Tipping for maid service

[lookitsmikel]

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That always amazes me. Give someone $2-$10 for pushing a cart with your luggage to an elevator and into your room is OK but tipping someone who picks up your dirty towels, cleans your toilet, etc. Not OK???

...Oh I know... I dont understand it myself... I think this is one of those things that goes waaaay back in time... all I can say about it is, dont feel like you HAVE to give bellmen a large tip. Our bellmen can make $200-$300/day just in tips, so they make plenty! (but on the flipside, they also have to work their way up to bellmen, and have to provide our guests outstanding service for years before they even get the option to take that position)...

But this is getting completely off topic, lol...

 

[JoanneNC]

This is the trouble I have with tipping the maid:

I see most of you leaving a tip in an envelope in the room while you go out to the parks. So are you 1) leaving a tip for the service your received the previous day, OR 2) tipping the maid that is doing today's service?

If it is option 1, then how do you know the same maid came today as did yesterday?

If it is option 2, then how can you tip before you know whether or not they did a good job at all?

I mean it is a tip for providing good service, not just a random gift just because you, meaning the maid, came into my room.

Exactly why the entire logic is flawed. I am sorry but I have never tipped my waitress before I sat down to my table
So you are expressing your gratitude for great service that you haven't received yet. And after 2-3 days of not getting that great service you umm "punish" them by stopping the tips - but hey - its now a new maid and she doesn't get the preemptive tip because the lady that worked 2-3 days before her was sub par and you are no longer finding value in your tips. But she still does her outstanding job and you come back to a beautiful room, much to your satisfaction that your withholding of the tip actually worked. Guess what you do, you leave an even bigger tip the next day as a THANK YOU. Now the joke is back on you cause your 1st sub par mousekeeper is now back from her day off and once again you rewarded her below standard cleaning..


If you really want to tip YOUR housekeeper for doing a great job - then I would recommend AFTER you see their work, simple go to the front desk and seek out management and commend her performance to their manager. In this job loss economy - the value of compliments to their manager will be more valuable then $2-3

 

[JoanneNC]

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Now our bellstaff, that is a completely different matter... But I wont go there...

That always amazes me. Give someone $2-$10 for pushing a cart with your luggage to an elevator and into your room is OK but tipping someone who picks up your dirty towels, cleans your toilet, etc. Not OK??? [/QUOTE]

So you would tip the nurse that takes care of you in the hospital like help you to the bathroom, change a bedpan, etc or the cleaning staff that just mopped your floor in that same hospital room and took our your trash and your bed sheets? It's very difficult to know where to draw the line

See tipping has become expected and that sense of entitlement is an American downfall.

Or like another poster stated, their amount of tips has decreased because their income has decreased and while that logically makes sense on this side - to the mousekeeper, did she do less of a job because you have less income? It can't go both ways.

 

[Rebelmom67]

I've never heard of it. I've also never heard of a maid going home early and gettting paid for it. I don't know about Disney, but in a lot of places maids are worked part time, just at not quite enough hours for fulltime benefits (such as health care).

So let's see, a single mom with 2 kids working 30 hours a week for $12 per hour (and hoping to work her way up to that $12.54 some day - a girl's gotta dream!)...wow, that's a wopping $360 a week! Woohoo - save your tip money folks, that's ROLLING in the dough!

I hope you tip all those single mothers working at McDonalds, Wal Mart, Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. who make less than $12 an hour....

 

[klmorg]

I never even heard of tipping housekeeping until coming here.....
We did tip when we were at the AKL because we were blessed with animals so I felt that deserved an above and beyond attention and then our DS was sick and she was great and unfortunately had to clean a mess outside of our room. So again, above and beyond was given.

The Cabins - I felt they JUST did their job. Nothing was above and beyond so they were paid by their employer via my room charge.

We stayed at the cabins a few years ago and had some of THE BEST mousekeeping we ever did. Not only did we get superb cleaning...but the cutest towel animals AND all of my daughters stuffed animals were all arranged adorably on her bed when we got back from the parks...we stayed for 7 nights and every night this was what we recieved!!! We did tip...but not until the second day....once we saw how above and beyond mousekeeping had gone.....we tipped $5 per day after that.

Maybe instead of cash we could all make hand-made cards as our thank you's. If its good enough for a teacher, it should be good enough for anyone else!!

We do make hand decorated envelopes for our tips!! The kids draw pictures on them and we use stickers too!

Well, back in January we stayed at the GF for the first time and brought cash for the sole purpose of tip money, primarily for our housekeeper. We tipped for the first 3 days and noticed that things were not being done a on daily basis...trash not taken out one day, never the right number of towels every day, taking out our robes and not replacing them. We certainly were not getting "above average" service...below average in our opinion.

We left notes for the housekeepers letting them know what we needed/wanted with our tips...but they were ignored (but the money was gone). We brought it up with the front desk and they handled the situation by crediting our account $100. That was more than satisfactory for us. We asked about the tipping question (perhaps feeling that we may have been slighted for not tipping enough). They told us very clearly that tipping a housekeeper is NOT expected. You may tip for exceptional service but daily tips for housekeepers are not expected or required.

Eric

Nice to know...thanks

Exactly why the entire logic is flawed. I am sorry but I have never tipped my waitress before I sat down to my table
If you really want to tip YOUR housekeeper for doing a great job - then I would recommend AFTER you see their work, simple go to the front desk and seek out management and commend her performance to their manager. In this job loss economy - the value of compliments to their manager will be more valuable then $2-3

I never thought of this route...my only concern would be that the compliment or the tip I left for the mousekeeper may not make it back to them. We usually just start leaving tips on the second morning we leave the room. We tip about $5 on average.

 

[DISgirl82]

We left a few dollars everyday until one day we didn't get a towel animal, then we stopped.

 

[JoanneNC]

We left a few dollars everyday until one day we didn't get a towel animal, then we stopped.

So you ONLY tip maids at WDW since no other hotel chain will give you towel animals as part of their clean up?

 

[arrdee11462]

So you would tip the nurse that takes care of you in the hospital like help you to the bathroom, change a bedpan, etc or the cleaning staff that just mopped your floor in that same hospital room and took our your trash and your bed sheets? It's very difficult to know where to draw the line

See tipping has become expected and that sense of entitlement is an American downfall.


Actually yes, when my mother spent two weeks in the hospital over christmas I did "tip" the nurses. We brought Thank you gifts to the Nurses, the Cleaning staff anyone that worked with her. It was the least we could do to say Thanks....


"If you really want to tip YOUR housekeeper for doing a great job - then I would recommend AFTER you see their work, simple go to the front desk and seek out management and commend her performance to their manager. In this job loss economy - the value of compliments to their manager will be more valuable then $2-3"

??? Umm we are leaving a tip for them the morning after we check in. That is After you see their work, you did see the room on check-in, someone cleaned that room for your arrival. If someone does not pick up your dirty stuff, clean your toilet and make your bed then fine, complain and no tip but otherwise -

They are doing a service I don't want to do on my vacation so I am all for tipping, each day, enough that says Thanks.

 

[kcashner]

Disney takes guest feedback very seriously and uses it to determine promotions/raises, etc. Therefore, if any CM in any position does an exceptional job, I make a point to write a letter to WDW Guest Services after I return home and name the CM (along with date and location).

Obviously, if a mousekeeper has done a superior job, notifying the manager at the desk is a good start.

To answer the original question--at a DVC resort, I do not tip for trash/towel service. I do put all the dirty towels in one cluster on the bathroom floor. As another poster stated, I don't expect this service to take more than 10 minutes.

 

[Aliceacc]

I'm not worried about logic or towel animals.

If we can swing the price of a vacation in Disney World, I'm more than happy to be a bit generous to the housekeepers, the bellhops and anyone else I deem appropriate.

Last year we tipped daily, $1-$2 per person, in envelopes I had made up during the months preceeding the trip. I had a stockpile of the envelopes, and just took one out each day before leaving the room.

We had no special requests... all we wanted was the room cleaned and fresh towels to replace the ones we had used. We got that each day. I guess we're pretty low maintainence; I can't imagine what else we would need. The occasional towel animal was a treat.

In fact, at the end of last year's stay my husband commented that if we ever returned, we would have to be sure to bring more singles so we could tip more often and more generously.

I love the guy!

 

[Rebelmom67]

I loved my bell services guy. He looked JUST like the guy on cashcab. He got a 10 dollar tip for picking up and a 10 buck tip for delivering. I'm bad...

 

[goofy4prez]

As I posted yesterday. This is going to get hot and heated about tipping. Yep it sure did. Now off to the other heated thread about value or deluxe resorts.

 

[arielchickenofthesea]

Housekeeping is a non-tipped position. Tipping is not necessary for normal service. However, if you have special requests or leave a big mess, they appreciate the extra cash.

Will you be staying on points or on cash through CRO? If on points, they will only come to your room once every four days.

I think it rude to not tip a maid. If you leave a messy room/s, you SHOULD tip. We always leave at least 5.00 for the two of us and the maids are always so grateful. WE get litttle special things, like towel animals and extra soaps and things.

In my opinion, it is rude not to a maid who cleans up after you and your family. It always HAS been a tipping position. I have no idea where the thought that it is a non-tipping position came about. Every hotel I have stayed at, we tip.

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if you are staying DVC, then I do not know. Do you clean up your own place like you do at home? If so, then I guess you don't tip, BUT if youhave a maid come in clean up after you and your family thgen a tip is called for. If the maid takes away your dirty towels and gives you clean ones and changes
your bedding to fresh bedding and vacuums up the whole place, why would you not tip someone who does this? They are doing a service for you. If you request NOT to have a maid, then I can see no tipping, even if they come. But in general, when a maid cleans up YOUR messy room, you tip her.

 

[Lynne M]

Since this is a three year old thread that's risen from the dead, I'm going to whack it over the head and send it to its final resting place.