Mousekeeping ?

[SHAYMARAYSMOM]

Okay DH and I are leaving on Monday for my happy place
We have the envolpes ready except the money. I am thinking 5.00 dollars a day is around the norm. Willing to do more for somone else to pick up after DH for a week . DH said I should let everyone know that I clean the room and bathroom my self anyways. (I do it before the housekeeper comes to our house everyweek also) I do not want to seem cheap. So any and all input is welcomed.
Thanks
Kellie

 

[autumnbaby9]

Most people do $1 pp a day. Extra if the room is really messy.

 

[Jrabbit910]

I too usually tip a dollar per person per day... I too clean alot of whatever mess is left (bathroom, garbage etc... ).

 

[noahdove]

I figure the same as autumnbaby9. I feel terrible as the first time I stayed I didn't leave any..I also pick up stuff before I leave the room...I however don't make the bed, it's the once "luxary" I have while I am there

 

[LoriZH]

I'm CONSTANTLY cleaning up before mousekeeping and my DH tells me i'm insane and should leave the tip for myself, lol I even empty the trash!

Five bucks a day is all we give too (family of 5), have fun I'm quite jealous, I have been depressed since the day I arrived home on my birthday, lol.

 

[kirbsam]

just to be clear, i would say most people in the general population do not tip mousekeeping. i would say, maybe half on the dis do. so whatever you give will be appreciated. you wont be thought of as cheap. most threads i have seen recommend 2 bucks per person per day.

 

[Marshypooh]

At other hotels I tip $2 per day, but at Disney I tip $5 per day for a family of 4. We don't make the beds or empty the trash because that is one of the "luxuries" you pay for while on vacation. We are a very neat and tidy family so our room is never messy. I do like to keep our personal items in the bathroom organized and every morning make sure all the dirty towels are thrown in the bathtub before we leave the room. I'm tipping not only for the cleanliness of the room, but for little things like leaving extra towels or soap. The main reason I tip more at Disney is because of the special things the Mousekeepers do, like making towel animals or all those cute little things they do with our stuffed animals. I also like how the housekeeping staff greet me with "good morning" and a smile when I pass them in the hallway. I rarely receive that at other hotels.

 

[onehotdisneymama]

Our family tips $1 per person per day also. We will leave extra if something extra is needed or done. Mousekeeping has always been great to us no matter what hotel we have stayed in.

 

[Hopefully]

I tip $5 per day. We are a family of 3 adults and I too pick up and make everything tidy before we leave the room. I can not believe how some people "trash" the rooms they stay in in a hotel.

 

[DisGal520]

Someone told me the other day that they leave the 'daily tip' each day. We have always left one total tip at the last morning of the stay. Is that how you leave your tips?



DisGal

 

[PrincessDez]

Someone told me the other day that they leave the 'daily tip' each day. We have always left one total tip at the last morning of the stay. Is that how you leave your tips?



DisGal

I read in Conde Nast Traveler that you should tip each day. That way the actual person who cleans your room gets the tip. For example, if you are staying Monday-Saturday and Mary cleans your room Monday-Thursday and does a great job, but has Friday and Saturday off, then the person who cleans your room on Friday and Saturday would get a large tip for 2 days of work and Mary wouldn't get anything.
Hope that makes sense............
I am sure any tip left is appreciated. I wish I got tips for my job! But for some reason my kids never do.................
Anyhow, have a FANTASTIC trip!

 

[bookgirl2632]

It was me and my sister in a room last year (we had two rooms for our entire party). We tipped $3 a day. We also left it every day so that the proper person would get it. I never met our Mousekeeper, but she did a great job and even left a couple towel animals, even though we were clearly two adult women.

 

[nurse.darcy]

I often travel for business reasons. I always leave $5 per day when I am by myself. When traveling with my son I do the same. Sometimes the dollar per person per day is not justified (not enough). Remember folks that these people are required to share a percentage of tips but not the entire tip. Most often they do not report the tip so tipping daily is better than waiting till the end of the stay. That way the person that actually does the work gets the money. I like the $5 rule. It seems reasonable.

 

[suzimar57]

we do $5 a day (for DH and myself)

we're very tidy - no extra messes to clean up

if i ask for a cleaned comforter, i'll make it $10 that day

 

[SonicGuy]

On our stay at the Poly last month I tipped $5 per day. The nice part was about half way through our trip our Mousekeeper stopped us in the hallway and in her limited English thanked us profusely for the tip we had been leaving every day.

It was nice to know that it was appreciated - and not just expected!

 

[labattblue]

The only problem I have with tipping hotel housekeeping is that if you "daily tip", you are tipping for future services which you don't know will be good or bad. If you "weekly tip", you are giving it all to one housekeeper unless they are forced to pool all tips.

 

[Mouse511]

DH and I tip $5.00 a day. I'm not sure if the tip had anything to do with it but our housekeeper left us a towel animal everyday.

 

[npmommie]

I have always left a tip at the end of our stay at any hotel we have been to. hmm. i never thought about the daily tips, it makes sense though.
so where do you leave the envelopes so they know its for them? do you label it for mousekeeping?
I am going to do this on this upcoming trip.

 

[ruddj]

We always leave a daily tip and make mouskeeping envelopes before going to Disney.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1138487

Here is a link to the mousekeeping envelopes thread that some of the DISigners have made