To tip or not to tip............

[mommagoofof4]

We are staying at POP Century and was all set to tip mousekeeping while there until today. My mom was asking me why I tip there when I do not normally tip at hotels. I don't really have an answer other than I saw that a lot of people on here do tip..................So my question is, do you tip, if you do how much per day, and why?

 

[puffkin]

I always tip at hotels, not just Disney. I usually leave $2-$3 dollars a day.

 

[stefplus3]

I tip at all hotels as well. We're a family of 5 so the housekeeping staff always has their work cut out for them when we leave. Usually $3 a day.

 

[PixiePlanner]

We always tip when staying at hotels. DH worked for one for 15+ years and insists we tip. As a family of four, we tip about $4 a night... depends on what we have. When we went to WDW in June, we tipped $5 a night.

 

[CathrynRose]

I always tip at hotels.

$1 / pp - unless we're little piggies the evening before - then they get more.

 

[marlynnp]

Why don't you tip at other hotels???

I do at ALL hotels. Usually a $1pp/day but if I'm alone I'll tip $2day.

 

[Purseval]

If you happen to see housekeeping when you are checking in ask for some little favor like an extra bar of soap and tip them $5. Next day ask for a shampoo or something, repeat. Even if you never see them again you'll get treated like royalty for the rest of your stay.

 

[wmharley]

i generally don't tip as we don't make much of a mess, nor require extra work. We almost never, for a 3-4 day trip, remove the "no housekeeping" type signs off. We reuse the same towels, and make (roughly) our beds. If we make a mess, we pick it up. So rarely will housekeeping come in. I'm not going to tip for 3-4 days if they don't do anything.

i even throw the trash away in a common area trash too.

That said, longer trips and I might.

 

[rentayenta]

I always tip at hotels.

$1 / pp - unless we're little piggies the evening before - then they get more.

Ditto.




I could not imagine not tipping at a hotel.

 

[Judy in Texas]

Always tip and tip each day unless you leave out the "Do Not Disturb" sign because you don't want/need the beds made and the towels you have are sufficient. If you tip only on the last day, that person will get the entire amount. The people who cleaned the room on the other days get nothing. They are probably working for minimum wage and count on the few extra $$ they make in tips.

 

[wdwfan16]

I always tip at hotels.

 

[pixiewings71]

i generally don't tip as we don't make much of a mess, nor require extra work. We almost never, for a 3-4 day trip, remove the "no housekeeping" type signs off. We reuse the same towels, and make (roughly) our beds. If we make a mess, we pick it up. So rarely will housekeeping come in. I'm not going to tip for 3-4 days if they don't do anything.

i even throw the trash away in a common area trash too.

That said, longer trips and I might.

This is us, we rarely ask for anything, even cleaning. When we do have housekeeping come in we do leave a tip but otherwise we leave something on our last day and that's it.

 

[secretpantssam]

I tipped mousekeeping about $3 a day.

My parents were staying in the room next door and waited to tip $20 at the end, and we got a towel animal everyday, they didn't, and they put my mickey and minnie dolls in cute poses each day. So I would recommend tipping a little everyday instead of one big tip at the end.

 

[kahpets]

Add me to the list of those who always tip each day.

 

[ceecee]

Why don't you tip at other hotels???

I at ALL hotels. Usually a $1pp/day but if I'm alone I'll tip $2day.

 

[Phil'sFrontier]

Dumb Question

I am very new to this. How do you go about tipping them? Do you just leave the money? Give it directly to a person?

 

[Kies99]

Never tip at hotels, never will.

 

[princessmorgan]

I tip $5 a day for our family of 5 if they do a good job. If I feel like they are putting in some extra effort, then I tip, because I appreciate the extra effort. On our last trip however, they did not clean our room 4 days in a row, because we came back for a break during the afternoon and that's when they would clean our room. So I did not leave tips those days. At the Poly earlier this year, our Mousekeeper noticed that we would come back for afternoon naps and changed her schedule for our room, so it would be clean early. She got an extra tip every day

 

[Sandi]

I tip $5 a day for our family of 5 if they do a good job. If I feel like they are putting in some extra effort, then I tip, because I appreciate the extra effort. On our last trip however, they did not clean our room 4 days in a row, because we came back for a break during the afternoon and that's when they would clean our room. So I did not leave tips those days. At the Poly earlier this year, our Mousekeeper noticed that we would come back for afternoon naps and changed her schedule for our room, so it would be clean early. She got an extra tip every day

If you call housekeeping and ask for early service because you're coming back for naps in the early afternoon, they will accommodate you. We always did this when DD was little.

Also, we leave tips in envelopes that say "for housekeeping, thanks" We do that whether at a Disney hotel or any other hotel.

 

[Green Tea]

I tip in all hotels. Disney isn't special in that regard.