Tip once, tip twice, tip three times?

[PalVal]

How many times would you tip for the following situation:
We will be arriving by towncar to BWV
Arrival
$10 to driver
Bellman pulls luggage from car and brings to storage - $ ____per bag?
Bellman pulls grocery bags from car and brings to storage $ ____per bag?

Another Bellman brings luggage and groceries to room - $ ____per bag?

(Even if your room is ready it seems like they store your luggage so you have to tip two different bellman)

Access luggage during the day before your room is ready $ ____per bag?



Departure
Bellman pulls luggage from room and brings to storage -$ ____per bag?

Bellman pulls luggage from storage for your departure $ ____per bag?

Does everyone tip twice upon arrival and departure?

 

[susannebraska]

who knows? hope you get some answers. I usually figure a dollar a bag and split it between the guy who unloads and the guy who delivers...but then we usually have 10 or more bags so it adds up to a nice tip (I hope) either way.

 

[Brian Noble]

In general, for baggage handling, you tip at the point your bags end up wherever they are going. So, when you drop off a bag at the bell desk for storage, and later retrieve it/have it delivered, you tip at retrieval/delivery, not drop-off. If the bell staff is giving you extra help at drop off (getting bags from your car or coming to your room to pick them up, rather than you just taking them to the bell stand) then I tend to tip at that point as well.

For retrieval at the stand or getting them from the car, I tip $1-$2 per bag---more per bag for fewer bags. For delivery to or pick up from my room, it's more like $2-$3.

 

[DenLo]

We didn't know either, but saw it posted that you pay when you receive your luggage at your room or when leaving at your car. We paid $1 per item and $2 for the large suitcase(s) or anything really heavy. One problem traveling by car is that you have lots of little bags and boxes.

 

[disneynutz]

(Even if your room is ready it seems like they store your luggage so you have to tip two different bellman)

That's because the car person doesn't work for Disney, they work for Bags Inc and they pass the luggage off to the Disney Bell-person via the storage room.

Bill

 

[Dean]

The industry standard is to tip at the final destination and to let the interim people along the way work out a "sharing" arrangement. They may actually share tips or alternate trips. I don't know how they do it with different groups and employers at Disney, and I really don't care, it's their problem to iron out. As for amount, it really depends on how many bags and how their set up. Generally I'd look at $2 a bag with a $5 min for luggage but not for every plastic publix bag. Just look at the various etiquette sources on the internet to get a framework then look at what you end up with for specifics. Same for valet, the industry standard is to tip on pick up, same tip sharing expectations.

 

[JimC]

I use the following:

Town Car Driver: Tip about 20% of total if not already in fare. If you book a round-trip car service, tip half (10%) of full tip each way in case you get a different return driver. If driver carries your luggage from baggage claim add $1/bag.

Bell Services: $1/carry-on bag; $2 for anything larger or heavy; the greater of $5 or $1/bag for groceries; all when the luggage is delivered to the room. Upon departure reverse the procedure.

 

[vellamint]

Well....I Certainly have been overly tipping and am soooo happy to have found this thread.

 

[NewDCLGuy]

The industry standard is to tip at the final destination and to let the interim people along the way work out a "sharing" arrangement.

Exactly. I consider myself a reasonably generous tipper. But I draw the line at tipping when dropping stuff off. Not gonna do it. I tip when I get my stuff - be in bags in my room or a car from the valet. It's up to them to worry about how to split divvy things up fairly.

 

[Dean]

Exactly. I consider myself a reasonably generous tipper. But I draw the line at tipping when dropping stuff off. Not gonna do it. I tip when I get my stuff - be in bags in my room or a car from the valet. It's up to them to worry about how to split divvy things up fairly.

Certainly the standards are a guide and there are times where it is appropriate to do more (or less) depending on circumstances. My concern with tipping when not usual is that over time that will become the norm and more and more costs will be shifted directly to the consumer and away from the company. We've already seen this with restaurants where the usual has increased from 15% to 18-20%, before you know it tipping for counter service will become standard, etc.

 

[Dizny Dad]

I'm on vacation or business; the person rendering service is "at the office". Tip as if you were on the receiving end. If it felt good, the amount was right.

But I tip generously so when I great the person next time, they are pleased to see me. Because by then, I may have run out of money!