hotel Breakfast, which gave my husband food poisoning.
We checked the public facilities (lobby, elevator, and breakfast room prior to commuting to having breakfast there. Things looked great and standard for a nice hotel chain.
When we showed up for breakfast (about 490 pesos/person), the service was fine. The waitstaff were more leisurely than the staff at our boutique hotel where we typically breakfast. It took about 15 min. to have coffee, unlike the almost instantaneous offer of coffee at our hotel.
The reason why we dined at the Fiesta Americana was we had to meet our tour there and we did not want to rush our breakfast.
The offerings were extensive: a lot more raw vegetables and fruits, smoked salmon, rice, eggs and chilaquiles, meat and fish dishes like baccahau. There was an omelette and quesadilla var where diners can order freshly-prepared omelettes and quesadillas.There were also piles of fresh pastries.
I took a little of everything and the flavors were milder than what we had experienced at our hotel. My husband, in addition took a healthy serving of smoked salmon.
We went on our tour and my husband stayed with the driver because of altitude-sickness. About 8 hrs. later, my husband threw up his breakfast and displayed all the symptoms of food poisoning. He lived on rice, jello and soup until after his return home 2 days later.
Researching how smoked salmon can cause food poisoning, it seems that the causes of Listeria, Salmonella, or E coli in smoked salmon is either expired or improperly handled smoked salmon.
The fact that Fiesta Americana, a chain that offers all-inclusive hotel stays in Nexico, was less than impeccable food hygiene definitely crosses it off my list of hotels that I would patronize. read more