Tipping?

[JPN4265]

We are staying at a resort for the first time in 2 weeks (Pop). What is the tipping policy for things when you stay there?
Thanks!!!

No right or wrong answer. Tip if you want, and tip what you want. For us tipping is only given for above and beyond service. If you just give standard/normal service, you will probably not get a tip. If you give below standard service, we talk to the management, if you give above average service you get a really nice tip. Very seldom do I get the opportunity to give a really nice tip. No one seems to want to earn it anymore, they just expect it.

 

[momma2kiddos]

I'm the same way. I give tips when warranted. When we stayed at WDW last year, we stayed for 7 days. Mousekeeping got tipped twice. Yes twice. When you leave a note requesting simple things like to change the sheets because the baby spit up all over them and you come back and pull the comforter back only to have the same sheets sitting there, um I'm not tipping. If towels are still laying in the corner (that's where we placed them so they wouldn't be spread all over the bathroom), again I'm not tipping! But average or above average deserves tipping I believe.

What I can say at Disney is if you're unhappy about anything, POLITELY complain to management and they will make it right.

 

[eyor44]

If you leave a tip for MouseKeeping, make sure you leave a note or something so they know it is for them. I have heard where people have left $$ on the table and Mousekeeping didn't take it. Of course, the day you check out they know it is for them. I always use the tipping envelopes that are found on the creative community thread. I use them for servers also.

 

[robeck]

I had this same question and emailed the IPO for an answer. Their answer ended like this...
It would only be appropriate to tip a server, valet, bell service or
housekeeping cast members.
My real question was about the other people that I'll encounter on my trip. What about the captain of the Breathless for our illuminations cruise? What about my spa treatment? The people who will be giving the aqua seas tour? The cast members who are on the Pirate cruise from the GF? People giving the Segway tour?
Yes I have alot scheduled next week.

 

[eyor44]

I had this same question and emailed the IPO for an answer. Their answer ended like this...
It would only be appropriate to tip a server, valet, bell service or
housekeeping cast members.
My real question was about the other people that I'll encounter on my trip. What about the captain of the Breathless for our illuminations cruise? What about my spa treatment? The people who will be giving the aqua seas tour? The cast members who are on the Pirate cruise from the GF? People giving the Segway tour?
Yes I have alot scheduled next week.

I have always followed the policy of tipping anyone who made my time extra special. Someone who went above and beyond doing their job. And, I have also found that not everyone will accept a tip. So, make it a point of filling out a comment card for where ever you are. The CMs get extra points for positive comment cards.

 

[CoralineM]

I always tip between 10% and 15% depending on how good the service was.

 

[livie1205]

Tip your Mousekeepers please.

$5 per person per day at the deluxe end, that's what my former employer reimbursed for, so it's what I leave at the same $/night rate inside WDW.

My sister worked her way through college at a hotel, I worked waiting tables. Changing your sheets is a hard job; it's physically demanding.

The people who make your vacation pleasant are paid with the assumption that you will tip. If you forget or refuse to tip, their budget is blown.

The way I see it, if I am blessed enough with material goods at this time to be able to afford a WDW hotel, I can certainly afford to tip the staff.

Of course we don't tip everyone who does anything for us anywhere--just the employees whose compensation is figured using the common expectation that customers of a luxury service will tip.

If I was a mousekeeper I would NOT make my budget by including tips...on this forum it may be the norm but alot of people do not...I ONLY tip the last day because we do not use housekeeping at all.We clean up most of our mess before we check out and remove the sheets and towels and put them in a pile.I leave a sm tip as a thank you for cleaning after we are gone. We carry our own bags except when we are doing CL then we tip a few dollars to the guy that takes us to our room.I tip 12% at buffet (15% if great service) and 18% at TS meals.There has only been a few times at wdw when we did not get great service though.

 

[stitchfan18]

Is there anyway to tip the bellmen who deliver your ME bags if you aren't in the room? We always tip when they pick up, but it's so nice to have the bags in the room when we get back from the parks or dinner the first night that I wish I could leave a tip!

 

[CanadianGuy]

I had this same question and emailed the IPO for an answer. Their answer ended like this...
It would only be appropriate to tip a server, valet, bell service or
housekeeping cast members.
My real question was about the other people that I'll encounter on my trip. What about the captain of the Breathless for our illuminations cruise? What about my spa treatment? The people who will be giving the aqua seas tour? The cast members who are on the Pirate cruise from the GF? People giving the Segway tour?
Yes I have alot scheduled next week.

I have always followed the policy of tipping anyone who made my time extra special. Someone who went above and beyond doing their job. And, I have also found that not everyone will accept a tip. So, make it a point of filling out a comment card for where ever you are. The CMs get extra points for positive comment cards.

Illuminations Cruise captains will take a tip.

I don't believe too many other positions will... but Im not 100% certain.

I personally know of situations where a guest tried to leave a gratuity for a CM and was politely refused. Certain positions are 'barred' from accepting a tip and for them - accepting could be termination.

I believe if I remember correctly, they are to refuse twice. The third time they can accept but must report and hand the tip over to their manager. Something like that.

I don't know what happens to it after that.

 

[Mickey country]

Tipping is definately a personal thing. For me, if you do something above and beyond your job duty for me, then I will reward you. I do not believe that just because you can afford to stay deluxe, or have scrapped and saved up the money, in my case that you should have to tip more than you would at any other Disney Resort. All housekeepers are to do the same job. $5 bucks per person per day is a bit much.

 

[DeniseinNS]

You know, this is going to come off wrong, but tough. 1st, it's not like a waitress where they make like $2/hour or something..

$2??? seriously?? that's crazy!!!! I'v been waitressing for 11 years and I coudln't imagine working for that wage. Mine wage here is like $8.50.

 

[rebster]

Yep, most servers (except in a couple of states), make about 2.35 an hour, and the rest of their lively hood is based on tips. I am not sure of any other position at Disney that is so heavily based on tips though.

 

[Burnt Toast]

And I tend to disagree all the sudden with this..

from

http://disney.go.com/DisneyCareers/wdwcareers/hourly/bellservices.html

Yup, that's for Dispatch Cast Members (who aren't tipped), they are the ones that stand at the Bell Desk and dispatch work orders to the Bellmen. The Bellmen themselves make your regular tipped-position hourly wage, which is well below minimum wage as they rely on tips to put them over minimum.

 

[Burnt Toast]

How about garbage men, mail, ups, person at lumber yard that helps you load and unload, person at works at any other place that helps you load or unload heavy items from your car?

Garbage men, mailmen, UPS drivers are NOT tipped positions and are paid a regular hourly wage (and probably paid WELL over minimum as two of those jobs are civil service jobs and all three are VERY labor-intensive). Those in usual tipped positions, like Valet/Bellmen/servers, are paid an hourly wage that is well below minimum wage as their tips are supposed to put them over the line.

Listen, it's okay to be cheap... but lets compare apples to apples when we make arguments, yah?

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

How about garbage men, mail, ups, person at lumber yard that helps you load and unload, person at works at any other place that helps you load or unload heavy items from your car?

Garbage men get beer throughout the year - when I have a ton of garbage. They get cash at Christmas.

ANYONE who loads/unloads heavy items from my car gets a tip - whether it is Home Depot, the bag kid at the grocery, Best Buy.

 

[robeck]

Illuminations Cruise captains will take a tip.

Thank you Canadian Guy for giving me an actual answer.

 

[CanadianGuy]

Thank you Canadian Guy for giving me an actual answer.

But surely you were concerned how much to tip your barber, grocery store manager and manicurist too?

It can get a little crazy around here. But what the heck.. keeps things interesting.

 

[jrt1176]

My family has always tipped well. I guess I grew up with it...

But, as I have gotten older and learned the value of money I'm more particular of how much I tip. I understand certain jobs are tipped, like servers, bell hops, etc.

I always tip, but the amount depends on the service. No longer to give a very good tip as the standard. A good tip should be earned through great service or effort.

If I'm in a cab and the driver doesn't make conversation or is on his phone the whole time, I won't leave a tip, etc.

Restaurant servers I always tip, as we owned restaurants when I was growing up. My family always gave 20%, but now I give less if the service isn't great. I'll always leave them a tip, but the size is up to them. I know if I worked at a job that was a tipping job, I would bust my butt to earn those tips. You never know who will give you a big tip or stiff you, so you have to go all out.

 

[Kay1]

$2??? seriously?? that's crazy!!!! I'v been waitressing for 11 years and I coudln't imagine working for that wage. Mine wage here is like $8.50.

That's just the way it works in the States. Servers really live off their tips, plus use them to pay the bartenders, food runners, bus help, etc.

 

[DeniseinNS]

Yep, most servers (except in a couple of states), make about 2.35 an hour, and the rest of their lively hood is based on tips. I am not sure of any other position at Disney that is so heavily based on tips though.

I can't get over that, crazy! Makes me glad to be Canadian and get a regular hourly wage lol.