hotel tipping

[DisneyXiao]

we're going to be staying at the Carousell from Dec.4th untill the 11th. I was wondering how much for a tip do people usually leave for the maid.

 

[skiingfast]

I was wondering how much for a tip do people usually leave for the maid.

The answer is $0, from 1 star to 5 star hotels.

If you want to tip that is fine, but not a custom.

These threads usually attracts people who boast about being great tippers, and those who rationalize why housekeeping deserves tips.

 

[sonnyjane]

The answer is $0, from 1 star to 5 star hotels.

If you want to tip that is fine, but not a custom.

These threads usually attracts people who boast about being great tippers, and those who rationalize why housekeeping deserves tips.

Hahah I just answered your post in the other section and also mentioned that these threads can get out of control. I do tip, but skiingfast is correct that you don't have to if you don't like. More and more I am coming to not use housekeeping throughout my stays, just by preference, and then I'll leave a small tip at the end of my stay.

 

[princesszelda]

Nothing. If we have great service above and beyond we will leave a tip at the end of our stay.

 

[3Minnies1Mickey]

Nothing. If we have great service above and beyond we will leave a tip at the end of our stay.

Same here. Unfortunately I've yet to get above and beyond.

 

[Astylla]

There is no right or wrong answer here. Working in the hotel industry I see it from both sides. Do what you feel is best , but you should never feel obligated for any reason to tip.

 

[DisneyXiao]

Thanks guys.

 

[Malcon10t]

We stay at the Residence Inn, and generally get above and beyond service in our room. I generally tip an average of $5 a day there. At the Carousel, we usually tipped about $3 a day. I don't leave it on the last day because you may have different housekeepers in a stay.

 

[larina]

For those who do tip, the custom is often to leave $1 per person per day. With us, and other large parties/groups/families that would get out of hand (there are up to 8 of us, at least 6) quick. We do leave a couple of dollars a day, and I think we get better service (most of the time) and we always get a ton of towels (we request them, but still) and at PPH last May we got lots of extra supplies with ears.

 

[jemimabean]

Totally stupid question, but how do you let housekeeping know that it's a tip for them? Do you leave a note? If money was just left lying on a bed or dresser, I'd assume that they wouldn't presume it was for them and just take it.

 

[Hummingbird15]

We always leave $1. per person per day. More if housekeeping did something above and beyond for us.

 

[skiingfast]

Totally stupid question, but how do you let housekeeping know that it's a tip for them? Do you leave a note? If money was just left lying on a bed or dresser, I'd assume that they wouldn't presume it was for them and just take it.

Yes a note or envelope with housekeeping on it works well. You can also give it to the front desk.

I have a freind who preferred the second method, because she would not see a tip for days when she worked with certain other house keepers, and she assumed it was because they would pop into her rooms and take a tip if it was there. Granted there is no way she could proove this easily, but she reconized the pattern.

I should note that in my friend's hotel, if a tip was dropped off at the front desk and didn't include the day and room number, it went into a pool for all the housekeepers.

 

[Malcon10t]

Totally stupid question, but how do you let housekeeping know that it's a tip for them? Do you leave a note? If money was just left lying on a bed or dresser, I'd assume that they wouldn't presume it was for them and just take it.

I usually leave it with a "Thank you" note by the TV, or at the Residence Inn, on the fridge.

 

[disneychrista]

I have never left a tip and until these boards never knew that anyone did.

I think because of reading about on these boards a lot of people now tip because they think they are suppose to.

 

[GenGen22]

My MIL said we should be tipping also and I had never heard of it, but I have never really stayed in a fancy hotel before where she has so, I chalked it up to maybe it's because she stays in nicer places. But she can afford to as it is just her, we have 5 in our family and do what we can.. I appreciate this post and skiing fast's responses as it clears things up for me

 

[Malcon10t]

My MIL said we should be tipping also and I had never heard of it, but I have never really stayed in a fancy hotel before where she has so, I chalked it up to maybe it's because she stays in nicer places. But she can afford to as it is just her, we have 5 in our family and do what we can.. I appreciate this post and skiing fast's responses as it clears things up for me

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. My dad taught me to tip back then. It just continued on in my life. Even as a single mom of 4. I've taught my kids the same way.

 

[larina]

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. My dad taught me to tip back then. It just continued on in my life. Even as a single mom of 4. I've taught my kids the same way.

My mom taught me to tip. She was a single mom and we left a tip, even in the Motel 6. I get that it is someone's job, but I think that people who clean up after me, or serve me, or basically do something for me that I am completely capable of doing myself, should be tipped for doing it instead. I put it in their with food service, beauty treatments and the like. That is just me though.

Until I came to this board, I had never heard of not tipping in a hotel/motel. Just goes to show, we all have different thoughts on the matter.

 

[Susie63]

If I am staying one night in a hotel I do not tip. If I am staying multiple days I do tip $1 per person/per day.I leave it in the bathroom on the toiletry stand in an envelope that says mousekeeping. I do not leave my hotel room spotless when I leave for the day.If housekeeping has to work around my"mess",then I feel better if I tip.

 

[Mama Who]

Totally stupid question, but how do you let housekeeping know that it's a tip for them? Do you leave a note? If money was just left lying on a bed or dresser, I'd assume that they wouldn't presume it was for them and just take it.

We write "for the maid" or "for housekeeping" on a piece of paper and set the money next to it. We go with the $1 per person per day theory.

 

[blackjackdelta]

I leave $5 a day for mousekeeping in an envelope at the end of the stay. I did not tip at a place in Afghanistan it had a mortar shell hole in the wall and a cot.

Jack