My brother is thinking of cruising concierege. So, will he be getting envelopes for their tips too? I'm confused. I'm Miss
DCL to them and I want to be able to tell them. (The Fantasy) Otherwise, his wife will claim "no clue". I'll keep my name calling to myself ...lol but you get the idea.
On the night you get the vouchers for everyone else, you get another page that you note what you want to tip concierge (if any...it's definitely optional). Fill it out, you have an envelope for them as well, track them down, give them the envelope.
I don't mean to offend anyone, it's just an honest question but I'm not understanding the debate about tips. I have always tipped for any service I have received and that is the norm. So I am honestly confused why tipping is such an issue? If I go out to eat, I leave a tip, get my hair done , leave a tip etc...so if you book a cruise you know tipping is part of the deal so I'm just honestly asking why it is even in question?
First, not everyone is raised in a family that KNOWS about tipping, or is ever in a position TO tip. Not everyone goes to salons; I had my hair cut at home for years. Then I went to Supercuts, then back to my mom b/c she cut hair better than anyone else in the world (she learned-by-watching in San Francisco at the Sassoon teaching salon, while getting her own hair cut for free by students). We never went to nice restaurants. The number of tips left by my mom for things was minimal, because we simply didn't get a lot of experiences where you leave a tip. My mom did know about tipping, as she was raised in a well-off family, but her own life went a different way. Thankfully, later on she remarried and also got a much better job, and our lifestyle went up a bit. My stepdad was always well off, and therefore my brother and I were able to see a different sort of lifestyle than we had first grown up in.
Anyway, long story short, not everyone knows.
And then with concierge there is absolutely no guidance. How do they split the tips? If I handed my tip envelope to Wensdae, does she get the tips, or did she split between the other two onboard? Who knows? I assume it's split, but no one is telling us. Is a good way of tipping per day? Per person? If we ask for a lot from them? If we don't? etc etc. Is just their presence worth a tip?
If they brought down their salary once they realized people were tipping, then they should give us guidance.
I tipped them far better than my husband was happy with (and he's usually the tip guy while I despise the practice on principle!), though less than some, simply because we barely used them. If I'd asked them for more, we would have tipped them more. If the one thing I thought I asked them for help with had actually been done, I would have tipped them more. (I'm still confused why they didn't take care of that one thing for me) But as it was we tipped what I felt was nicely, and what DH thought was excessive.
It would be lovely to have guidance.
So I'm not sure there's an *issue*, it's just helping one another have knowledge.
I was informed, that concierge is not a salaried position.
By whom? While I feel OK believing that they've *reduced* the salary, it's hard to believe they have NO salary, when tipping them is totally optional.