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View Poll Results: Who do you tip?
Waiters/waitresses (full service) 113 94.96%
Waiters/waitresses at buffets or other partial service places 64 53.78%
Bartenders 95 79.83%
Pizza/food delivery 103 86.55%
Hair cutters (barbers etc) 95 79.83%
Maids/hotel service 54 45.38%
Taxis 79 66.39%
Movers 49 41.18%
I don't tip 2 1.68%
other (desc) 15 12.61%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 119. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
Old 06-17-2009, 08:53 PM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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[/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?
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Old 06-17-2009, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Yes
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The first 5, but not the last 3
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Old 06-17-2009, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth Texas
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Well?
even bad waitreses need the money. These people depend on it for a living.
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Old 06-17-2009, 08:56 PM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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even bad waitreses need the money. These people depend on it for a living.
If they need the money bad enough, then they do their job properly. Waitresses are not welfare recipients so they need to work for the tip.
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Old 06-17-2009, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Portlandia "burbs"
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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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Old 06-17-2009, 10:12 PM
 
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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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.
Exactly! I'm not pre-tipping anyone.
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Old 06-17-2009, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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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 -
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Old 06-17-2009, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
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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.
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Old 06-18-2009, 12:26 AM
 
Location: Portlandia "burbs"
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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.
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Old 06-18-2009, 12:30 AM
 
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
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I've been tipping hotel maids for nearly 30 years. It's not a new practice.
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