I always tend to forget to tip people I don't see. Do you leave tips for the hotel maid when you travel?
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I always tend to forget to tip people I don't see. Do you leave tips for the hotel maid when you travel?
Only when staying multiple nights, but always when I go to Mexico on vacation.
I do, it's just something my parents taught me to do. Now, would I tip a maid that cleaned my house? Probably not. Weird.
I do not, have not, and will not have a maid either.
Isn't that why we get married? ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpie
I tip the maid.
But then she gets back up again.
I usually don't tip the maid in a hotel, but we do tip the people who clean our house.
i don't but i aso leave the do not disturb hanger out the duration of my stay. i don't need someone to make my bed, and towels are fine for 3-4 days of use....
I have never even through about tipping the maid at a hotel, never crossed my mind. Don't they get paid to clean the rooms by the hotel?
I really don't get the whole tipping thing except at a restaurant or bar. Seems like everywhere I go somebody wants a tip for taking my money or doing the job they are already being paid to do. If I pay to have a job done I expect it to be done well and charged the going rate. If I do a good job nobody tips me, and if I do a bad job I get canned.
Robert (cheap bas...) Jones
I tip when on vacation in places where they rarely pay a good wage (Latin America), and when I get exceptional service (Big Bend National Park). I almost never tip in regular American chain hotels, unless I request something special, or get the happy ending.
+1 @ Robert. I tip at restaurants and bars, and I tip pretty well, but most other places i'd be more inclined to give a good word to their manager for exceptional service. I know there are some places that the management frowns on their employees accepting tips.
When we went to Mexico we got off the plane and worked a deal with one of those cab drivers to take us the 1 or 2 hour ride from Cancun to Playa del Carmen. Basically told the guy all I had was $30 or whatever so that's what i'd pay. Get out at our hotel and I paid the guy that did all the talking, I added a decent tip on top of what we negotiated, then he said I needed to tip the driver... I told him I just gave him all I had and that included tip for both of them. We sat there in the parking lot for about 5 minutes they looking at me the whole time like I was a jackass gringo.
I felt bad, but I only had big bills so I paid in $20s and I wasn't going to tip the guy another $20. I didn't even know you were supposed to tip cab drivers, I was just being nice.
Should you tip at an all inclusive that specifies tips included? I didn't, but I saw other people tipping.
::Banana:: I tip strippers.
I worked my way through college by picking up tips.............
I worked in the circumcision ward.::Rimshot:
Nice Guy Eddie: C'mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don't tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don't believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don't believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make shit.
Mr. Pink: Don't give me that. She don't make enough money that she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie: I don't even know a fucking Jew who'd have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don't ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?
Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.
NSFW. Robert=Mr. Pink :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_pdC7IEz1o
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Never even thought about tipping a hotel maid. They get paid by the hotel, after all...
I'll tip them if I stay for an extended time.
The tipping I refuse to do is at places like Subway or Jamba Juice or Starbucks. If I'm at the counter and you hand me my food or drink you aren't waiting on me, I'm waiting on you.
I leave $2 a night.
Call it a little insurance that my stuff that I leave in the room does not get messed with.
+1, I usually leave a few bucks a night per person. I can't imagine the maids make a good hourly wage from the hotel and it's not a fun job, plus people have to eat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zig
Checked out of the Four Seasons a few hours ago. I left $3 each day. Nothing walked away and I had an extra bottled water left each day. My coworker did not tip, and didn't get the extra water. ;-)