When we tip, we do it the morning of to ensure that the person getting the tip is the person doing the work. If we ever have an unsatisfactory result, I am sure we would make a call...
That's how we tip, too.
I always worry if we wait to tip til end of stay, the tip could go to someone who is cleaning our room for the first time.
Exactly.
$10 a day for two very clean people. Clean to the point where I bring extra grocery bags to line trash cans with if necessary. (BTW does Disney do this in FL? I know they do at the DLH in CA.) I usually leave it with a note requesting extra towels or toiletries.
Honestly I tend to not tip on the final morning because I have too much going on with packing and checking out. I try to remember but I usually fail.
Wow, that's a lot more than we tip! And to me, forgetting to tip on the *last* day means you're giving the person that will be doing the most, the least. The housekeepers before might not be putting new sheets on the bed, etc, but they WILL be doing that for the next guests, so they are working harder on that checkout day. And it might not be the same person who had been working in your room before.
Tipping is totally personal, and you tip WAY more than me so I'm not (not not not, I promise!) being judgy, but I'm trying to help you see that since you're a great tipper already, you're possibly missing the person who will work the hardest. Of course, you won't be the beneficiary of that work, but on the other hand, you got that benefit on checkin day, and didn't necessarily get a tip to *that* person. So it can feel like a full circle if you tip on checkout day.
For those of you that do tip on a daily basis, how do you alert them that they money is for them? If you just leave a few bucks on the night stand, I would thing that they may not think it's for them, and leave it.
Any neat Disney-esque ideas?
I usually write a quick note: "For Housekeeping". I try to put it in a very obvious, otherwise clear, space.
And I do not leave ANY other change out whatsoever. This wasn't at a Disney hotel, but during my brother's wedding weekend, I was staying in a connected suite with my mom and stepdad. They were taking care of the (incredibly generous) tipping for the entire suite. Just before the wedding I had a last minute purse-emptying, and there was random change sitting amongst the other junk that accumulates in a purse over time.
When I came back to the room before the reception, the housekeeper had taken every coin, picking through all the rest of the stuff.
And of course they took the big tip in the living room of the 2 bedroom suite as well.
So I make VERY sure to have just one spot that's an obvious tip so there are no misunderstandings.