Guest Houses

I also like a late breakfast if possible, and not sharing. I often check b and bs out online...website...TripAdvisor etc., to see all the details..and sometimes photos. If it's early breakfast all together, I go elsewhere. We went to one in the summer where they'd cook up until 10.30-very civilised!

I enjoy staying in B+B accomodation, although I wouldnt like to have to share a table and have to "small talk",and I would simply hate a long table.Its nice to say good morning when entering the dining room, but then it is nice to eat breakfast in peace. I recently stayed in a lovely B+B in Cornwall, the tables we quite close together so one could here others talking and exchanging tips for visitng places, it was nice to hear as I was alone on this trip.

We have stayed at a few B and Bs, they all had lovely bedrooms, but we've had the communal breakfast table a couple of times. I don't like it at all, I don't want to make conversation with complete strangers over the breakfast table, it's just not my thing! However, DH loves B and Bs complete with the communal breakfast table, he's a morning man, I'm an evening woman. I much prefer a nice hotel with a dining room where I don't have to make conversation with anyone other than the person I'm with; I also like an apartment (so long as it's high quality, I don't like poor quality ones) where we can do our own thing, eat what and when we want, and usually go out for dinner. We drove around Kefalonia earlier this year, staying at three different apartments, all lovely, and were able to start each day just how we wanted to, and luckily DH likes staying at rentals too.

I'm quite a sociable morning-lark-person, so I quite enjoy having the opportunity to talk with other guests at breakfast time. Mind you, reading all these replies, I am beginning to think it may not be reciprocated!
We once stayed in a very nice "boutique" guest house in Bath (The Bath House) where there wasn't a dining room; breakfast was delivered to your room on a tray, and there was a small table where you could eat it. It was a beautifully cooked and served breakfast, but I rather missed the sociability of the dining room, and the chance to talk to the owners or the other guests. So now all you grumpy, sleepy owl-people know where you can go for a private, silent breakfast!

I've stayed in several b and be in the past but never ever had to share a table. I don't mind a good morning or a few pleasant words but wouldn't want to get into a conversation especially at breakfast. However, I'm going on an escorted tour early next year so think it will probably be a case of shared breakfasts and dinners.