Cash/Tipping

[Iowamomof4]

If you leave bags with bell services (like on the day you check out, you leave your carryons with bell services while you head to a park) do you tip when you leave the bags AND when you pick them up?

 

[21stamps]

Bell services is not DME. If you hand your bags to to bell services or if you switch resorts they typically won't take your bags to your room without you being in the room. If you used the yellow tags and didn't grab your bags yourself at the airport DME should have placed them in your room for you.

We used DME, we went to the parks after arrival. Left our carry on bags with bell services and I'm assuming DME did the same since our room wasn't ready. Maybe bell services brought the bags we dropped off ourselves. Not sure on that. But I know that it was midnight when we got them, and I was told the reason was- we had to be physically in the room.

 

[21stamps]

At a moderate, the only "officially" tipped position (meaning that wages are sub-minimum because tips are expected) would be bell services. Generally, $1-2 per bag for anyone who handles your luggage.

Some guests choose to tip their housekeeper $1-2 per person in the room, per day. If you do tip housekeeping, do it each day, as you may well have a different housekeeper every day. The problem with tipping a lump sum at the end of your stay is that you may be giving the tip to a housekeeper who never cleaned your room during your stay.

Disney transportation drivers are not tipped.

As a rule, I usually try and tip anyone that A) I know relies on tips on some level...or.... B) where a tip may positively effect the service delivery .......Like the guy at an open bar where there are signs that say no tipping (back in my drinking days)....a well placed $20 could make all the difference for the rest of the night

What about a VIP tour? I am reading so many contradicting reports on this.
The woman at VIP services said tips are not accepted. The email says 'gratuities not accepted'.
But it seems like this would be a place to tip! And I've read other people have tipped.
I really would like to know..bc if so..is it 20%? It's something that I would like to plan for obviously lol.

 

[Kevin355]

$5-10 for DME, $5 daily housekeeping, and if my bags are brought to my room when we are there, we give $5. We never have more than 2 bags anyway.

 

[gmboy95]

What about a VIP tour? I am reading so many contradicting reports on this.
The woman at VIP services said tips are not accepted. The email says 'gratuities not accepted'.
But it seems like this would be a place to tip! And I've read other people have tipped.
I really would like to know..bc if so..is it 20%? It's something that I would like to plan for obviously lol.

for me on this....if they say they don't accept tips....a nice $20 spot for $10 spot wouldn't be the worst thing in the world

 

[gmboy95]

as far as anyone handling my luggage to my room....a buck a bag

 

[21stamps]

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[21stamps]

for me on this....if they say they don't accept tips....a nice $20 spot for $10 spot wouldn't be the worst thing in the world

That's what I'm saying.. Is it rude to offer them like $100 or less...or is it supposed to be 20%...which would be more than 6 times that. BIG difference when planning...and deciding if want to do the tour!

 

[Enna]

If you are going to Harmony Barber Shop, tips there need to be in cash.

Also, it used to be that we needed cash to buy balloons in MK. Not sure if they accept magic bands now.

 

[Sue M]

I would tip the Magical express driver 2 or 3 dollars, and give a tip to housekeeping for about 6-10 dollars. At the end of your stay that is.

The reason most people tip daily is you may not get the same person cleaning your room every day, and possibly the person who did clean your room during your stay is off the day you leave, and a new person who is just starting his/her shift comes on and gets entire tip. For this reason it's better to tip every day instead of one big tip at end.

 

[Sue M]

If you leave bags with bell services (like on the day you check out, you leave your carryons with bell services while you head to a park) do you tip when you leave the bags AND when you pick them up?

I'd like to know this too. At Bell service you check bags in with one person, then another person delivers them to your room. Do you tip both? It is a bit confusing. I never know what I'm supposed to do.

 

[Nancyg56]

I'd like to know this too. At Bell service you check bags in with one person, then another person delivers them to your room. Do you tip both? It is a bit confusing. I never know what I'm supposed to do.[/

I do. Anyone who handles my bags gets a tip.

 

[maxiesmom]

We used DME, we went to the parks after arrival. Left our carry on bags with bell services and I'm assuming DME did the same since our room wasn't ready. Maybe bell services brought the bags we dropped off ourselves. Not sure on that. But I know that it was midnight when we got them, and I was told the reason was- we had to be physically in the room.

Whoever told you that was wrong. DME will, and always has, deliver bags to a room without you having to be in the room. If you give the resort bags they will not (typically) deliver them without you being in the room. The only time I have had them bring bags I left with bell services was last year at the Pop. And it shocked me that they brought everything up. It was very nice, but totally unexpected.

 

[loves to dive]

I'd like to know this too. At Bell service you check bags in with one person, then another person delivers them to your room. Do you tip both? It is a bit confusing. I never know what I'm supposed to do.

I usually tip the person a BS who takes my bags from the car and then tip the person who brings them up to the room since they are not the same person. I tip a dollar a bag unless I only have one bag then I usually had them between 3 and 5. The only time I haven't tipped BS is when I was saying at Swan, instead of leaving them in the car, which I normally would have done, when I checked in I brought them in with me since I was expecting my room to be ready. It was not so we handed them off to BS at the BS stand. We had brought them from the parking lot into the hotel ourselves and took them over to the bell desk. When we finally got our room later in the day, again they were just brought up to the BS desk and we took them to our rooms so we didn't tip.

 

[21stamps]

Whoever told you that was wrong. DME will, and always has, deliver bags to a room without you having to be in the room. If you give the resort bags they will not (typically) deliver them without you being in the room. The only time I have had them bring bags I left with bell services was last year at the Pop. And it shocked me that they brought everything up. It was very nice, but totally unexpected.

We were at the Poly. It may have only been our carry on bags- this part I don't remember. If they can be already in the room next time it will make things a lot easier!

 

[BobWerner]

I normally tip The Mousekeepers $5 a day. Table service I'm at 20%. These folks IMHO work hard and I don't mind compensating them as I don't travel to WDW that often.
BTW> If you run out of dollar bills and since most ATMs only deliver 20s could you get some from the front desk?

 

[21stamps]

I normally tip The Mousekeepers $5 a day. Table service I'm at 20%. These folks IMHO work hard and I don't mind compensating them as I don't travel to WDW that often.
BTW> If you run out of dollar bills and since most ATMs only deliver 20s could you get some from the front desk?

I feel guilty now bc I tipped mousekeeping at the end, we left a note as well. We had cute towel animals on several days.. I didn't realize there were multiple people. I always tip housekeeping in an envelope on check out day whenever I'm at a hotel.

 

[WDWNY]

If you leave bags with bell services (like on the day you check out, you leave your carryons with bell services while you head to a park) do you tip when you leave the bags AND when you pick them up?

We do. However, our last trip the person who we left the bags with said he couldn't accept the tip. The person who was there when we picked up took the tip though.

 

[mistole]

I used to always think the person at the bank thought I was headed off to the strip club when I would roll in to get my $50 all in $1 bills!!

Yeah, I think I looked a little odd at the bank this morning getting $60 worth of $5's and $1's, plus 4 rolls of pennies. We want to do lots of the penny stamping, and I want shiny pennies so I knew I would have to sort through a lot to find what I want!

 

[bryanb]

Do we know if they formally pool their tips at Disney? In some places of work (hotels, bars, restaurants), there is formal pooling of gratuities. This acknowledges that it took a whole team in order to serve the guest, and evens out the unfairness. Such as when someone happens to order a very expensive bottle of wine at one table and puts in a 20% tip, whereas the waiter at the next table had to work just as hard pouring free refills of ice water. Or when housekeepers spend all week cleaning but only get tipped at the end.