At the transfer desk now

[TestingH2O]

Tipping and transfers: Do we tip baggage handlers at the airport? Bus driver? Here now and unsure.

 

[Barbydoll8]

Yes. Customary is usually around $1-$2 per bag.

 

[RedSox68]

Yes as PP said, and we tip the bus driver usually $5 (but the last time we took the bus was a decade ago).

 

[hanscarlet]

we do $4-$5 a bag at the sky caps at the airport and we gave our DCL bus driver $5, if no DCL, make sure to give the porters that handle your luggage about $3-$5 bag

 

[ladyofthetramp]

We tipped the bus driver $5-he did not handle any bags.

 

[lbus42]

we do $4-$5 a bag at the sky caps at the airport and we gave our DCL bus driver $5, if no DCL, make sure to give the porters that handle your luggage about $3-$5 bag

I feel cheap now. i only gave the porters $2 a bag. Would have given more if i had read this before my trip. LOL

 

[MSPeeler]

This is why we want to carry on all bags, lol. I don't want anyone handling my bags, especially not if I have to pay them.

I can't be the only frugal person on this board!!

 

[lbus42]

I look at it as I am on vacation. I paid thousands of dollars for this, so I can afford a few dollars more to let porters handle the bags. Since you are frugal, and don't mind carrying your own bags on board, maybe I can tip you to carry mine on next time. Then you can be frugal and making money at the same time. LOL.

 

[MickeyEarrings]

Tipping amounts vary geographically. Here in Indiana $1-2 per bag is common and considered the standard. In a big city I might be seen as cheap. However, common thought is that everyone who touches your bag in your presence should be tipped.

I tip the bus driver $5 simply for giving me a pleasant ride and I go up from there. It seems few people tip the driver.

 

[MSPeeler]

I look at it as I am on vacation. I paid thousands of dollars for this, so I can afford a few dollars more to let porters handle the bags. Since you are frugal, and don't mind carrying your own bags on board, maybe I can tip you to carry mine on next time. Then you can be frugal and making money at the same time. LOL.

You got a deal!

 

[wcw57]

unless the driver offered me a service beyond that which he is being paid for, I see no reason to tip him. IDK.
Skycaps get a few bucks...maybe averages out to $1.50/bag from me. Porters get $1-$2/bag.
I was talking to a porter in a NICE Atlantic City hotel/casino (which means pricier rooms/upscale clientele) and he said many, if not most, don't tip at all. THIS i just don't get

 

[bumbershoot]

I feel cheap now. i only gave the porters $2 a bag. Would have given more if i had read this before my trip. LOL

Don't feel that way based on a post. The person you're responding to is at the higher end of the tipping scale IMO.

This is why we want to carry on all bags, lol. I don't want anyone handling my bags, especially not if I have to pay them.

I can't be the only frugal person on this board!!

Tipping is part of travel.

If you're on the dcl transfer bus there is no room for anything but what the airline considers a "personal item". Rolling "carryons" in airline terms just don't have anywhere to go in the passenger compartment on that bus. So even if you're "carryon" only for the flight or cruise, if you take the dcl bus you're going to be putting those roller bags under the bus. And that means the driver does it; we do not do that action.

And it's customary to tip people who are dealing with your bags.

Be frugal all you want at home. Doing so helps create the tip fund for me!

 

[MakiraMarlena]

You can't carry on bags that are too large to fit through an airport scanner. Those will have to be checked with the porters.

 

[Napoleon Dynamite]

You can't carry on bags that are too large to fit through an airport scanner. Those will have to be checked with the porters.

We have always carried our luggage off the ship to the bus, and never had to check it with a porter. Most recent time being last Summer.

 

[dcassetta]

We have always carried our luggage off the ship to the bus, and never had to check it with a porter. Most recent time being last Summer.

Off of the ship and on to the ship are two different processes. Bags do have to fit through the scanners when boarding the ship. Bags do not have to go through the scanners coming off the ship.

 

[DLM1980]

My luggage travels with me to the port on a bus I'm being expected to tip a driver and a porter, yet driving and handling bags are their jobs

I leave the ship and use onboard airline checkin I don't see my luggage at all till I get home and am still expected to tip the bus driver

Is there a place I can leave my luggage so it gets on the ship without the use of a porter? Like airline desks? If so porter use should be optional


How come nobody tips a city bus driver? Or the baggage handlers at the airport or even the captain of my airplane but the second I get on a "vacation bus" it's tipping time? Before the flames start I do tip but why are we tipping? Are bus drivers and porters getting waitstaff wages or are they being paid at least minimum wage. I'd hate to think my life is being put into the hands of someone driving a bus for $5.03 an hour

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

The debarkation tape said 1 to 3 dollars per bag for the shore porters and w also gave the bus driver $5.00.

AKK

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

How come nobody tips a city bus driver? Or the baggage handlers at the airport or even the captain of my airplane but the second I get on a "vacation bus" it's tipping time? Before the flames start I do tip but why are we tipping? Are bus drivers and porters getting waitstaff wages or are they being paid at least minimum wage. I'd hate to think my life is being put into the hands of someone driving a bus for $5.03 an hour.

City drivers get full wages and benefits. We tip airport porters, just like I would train porters. Vacation bus driver, hotel staff follow along that tradition. Pilots, ship officers require alot of formal college and education, more training and experience to do their jobs and they are paid that directly from the employers.

Personally I would prefer all people get a living wage and benefits and forget tipping all together.

AKK

 

[ladyofthetramp]

I have never had a bad shore porter-pleasant, they get me into the right line and help us out. I tip them generously and they appreciate it. Part of the vacation budget.

 

[MUN]

I take the bus to work everyday. I don't tip my bus driver.