How do you leave a tip for housecleaning??

[nooneshome]

I see that some people tip the housecleaning staff. How do you leave the tip? Do you put a note on it designating it as a tip for them??

 

[Buzz & Woody]

I may get bashed for this-but why leave a tip? The mousekeepers are doing a job that they are getting paid for. I's sure that they get a decent wage. I don't tip, and have never received poor mousekeeping service

 

[lunabkat]

Yes, you can tell a mousekeeper by the fine jewelry and BMW he/she drives ...housekeepers, contrary to popular opinion, don't make a whole lot of money and the tips come in handy. A few dollars a day in an envelope would suffice, or you could leave an envelope with the total accrued at the end of your stay, but that would only pay the lucky one to clean your room that day - who probably will do the most work anyway, however.

 

[JenSop]

Wow, I had no idea there were people out there that didn't tip even a little bit. We always tip - it's pretty standard in the service industry. We usually leave a few dollars on the nightstand before we leave on the last day.

And this isn't Disney specific - you should tip housekeeping in ANY hotel you stay in.

 

[Safari Queen]

We stay DVC and generally have only one-two Mousekeeping visits, but we leave the tip folded inside the little card with the name of the Mousekeeper before we check out. In a hotel with daily service I leave it in plain sight. I've never had a maid touch money I've left out during my stay -- I often leave change on the desk -- so I tip at the end of the stay, leaving cash on the desk or table.

 

[mommytodarlings]

I had my kids make up little envelopes with Disney stickers and "Mousekeeping" on the front and left a few dollars each day.

We also brought a couple special "Canadian treats" to leave on a few days.

The kids had fun making them and thought it was special

 

[beattyfamily]

I make envelopes before my trip from THIS website. She even has holiday ones. It's a fun part of my pre-planning.

I like to tip daily and have the envelopes ready for my trip.

I leave them on the bathroom mirror. They are always taken.

OP didn't ask if she 'should' tip but asked 'how'.

 

[Dana49]

We always tip $3.00 a day for the two of us, plus we leave a "thank you" note. We have never had a problem when we need something extra from housekeeping. Being nice does have its perks.

 

[pumpkinfish]

I second leaving $3 per day for DH and myself. I figure DH and I get kinda messy when we leave out in a flash for the parks. I make up envelopes for each day like the ones posted on the site above. In fact, I just finished filling them today for our trip in 4 days. We keep them in the safe and leave one out each morning for our Mousekeeper

 

[PBader]

Those envelopes are a great idea. I always tip daily whenever we stay in a hotel.

 

[disneyjunkie]

I may get bashed for this-but why leave a tip? The mousekeepers are doing a job that they are getting paid for. I's sure that they get a decent wage. I don't tip, and have never received poor mousekeeping service

I leave a tip because I appreciate the job they do.

Here's another site that has cute tip envelopes.



http://www.themouseforless.com/downloads/trip/mousekeeping.shtml

 

[Jana49]

DH and I leave our tips in the Mousekeeping envelopes, too, and I've passed along the tradition to our grown kids.

 

[AutumnKlassic]

We go at Christmas and have a seperate stocking that says mousekeeping on it. We leave $5 a day for the two of us in the stocking. We had one mousekeeper that didn't speak english and had to show it to her but the rest of the time it was taken with no problem.

 

[Gizmo1951]

We also make up envelopes with Disney Characters on them before our trip.
We tip each day and the girls also write a little note on the envelopes.

Each day we have always gotten more towel animals which the girls are always excited about.
Not sure if it is due to the daily tipping but I am sure it doesnt hurt.

 

[Vickie46]

YES! We tip housekeeping and we tip Magical Express! A lot of people don't..

 

[suzimar57]

we leave a daily envelope pre-printed (at home) with mickey over the words "for the mousekeeper"

 

[tekoa]

We also leave a tip every day. Our rule of thumb is to leave $1.00 per person staying in the room per night.

 

[Jenniww]

We tip a dollar per day per person. Left daily in envelope mark mousekeeping tape to bathroom mirror.

 

[Sorsha]

The kids and I had great fun making our mousekeeping envelopes, and kind of used it as a "trip countdown". We get paid every two weeks, so we figured out how many nights we would be staying then counted back that number of paydays.

Each payday, we would go to the mouseforless site and the kids would pick out an envelope design. We printed it out, folded it up, and stuck a $5 bill in it, then sealed it closed with a Disney sticker. Finally, we put the finished envelope into our Passporter. By the time it was time to go, each day's pocket in the Passporter had a tip envelope in it, all ready to go.

Each morning, before we left the room, we set the tip out on the table; the envelopes are addressed "To Mousekeeping" and we would sign them from our family.

 

[daisy2]

We always tip. We make up business cards that has goofy and tinkerbell on them that say " For our Mousekeeper" and we lay it on the bed for them daily. We always get a return note back saying thank you.