Another Tipping Question

[Lover_of_Disney]

While staying at the Yacht Club a bellman took my bags out of the trunk and sat them on the ground. Then another bellman took them to our room. I tipped the bellman who took our bags to the room but neglected to tip the gentleman who took our bags out of the trunk.

I took half of the bags out myself before he offered to help and I would have tipped him had he taken my bags to the room. Also, at the time I didn't have access to my money until I arrived at the room to unpack my purse. I didn't realize There were two people involved in this process. I went back down to tip the gentleman who originally helped me and I overheard him making cracks about me not tipping him. So, you guessed it, I didn't tip him at all!!

Just wondering, what is standard procedure for this?? How much do you tip the gentleman who "lifts" your bag out of the car and places them on the ground for someone else to deal with them?

 

[skfulkers]

This is a very good question. I would like to know how other people handle this, too. I always tip well and I usually tip for things that don't even require tipping, but I always get somewhat confused when I pull the car up to the resort and three or four bellmen come to the car at once. One may pull the bags out of the car, one may hand you the receipt, and another may take the bags away to storage to wait for you to get settled into your room. Then another bellman usually delivers the bags to your room. I always tip the one who brings them to your room, and I always manage to tip at least one of the guys who helps me get them out of the car, but what is actually standard procedure here? If you tipped every single person who touches your bags, you'd be out $25.00-$30.00 just to get your bags up to your room.
Anyone have any insight into this?

 

[ducklite]

I tip the guy who takes them out of the trunk (50 cents or so per bag, $1 for really heavy stuff), then I throw about the same for the guy who takes them to storage. The guy who brings them to the room gets $1-2 per bag (I count half full plastic grocery bags as a 2 for 1).

If I'm staying concierge where they're going to put it all on a cart and take me to the concierge area, then I tip the guy who takes the bags out of the truck as stated above, and then tip the guy who takes me to concierge $1-2 per bag and round up to the nearest $5, never less than $10.

Anne

PS--Speaking of grocery bags, last month they didn't bring all of ours to the room--they had left some in teh fridge. Keep taht grocery store receipt handy so you can figure out what you're missing easily--in our case it was the BEER!

 

[thewiz49]

When I travel I always tip when appropiate. I always get a $20 in ones and keep them in a money clip in my pocket seperate from my billfold, it's just easier that way. Now your question, most (yes most but not all) places that have bellman, doorman, valet parking, food servers, housekeeping ect share tips. This is done so these people will not "fight" over the people they feel will tip better or over which shift they want to work. (if you were a bellman which would you rush to a family with 3 children in an older mini-van, or the couple in the BMW). Sharing tips fairly distributes tips. Now that's not saying every bellman etc get the same share, shares may be based on shift, on seniority and other factors. Also ofcourse they could pocket a tip and not share it. All I wanted to say was that most places have a way to get a fair distribution of tips.