I usually only let them in once every 3 days just to replace towels. I make my own bed, and don't trash the place so I don't need much from them.
I wasn't aware I was supposed to tip. I pretty much never have cash anyway.
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I don't even let them in the room. Housekeeping left the door to my room open once for the entire day. I was across from the elevator. Thankfully nothing was stolen, but ya know, fool me once
Depends on where I'm at. In the U.S. (where I'm from), I would personally tip. I also tipped in Mexico when I vacationed there recently. I wouldn't tip in a no-tip/offensive-tip country (e.g. France).
I live in the US and I have never tipped housekeeping, nor have I ever heard of someone doing it.
Same tbh and I'm in the US. I didn't realize it was a common thing until I heard about someone doing it one day.
Sorry, but I only tip people that make a tipped wage like servers. I do not tip hotel staff. Many hotels have stopped servicing rooms every day unless you specifically request it anyway.
Depends where I'm staying. In no-tipping countries i wouldn't tip at all, but if it's common/expected, I'd leave some change on the bedside table in the morning when leaving the hotel/checking out.
On multi-night stays I tip if I want anything special, like extra coffee, or when my drunk friend destroyed the toilet. The only time I tip when leaving the hotel is if the housekeeper did something above and beyond normal expectations. Like when my wife started early and soiled the sheets. Left a note apologizing, a $20, and just expected fresh sheets. Nope. She replaced all the bedding and the mattress too. Left her another $20 and a thank you note when we checked out.
Tipping isn't a thing in my country, to the extent that if you left money lying around your room it would most probably still be there when you got back.
Unless maybe you were staying somewhere that gets a lot of tipping tourists.
it would most probably still be there when you got back.
What country is this
In EU I travelled for work for 10 yeara and i never used the small safe in the room, always left laptop, iPad , phone, wallet out. Never got robbed by the staff
New Zealand.
Yap, +1 on my bucket list.
Cool, hope you make it here one day! Which country do you live in?
Along side the serengeti
Ah that's such an interesting part of the world! Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya? I would offer to do a temporary house swap but I don't own my own house yet.
Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya?
Tanzania
Cool! Tanzania is a country I hope to learn more about. The wildlife is famous but I don't know much about the people and politics.
I've never heard of tipping housekeeping at hotels, why would you do that? They get paid by the hotel
Because it's a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.
While it's nice for the employee to get some extra bucks, tipping only supports minimal pay for the job because "they'll make up for it in tips".
Not tipping only punishes the victim, not the employer.
In pretty much every other country, you pay once and the worker gets paid from that.
It's pretty much only America where you pay once for the food and then again for the service because the employees wage is so horrifically low that they can't survive with out your direct subsidy.
Earning enough from your hourly rate/salary isn't a punishment, it just simplifies the process and removes the need for the "how much do we tip" conversation.
If you think the service was exceptional, you can still tip, it's just the difference between rewarding great work and tipping out of obligation.
The problem is that people in this thread are in the mindset that tipping encourages lower wages, when in reality, low wages encourage tipping. The US has an absurdly low minimum wage relative to the cost of living, and that minimum wage of $7.25 has an exemption for tipped employees who can earn as little as $2.33 an hour. While it's true that many states have higher minimum wages than the federal wage, there are several that are the same as federal.
My dudes in North America really have the most unstructured social support system.
That's exactly it. We recognize the failures in the pay structure and try to help people in the service industry, but it's gone completely overboard. A couple of dollars here and there is one thing, but 15-20% in a nice restaurant can be $50 and that seems ridiculous. If we stop tipping, we're only fucking the worker. We need for more restaurants to advertise that they pay a living wage.
Don't look at us. I'm north american and have been in hotels plenty of times and have no clue what this dude is talking about.
Tipping people or not tipping people isnβt whatβs perpetuating the system. Those who do tip arenβt at fault, itβs the ownership class exploiting workers so hard that theyβve delegated even their one, most basic duty off onto the customer: paying their fuckin employees.
You still have a 20% tip at restaurants, itβs insane
The 20% is relatively new. It was always around 10%, and then restaurants started "suggesting" higher tips on the receipts, and basically guilting people into tipping more. It was pushed up to 15% in the mid '00s, and then only pushed up to 20% during Covid. I have been called a piece of shit human on multiple occasions because I didn't buy into the restaurants randomly changing it on me. There is immense social pressure here around tipping.
The restaurants have a financial motivation to want the tips to be higher, so I feel like it's a conflict of interest for them to be suggesting the tip amount. I think the government needs to get involved and regulate tipping or even outright ban it at this point, because restaurants aren't going to stop pushing the envelope at 20%.
I went to a restaurant last month that automatically places a 20% tip on your receipt.
But if you pay by card like I do and don't read the fine print in the bottom of the menu front page like I do, you end up giving a 15% tip and then finding out about the 20% tip after you've accepted your food cost+ 15% on their stupid little tablet. And of course I'm not going to make a big deal about it. I'll just never come back.
The company has gotta compensate for inflation somehow, right? They dont want to actually pay their employees, no no no, that would cut into profit. They have to make even more money so they push it onto the customer. Agreed honestly fuck this shit.
I've never tipped hotel workers/housekeeping unless we're at an all inclusive resort, which I feel is standard to tip there. Maybe I'm wrong though reading comments here.
No, not in Europe. People get paid for their work here.
I was surprised when I first heard about workers getting tipped regularly in america. It's crazy.
I personally don't want anyone going in my room while I'm there. I thought covid finally changed this when hotels started only doing housekeeping between customers, or if requested, but unfortunately it seems like they are changing this back. It just seems like a waste of labor to have someone else make my bed.
I've never tipped people going into my room. I'd do it if I made a mess or something, though.
I sometimes leave out the do not disturb sign and then just grab fresh towels at the desk.
When you check in, just tell the desk that you don't want housekeeping sitting your stay.
Tip or don't tip, don't ever feel like there's an expectation to. Not always but I often leave 1-3 bucks in change usually when I check out, especially so if say the floor or bed gets a bit sandy or I check out at 11:10, something like that.
I don't tip at hotels, ever.
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