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Plenty of hotels offer this, but it depends where you are looking.
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We had it in Tunisia a few years ago, although we only had the lunch once.
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yes??? Yes you know of some places? or yes they do? :que

Linzi, lets try and help you a little bit more than the last answer will have done.

Do you have a destination in mind, a specific area of a particular country?

I have heard of it being offered in places in the Canary Islands as they just mark you off at mealtimes..so as long as you are just having breaksfast plus one other meal a day, they were not bothered which meal..in fact I think a hotel in Tenerife (Los Cristianos if i remember correctly) let you buy a meal for a couple of euro's..so if you were SC, you could buy breakfast.
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if you book HB in a hotel that serves both lunch and dinner you should not have any problems choosing which one you want.
you would usually have to do this in resort at the hotel as it is very unusual for a tour operator to specify this in the brochure.
i have done this many times in the past where i have just asked the receptionist the night before (it's only polite to ask first) if we could have lunch instead of dinner and in these days of buffet meals it is never an issue.
i would not change it on a permanent basis for the whole of my holiday unless i was just sitting by the pool all day and going out at night, as i would never rush to get back to a hotel just for lunch.
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We had it in Tunisia a few years ago, although we only had the lunch once.


I always found this to be the case when staying HB in hotels Tunisia too - they left it up to you which meal you took and just ticked you off their list for the day. As they like you to sit at the same table throughout your stay this is aasy for them to monitor and they are pretty relaxed about it.

In one hotel - sorry can't remember which - they gave you the option of up grading to FB very, very cheaply (NB not AI) and I did that because it was half the price of buying a second meal in the hotel! Reckoned it was worth it for the convenience even though I only actually ate both meals on half the days, if you see what I mean. I did something similar in the Gambia because I was on my own and felt a bit uncertain about how comfortable I'd feel about going out of the hotel to eat on my own and again the FB uprade was much cheaper than paying for it separately each day. In the end, I only did take both meals in the hotel on half the days of the week long holiday but at £25 extra for the week, it was still worth doing.

SM

I can't offer any info on hotels elsewhere because I usually do self-catering or when in Cuba I stay with families but most tourist hotels are AI there anyway - the only ones which aren't are usually the big 5* city centre hotels where they assume that you'll be out and about suring the day and often don't offer a lunchtime service anyway apart from light snacks.

SM
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