Bell Service Tip Question?

[DrKnow]

Hello all - I noticed on my last trip that there is a different person that picks up my bags from my room from the person that puts my luggage in my vehicle. Do you tip both people? The first person? The last person? If both, how much to each person? Thanks!

 

[BigAlsGal]

I was told by bell service people they arent suppose to accept tips. The only people you tip at disney are servers and DME bus drivers. Maybe im wrong though.

 

[Sue M]

It is confusing. For sure you tip the person who picks up your luggage. I tip $1.00/bag. I'm not sure what the protocol is for the guy who puts luggage in or takes out of car. But I'd like to know too!!

 

[Clare Voince]

I tipped Bell Service when they brought my bags to my room. I always assumed it was like valet, where they all split the tips.

 

[aVASTGrl]

Everyone who handles my bags get a tip. Except whoever drops off our luggage from Magical Express since we're always in the Parks by then.

 

[kimieko]

I tipped the guy that brought our bags to our room on arrival day and the one that picked them up for departure. I tried to tip the bell hop when getting our stroller and groceries that were waiting for us and he told me he couldn't accept and to give it to kid that ran and got our stroller. He was the internal shuttle driver at Carribean beach.

 

[Jfsag123]

I was told by bell service people they arent suppose to accept tips. The only people you tip at disney are servers and DME bus drivers. Maybe im wrong though.

I tried to tip a man in bell services at the Contemporary for storing and retrieving our rented stroller and he would not take the tip. I kept trying to give it to him and he kept turning me down.

 

[Networth]

I give them $10-20 when we check in and they unload the car and bring the bags to our room and another $10-20 when they load up our room and drive us to our car. I've never been told they could not accept a tip. I have never needed to tip them for holding a stroller though so

 

[Veronica Richardson]

The only people you tip at disney are servers and DME bus drivers.

 

[Clare Voince]

The only people you tip at disney are servers and DME bus drivers.

Maybe that's the only people YOU tip. It's customary to tip bell services, valet attendants, and housekeeping in the hotel industry, and Disney is NO different. Touring Plans has a FAQ. It's a dollar a bag for Bell services. Mousekeeping should be a dollar per person, per day.

 

[goofy4tink]

I was told by bell service people they arent suppose to accept tips. The only people you tip at disney are servers and DME bus drivers. Maybe im wrong though.

The only people you tip at disney are servers and DME bus drivers.

Bell Services and Valet Services are both tippable positions at WDW. I have had just one Luggage Assistance CM refuse my tip.....and that was because he felt I had had very poor service when having my bags transferred from BC to POR!!! Other than that? Nope, everyone gets tipped. I'm not sure why anyone would think Bell Services don't get tipped. As for DME drivers? Nope. If you have tagged your bags and you have no bags stowed beneath the DME bus you are on, no tip is required. I don't tip a bus driver for merely driving the bus. Now, if he does something out of the ordinary? Sure. If I have a bag stowed beneath the bus? Sure...that's expected. He has now 'handled' my bag.
However...housekeeping? If you ask Disney for a list of tippable positions, housekeeping will not be on it. Yes, they will accept your tips, but it isn't expected by Disney, they're employer. Bell Services is a tippable position, according to Disney.


As far as the OPs question....that's a hard one. The time we stayed at the Polynesian, we arrived by towncar. There was a CM out there, to grab our bags, so fast it was incredible. He brought the bags to the Bell stand. From there another CM took them inside. Then, a third CM took them to our room, with us, in a golf cart. Each one of those CMs literally had their hand out for a tip!!! We had 4 bags, so it was $5 times 3....just to get from the car to the room. It was ridiculous. I no longer require help with my bags. If I have to store them, I tip $1 a bag when I drop the bags off. When I have them delivered to my room, it's another $1 per bag, plus a bit more if the service was speedy. Same thing when I store the carryon bags at the end of my stay.....a few dollars when I drop my carry on bag off, a few dollars when I return to get it.

 

[BigAlsGal]

Maybe that's the only people YOU tip. It's customary to tip bell services, valet attendants, and housekeeping in the hotel industry, and Disney is NO different. Touring Plans has a FAQ. It's a dollar a bag for Bell services. Mousekeeping should be a dollar per person, per day.

Sorry I forgot mousekeeping. I do tip them. I was just going by what bell service people at disney told me. At CBR we had bell service drive us to our section and handle our bags. As I tried to tip him he said "oh no we aren't allowed to accept tips...thank you though". As far as valet I guess I don't think about that as I never valet park my car. I just thought disney had different rules about bell service accepting tips. I know who it's customary to tip. I really would like to know though if anyone else had bell service unable to accept tips. I would hate to not tip someone if that guy was wrong.

 

[BigAlsGal]

I tipped the guy that brought our bags to our room on arrival day and the one that picked them up for departure. I tried to tip the bell hop when getting our stroller and groceries that were waiting for us and he told me he couldn't accept and to give it to kid that ran and got our stroller. He was the internal shuttle driver at Carribean beach.

Hmmmm. Maybe it's CBR that doesn't allow bell service tips.

 

[bumbershoot]

As was just said, housekeeping isn't actually a position that is tippable, per WDW. Whether or not we do it is one thing, but if a housekeeper read their postion's description they would never expect a tip.

 

[philharmagic fan]

Most Disney bell staff we have dealt with have accepted tips, but on one trip the young man said he was part of the college program and couldn't accept them. Sometimes (I think at WL, for example) they pool the tips - we've seen them put into a large container at the outside bell stand.

 

[walker0829]

When I left our rental stroller with the bell service last year I gave the gentleman $5 and he took it just fine. I was checking out and wanted to ensure the stroller was put up properly for pickup!

 

[gschon]

The most important tip of the whole vacation, in my opinion, is the sky cap.

 

[walker0829]

The most important tip of the whole vacation, in my opinion, is the sky cap.

Good call.

 

[Music City Mama]

Hello all - I noticed on my last trip that there is a different person that picks up my bags from my room from the person that puts my luggage in my vehicle. Do you tip both people? The first person? The last person? If both, how much to each person? Thanks!

This is a good question and one I think about every time we stay at a deluxe resort (or Swan and Dolphin) because we drive. When we arrive, there is someone getting our bags out of our car and putting them on the cart, although, DH and I help them the whole time. Then they bring it to the bell stand and a different person takes you to your room and unloads your bags. Same thing happens in reverse when you're leaving. I've just settled into the routine of giving the person loading/unloading the car $10 and the person taking us to/from the room $15. Sometimes I tip more to the person dropping us off in our room if they're really talkative about amenities, etc. I feel bad like I'm not giving enough, but it puts us in awkward position of having to tip twice especially when we definitely help with the car unloading/loading. I'd rather just have one person and give him $20, but alas, it doesn't work that way. One good thing about staying at a moderate when you drive is not having to worry about that.

 

[loves to dive]

I usually have my car valet parked so somethings there are two people involved, sometimes the guy taking the bags out of the car is the parking it. I used to tip both guys but now I usually tip the guy getting the bags out of the car, I just hand him a $5 unless I have an excessive amount of bags then I tip $1/bag. I tip the bell services guy who delivers the bag to the room $5, again unless I have an excessive amount of bags then it's $1/bag. Reverse, I tip the guy who takes my bag from the room same amount as before, most of the time I don't need anyone to come to my room, I just wheel the things out myself and I tip the guy who brings my car up $5, unless I've called ahead and it's already sitting there, then I don't know who brought it up and whoever loads it gets $5. Sometimes I tip mousekeeping, sometimes not, it's just according to how well they did my room so no tip is left the first morning and if I come back and it's good and clean, a tip is left for the next morning. I'm guessing not the same person cleans it every day but I don't know for sure. I've always assumed all the valet, bell services people pooled their tips, not sure about mousekeeping.