# Tipping Redux **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413 "2022-09-12T03:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/21 "2022-10-10T01:32:30Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > If you are going to a old school vegas show, tip the guy at the entrance who takes your ticket, _and_ the guy taking you to your table. Don’t be cheap. Dress nice. By doing this at a Coaster/Platter/Drifters\* show they put us next to the stage (3 seats back), One of the Coasters came off the stage and sang a song to my date, gave her a silk handkerchief, and an autographed CD. I think it was a $10 tip and a $20 or something like that. She said it was the most special time she ever had. Years ago my wife and I and a friend went to a Rat Pack tribute show at the Desert Inn (I said it was a while ago). We tipped like this and got seats right off the stage. The guy doing Dean Martin came to the edge of the stage and sang to my wife. She told me it was the high point of the trip. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/22 "2022-10-10T05:37:39Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Years ago my wife and I and a friend went to a Rat Pack tribute show at the Desert Inn (I said it was a while ago). We tipped like this and got seats right off the stage. The guy doing Dean Martin came to the edge of the stage and sang to my wife. She told me it was the high point of the trip. Yep, it is worth it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/23 "2022-10-10T06:18:52Z")
For a couple leave $5 a day for housekeeping Just one of you and you didn’t make a big mess half that is good. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/24 "2022-10-10T23:23:47Z")
It’s been a while since I’ve been to Vegas, but the last time I was there it seemed like most of the shows have pretty much reverted to strictly assigned seating, so the days of being able to tip your way to prime seating may be drawing to a close. Of course, if you’re a high roller you can always get choice seats from the casino managers. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/25 "2022-10-16T20:48:50Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > It’s been a while since I’ve been to Vegas, but the last time I was there it seemed like most of the shows have pretty much reverted to strictly assigned seating, so the days of being able to tip your way to prime seating may be drawing to a close. Indeed, for both the shows we’ve booked we have assigned seats. ---
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/26 "2022-10-16T21:17:36Z")
At a college football game, I got a ride in a golf cart for several hundred feet. The cart was driven by a student who offered the ride even before I knew it was available. I had stopped only to ask directions. She said hop in. Should I have tipped her? How much? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/27 "2022-10-16T21:24:18Z")
I felt bad about not tipping the bud tender but when I opened my wallet again I had no cash left. Then in my awkwardness about the whole transaction ( it was my first commercial weed purchase) some change fell out of my wallet to the floor. I ignored it as Im profusely thanking him. Yet when I was about to leave he picked up a dime I dropped and offers it to me. I wasnt about to say keep it? That would’ve burned, so I took it and left embarrassed. I’ll do right by him next time. And maybe pick my own buds and accept the whiffs of coffee palate cleanser. Lol. Legal! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/28 "2022-11-12T01:03:23Z")
Thanks again for the tips on tipping. We had a very good time in Vegas. I did not win money but did not lose too much either. Unfortunately though, I picked up Covid in Vegas and am now sick at home back in Waikiki. Fully vaccinated, so it should turn out well. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/29 "2022-11-12T03:23:03Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Unfortunately though, I picked up Covid in Vegas and am now sick at home back in Waikiki. _Unfortunately_ and _home in Waikiki_ in the same sentence does not garner a huge amount of sympathy. 😉 Feel better soon. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/30 "2022-11-12T17:26:50Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Thanks again for the tips on tipping. We had a very good time in Vegas Sorry to hear you got sick. But please report back, who did you tip and who did you not tip? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/31 "2022-11-12T21:05:01Z")
Thanks all. I left a fiver on the pillow for the room maid, a tenner on check-out. Tipped the blackjack dealer sporadically, a $5 chip or occasionally two, often after a blackjack or a big win from splitting or doubling down even though I ultimately lost (but was up for a while). I boned up on craps before I went but was unable to pry myself from the blackjack tables. Otherwise the usual, cab drivers and restaurants. The two shows we saw, no one led us to our seats – since it was assigned seating, they just sort of pointed the way from the entrance. The wife was going to play the slots, but Criminy! Our last time in Vegas, 1995, those were still coins and handles. Now they’re all these futuristic-looking monstrosities, pretty to look at but very confusing. No staff could be bothered to show us how they worked, so the wife said to hell with that and did not gamble a penny of her $500 budget. So that’s a potential $500 loss for the casinos. We spent even more time at museums and sightseeing as a result, cutting down my own gambling time and thus possibly (probably?) preventing the casinos from getting even more of my money. They really need to have something in place to tutor the first-time gambler. I had read that they do theoretically, but damned if anyone was interested in showing us how those slots worked exactly. Just to mention: This was my first time change in 31-1/2 years, since living in Albuquerque the spring of 1991. The first time ever for the wife, who has only ever lived in Thailand and Hawaii, neither of which changes its clocks. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/32 "2022-11-12T22:11:38Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > did not gamble a penny of her $500 budget. Winner, winner, chicken dinner! ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413/33 "2022-11-14T19:44:26Z")
We once went to Vegas, my mother-in-law lived there, and my wife talked to her and her mother advised that we take a cab everywhere and tip the drivers $5. So, we did that, fine. Later my wife talked to her mother again and she vehemently denied ever saying that and that she would never tip a cab driver $5. WTF!? I don’t know. I still don’t understand what happened there. But, it wasn’t a big deal. Once we were in Chicago with two other couples, and we all chipped in to get a couple of Pizza’s at the hotel room. Everybody gave me their cash, and I paid at the door, with instructions that any amount over what we owed would be the tip. No one wanted change. When I got back they asked me about it and the tip had come out to about $20 or so. One of the husbands almost hit the roof! That’s crazy! You don’t tip a pizza guy $20!! Everybody else was fine with it. It was kinda funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tipping-redux/971413.md?page=1)