Do your servers, etc.. know what tip you gave them?

[daltonsdodisney]

I'd read a trip report about a not so appreciative response to the recommended tip amount and I was just wondering how they know what you gave them. Do you write it on the envelope? Do they get it out and check it right in front of you or what? I don't intend to wait around, hoping for any response whether I tip the recommended, over, or under. It's all a little embarrassing to me. How is this handled?

[disney6]

If you give your servers their tip envelope on the last night of dinner and go to the sitdown breakfast the last morning you will see them again! They will of course had opened the envelope the night before and know what you gave them. If you want to avoid seeing them go to topsiders for your last breakfast.

[Live From the Magic]

Like disney6 said, they will not open them in front of you. They will probably look at them when they get off work that night.

[prymsu]

I can't remember for sure, but i know on Carnival there is a place for your table number and name, this may have been on the Disney envelopes too. Since I used the vouchers for disney, it had our names on them, so i can't remember if i put anything like our name and table number on the outside of our envelopes.

[GoofyDisney]

On the positive side of this....yes, we did see our servers and room hostess the next day after we gave them our tip cards. (We also gave phone cards with their tips. This seemed to go over especially well as our waiters made special mention of these.) And each of them was genuinely appreciative of what we gave them. Even the head waiter of the whole dining room guy, to whom we only gave the recommended tip. Each person showed genuine gratitude and appreciation for their tips and thanked my husand and myself and my inlaws personally. That was a nice benefit of them seeing you after they see what tip you gave them.

[clarkgriswold]

It's occurred to me that if you want to improve your chances of good service throughout the cruise, that you may want to do some light "extra" tipping over the course of the cruise. This will let the waiters and cabin steward/ess know that hard work and extra effort is very likely to be rewarded.

Make sense? Has anyone done this? Is if frowned upon or inappropriate etiqette or anything like that?

[PiperG]

We love your handle "Clark." Looking forward to hearing on this from more experienced cruisers. . . . . .

[TheTexasKid]

Makes sense to me. Though, I've done something a little different.
At the start of the cruise, I give them half of what I think I'm going to give them at the end of the cruise, which is usually 10% more then the recommendation, then tell them they get the other half at the end of the cruise, if I liked the service I've been given.
And it is in cash. That way, if they want to get off the ship, before it arrives back at Port Canaveral, they have a little spending money.
It has always worked for me. I have never had bad service. Of course, it could be, I've just been lucky. Enjoy!