What do you tip for housekeeping (at a hotel)?

If it is just me, I generally tip $5 a day.  If it's my messy family, often more than that (don't lecture me, I do pick up after them or have them pick up -- they're still gross).

My friendly amendment question is -- do people tip differently when you show up and it turns out that the hotel doesn't do daily housekeeping?  I've had that happen a few times.  

I don't tip for days where I receive no service. I tip approximately $4-$5 per day serviced. If I'm there for 2 nights and didn't receive interim housekeeping, $5 would be my top tip.

Same. We do $5 daily for the days we receive basic service in a standard hotel room. For above and beyond, or when we have a larger room or suite, it would be more. And we are super neat, if we weren’t or had children it would likely be more. Eta: the other tipping thread reminded me that we have small plain envelopes we purchased just for this. When we are staying more than a couple nights I write a short note and put money in for each night of our stay. Helps us remember, gives an opportunity to say thank you, and makes it more obvious the money is for them. 

Since Covid none of the hotels I've stayed at do anything to the room while you are staying in it unless you ask them to. Even with 4 kids (we usually have to get two rooms) I make sure we leave the place pretty neat (usually because I'm checking to make sure we didn't forget to pack something.) I tip $20 no matter how many nights we stayed. I also leave a few dollars for the continental breakfast person on our last morning...

I had a job once making up rooms for people that traveled with some program through my college (dorm rooms) and the smell of some of those rooms in the morning when we had to go in and pull off the sheets to set the room up for the next person     We didn't get tips.  

Before Covid we stayed in a suite sort of hotel room with a kitchen one time, and I forgot to put the 'do not disturb' sign up, and they loaded and ran the dishwasher which was kind of weird...

ETA: I didn't used to tip but then I read a non-fiction book called The Maid by Stephanie Land.  There is also a mini-series based on the book with Andie Macdowell in it.  Anyway, ever since reading that book, I can't not leave a tip... 

$5 per day then $20 at the end of my stay if it’s more than 3 days. My sister-in-law’s MIL is a hotel housekeeper and I know how hard she works and how few and far between good tips can be.

Same.

We seldom want housekeeping services. And most often keep the Do Not Disturb sign on our door. We will gather up any trash and sit it outside the door. On check out, we gather up all trash, strip beds and put into the bathtub with used towels. If a table is really messy, I will wipe it down with a Lysol wipe. I try to leave the room(s) as clean as I can. I will leave a tip of $15 when we leave. We seldom stay more than 2 nights at a hotel.

I worked as an assistant housekeeping supervisor at a Hampton about 20+ years ago. We had about 20 rooms (I think) a day to clean. At the time, we were allotted 20 minutes or less per room on a check out and less on stay overs. (To many years have passed and I can't remember exact times or number of rooms.) We had to put clean sheets on stay-overs unless indicated not too. I would go to all the check outs and strip the rooms of linens and trash to help our
housekeepers . 20 minutes may seem like a long time but not when you consider all that has to be done. I'm sure things have changed since I worked in housekeeping, especially since Covid. Housekeeping is a hard job and I appreciate what they do.

We don’t leave a daily tip because we don’t have them come in while we’re there. Maybe $10 at the end of our stay.

I have never tipped housekeeping staff anywhere other than the US. It would never occur to me. Before our first trip to WDW in 2006, I was told the rate should be $1 p.p.p.n. I think we observed that that first time, but maybe not subsequently. 

I only tip at the high end hotels we stay at, as they usually go above and beyond just making the bed. I tip at the end of our stay. If we are just staying in a random hotel one or two nights, I put the do not disturb sign on and dont want housekeeping in my room.

We typically dont stay long enough to require housekeeping, but we had one longer stay last year and I think I gave her $20

Agreed
The only exception I made was once when I accidentally trashed a sheet, and then when we were in Mexico City i left a tip daily because the maids were so thoughtful and thorough. My Mexican friend scolded me and said I left too much, but I sure did get extra good service. 😁

We tip, but the amount depends on length of stay. Usually around $10 per day, per room (we usually have 2 connecting rooms or a suite). We are not slobs. We throw out our trash, put our towels in one pile, put items back where they belong.

My son is currently in a job training program for adults with developmental disabilities. One of his rotations was as a housekeeper in a large conference hotel. Please be generous to the housekeepers. They work so hard and are not paid well for the disgusting things that they deal with. To say that some people are complete pigs is an understatement. People leave the rooms in a complete mess, human waste on toilet seats, etc.

I’m curious when all of this tipping started. I worked in hotel housekeeping in college and don’t recall ever getting a tip. I also wonder if it’s regional?