So I’m going on vacation in a few days and was wondering–what’s the appropriate amount to tip the person who cleans your hotel room each day? Do you calculate it by day, by how messy you make the room, or what?
One to two dollars a day is very generous.
I generally tip at the end of my stay though you could leave an envelope daily for your room attendant.
Very generous? One dollar is pretty much standard. I tip every day because it might not be the same housekeeper every day. I just leave a dollar bill on the pillow. I $2 if it’s a big room in a nicer hotel, or if I just stay one night. Hey, if you’re paying anywhere from $60-200 a night for a hotel room two bucks is noise level.
I don’t understand why you would tip hotel staff. Unless for some reason their wages are based on the expectation of tips, I don’t see the necessity to tipping. Can someone explain why one would do this? Granted the guy that runs up from the hotel restaurant from your dinner is probably a waiter and is paid with the expectation of tips, but I’m not sure on that one.
I’ve always assumed that the hotel staff DO have wages based on the expectation that they’ll be tipped–bellhops, waiters, and housekeepers. My workplace has a lot of business travelers, and I know they tip these folks.
By the standards listed above, I seem to be a generous tipper.
I usually tip $1-$2 a day for the housekeeping (on the day I’m checking out, though Cooking has an interesting idea). If the they have to work particularly hard (like the time my baby daughter threw up all over the place), I tip more.
It’s long been standard to tip the housekeeping staff.
I understand that it’s standard to tip housekeeping staff.
However, does this vary based on the number of occupants? I always remember my father tipping $1-2/person/night. Is this generous or standard?
Uh. In some senses (OK, <i>most</i> senses), this is really more of an IMHO question.
That said, before I shoot it over there does somebody have a Ms. Manners/Letetia Baldrige/otherwise citable answer?
Tipping in Las Vegas (the “tipping city”)
AT&T Business Traveling Tipping suggestions
A Lecture on Tipping in NYC (with an attached Adobe Acrobat Guide from the City of New York)
Putting “tipping hotels” into Google brings up a lot of foreign (mostly Asian) tipping suggestion sites, as well.
Thanks, Tom. That’s exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for.
I wonder if ATT reimburses its people for tipping according to the guidelines on its site?
Would tipping include Beds and Breakfasts as well?
Thanks
Quasi
Throwing tipping “bed and breakfast” into Google, there were a number of non-US sites with varying instructions. All of the U.S. sites that turned up on Google mentioned “no tipping.”
I have no idea whether that is practice or whether only specific sites that discourage tipping happen to show up in a search.
(Given that a great many B&Bs are family operated, it may be general practice to not tip since you would be tipping the “hosts” rather than “servers”–but that is purely speculation on my part.)
$2000.
But only if the hotel is on Boardwalk.