So who do you tip? (fast food, Congress, illegal, borders)
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Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda
[/list]I'm surprised that several people are unaware of this practice. I'm going to assume that you only travel occasionally because most business travelers are quite familiar with this. It is usually just the people who vacation once a year or so who express surprise at this.
Tipping housekeeping staff in hotels is just as expected as tipping the bellman or valet.
I'm sorry but this tipping stuff is way out of hand. I usually pay an arm and leg just to stay at a decent hotel and now I need to fork over MORE money to tip the housekeeping staff? Gosh! When will this all end?
I'm sorry but this tipping stuff is way out of hand. I usually pay an arm and leg just to stay at a decent hotel and now I need to fork over MORE money to tip the housekeeping staff? Gosh! When will this all end?
I won't tip housekeeping staff at all. I've no way of knowing "who" will clean the room from one day to the next, and I'm not about to pre-tip someone who didn't clean it already.
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Originally Posted by Bluesbabe
I won't tip housekeeping staff at all. I've no way of knowing "who" will clean the room from one day to the next, and I'm not about to pre-tip someone who didn't clean it already.
Most of the up scale hotel properties provide the name of the person responsible for taking care of the room - if nothing else, you can leave an envelope, with that persons name on it, at the front desk.
I generally will leave a monetary tip the morning after the first night - and it usually works out that our room is VERY well attended to -
I won't tip housekeeping staff at all. I've no way of knowing "who" will clean the room from one day to the next, and I'm not about to pre-tip someone who didn't clean it already.
That's why you do as I proscribed above, leaving an envelope marked HOUSEKEEPING in an obvious place when you leave your room for the day, every day. That way the person who comes in to clean is the person who walks out with the tip. Simple.
That's why you do as I proscribed above, leaving an envelope marked HOUSEKEEPING in an obvious place when you leave your room for the day, every day. That way the person who comes in to clean is the person who walks out with the tip. Simple.
Okay, so then the housekeeper gets a pre-tip, then? If I leave a tip marked 'housekeeping' (and I've stayed in a couple of hotels that provided envelopes just for that) on my first day there, then who gets it ~ the one who already prepared my room, or the one about to after I leave for the day? Still sounds like pre-tipping.
Doesn't sound so simple to me.
Tipping has escalated way out of hand. I never even heard of tipping hotel maids until recent years.
I've been tipping hotel maids for nearly 30 years. It's not a new practice.
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