Tipping Mousekeeping

[WickedWench]

they all work hard, so why tip mousekeepers and not all the other cms that work hard for us?

The same reason you tip waiters and taxi drivers. Housekeepers are supposed to be tipped. I agree with you on how tip jars are appearing in jobs that are not traditionally tipped. Housekeeping is not one of those positions. My parents tipped housekeeping at hotels back in the 1970s. It is not a part of this new tip jar trend.

 

[kimsuenew]

The last time we just tipped $20.00 the last day, however this time we are following what we now realize the majority of people on here do... tip $1.00 a day per person in the room, equalling $3.00 daily for us. I am making up envelopes for every day of our stay. If there are special touches in our room (such as towel animals or creative arrangement of toys) I have budgeted up to $5.00 daily and will leave the $5.00 then. We pick up our room daily and keep it clean so I think this is fair!

 

[kimsuenew]

We tip one dollar per person in the room every day. If it is a holidayeg:Valentine's we will bring a special treat and we also bring items unique to Canada for them.....and no we don't bring a bag of polar bear crap!

What a great idea!

 

[Rustysmom]

I never heard of NOT tipping until I started reading this board. We have always tipped at any other hotel we've gone to, but they left envelopes for that purpose.

 

[tiggersmyguy]

$5 per day for the 4 of us. I also tip the ME driver.

 

[stitchlover]

We didn't tip on our '06 trip because we didn't know it was the custom. We now tip between $4-$5 a day for the three of us. This next trip we are staying in a deluxe so I guess we will tip $5 a day.

 

[Applemomma]

We don't travel much so it never occured to me about tipping until I started studying the DIS Boards before we left.

We tipped at Pop $1 for each of us per day. We also tipped the shuttle driver who heaved our heavy bags around $1 per bag.

My girls made envelopes for our MouseKeeper, one per day and I used it to leave little notes like "Could you leave us a few extra towels for the pool? Thanks!". Worked like a charm. I'm glad we did it in advance and left it out either before getting ready for bed or leaving in the morning because we would have forgotten if we had just done it on the fly.

It was fairly obvious that we had at least two different Mouse Keepers for our one week stay just looking at the finishing touches that were done such as where the kids animals were or how the towels we laid out so I'm glad we tipped daily. We think we had one for the two days after we moved in (left us two towel animals!), then some one else for two days (no speacial touches at all but still did good job) and then we think the first one came back for the rest of the trip (animals were suddenly tucked in bed, toilet paper folded into shapes and a year's supply of shampoo left behind !!)

 

[pepe of ohio]

Nope, never do.

We have never tipped this position in all our years of traveling to where ever, to me it all started with the internet. Others saying the got this and that by tipping. We started going to Disney in 1977, no such thing as tipping the maids, along comes the 2000 and everyone is doing it, who will they think of next to tip, bus drivers, attraction CM's. No, I won't tip, its their job, you get no better service for leaving a tip and you shouldn't. What, if you don't tip they won't leave towels ? People think if they tip they get better service, towel animals, no they don't, some maids can do towel art, some do, its the luck of the draw. They do their job, receive a wage, thats it. I don't tip at Holiday Inn or Hamptons, so why shouldn't I not tip at WDW.

 

[WickedWench]

We started going to Disney in 1977, no such thing as tipping the maids,

Not true. People tipped in the 1970s. When I started reading on this board how people don't tip the housekeepers, I asked my dad. He looked at me like I was crazy. "Of course, we ALWAYS tipped," he told me. This is not a Disney specific thing, or a recent occurance. ALL hotel housekeepers are supposed to be tipped, and it's been that way as long as my dad's been alive (he's 74).

 

[mandysmom]

We always tip $5 a day for the 4 of us. My DD loves to decorate envelopes beforehand for this purpose. We keep the filled envelopes in the room safe, and just leave one out a day.

 

[eeyoresnr]

we also leave $5 per day...

 

[maxiesmom]

My vote is under "sometimes" even though I always try to tip. I did forget one day during my last vacation, and there was one day where the maid didn't take the tip. But I always try to tip!

 

[starwishing]

I just read through this thread & had to laugh!!!! Everyone who said that they leave a tip also said that they clean up their room!! So not only do you tip maid service.....you clean for them too!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW.....easy money!!! And I'm not making fun of anyone......I do the same thing, even making the bed each morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!