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Post by melanell on Mar 28, 2024 15:14:18 GMT
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? All I can say is that growing up, my father always tipped anyplace we stayed---whether hotel or motel, regardless of price or location. Now, my parents opted to keep our family travels to just the N.E. US, so if it is regional, then that's the region we were always in. But yeah, growing up I figured it was totally the thing to do to tip, because he always did. Back then several of the places we stayed provided special tip envelopes for housekeeping as well, so it wasn't like it was just Dad's own personal thing, though. So that would have been the late 70s through the very early 90s.
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Post by mikklynn on Mar 28, 2024 15:30:42 GMT
I used to tip $5/day, but since hotels started not serving my room daily, I generally do not tip.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Mar 28, 2024 15:38:58 GMT
I learned about tipping as a child, from my Grandmother. It started with restaurants and tipping for a meal. When I was traveling on an overnight School trip, she told me to leave a tip in the room every day for the housekeeper or to give a tip to the counter person at the hostel (which is usually where the School group stayed). It was the middle 70's, and I think the tip was a quarter or two. I just remember my Grandmother giving me a bunch of dimes and quarters in a coin person and explaining who I was supposed to tip. The counter person who made the ice cream cones at the tastee freeze was a dime tip. I was also taught to give the host-hostess a tip, when being shown to a seat at the outdoor music theater when attending with the School or summer day camp. I vaguely remember feeling very grownup, when I left or gave a tip. Had my Grandmother not taught me, I wouldn't have known about tipping.
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Post by epeanymous on Mar 28, 2024 15:51:50 GMT
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? I am in my early 50s. My parents did not tip at hotels, and/but we rarely traveled and mostly stayed in Motel 6 type places; my first college boyfriend, who grew up affluent, was horrified the first time we took a trip and he discovered I did not know to tip. So I wonder if it is something that was standard practice at nicer hotels and trickled down over the years, although my parents are/were also people who topped out restaurant tips at $2 no matter the bill, so who knows?
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Post by Linda on Mar 28, 2024 16:12:18 GMT
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? same - I worked at an expensive hotel in 1988 the summer between high school and college. I got a couple of tips the entire summer - it was definitely a nice surprise if it happened. I do tip housekeeping though - $5/night minimum - because I know how hard they work.
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Post by busy on Mar 28, 2024 16:29:03 GMT
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? I don’t know if it’s regional, but I know my parents tipped housekeeping when I was growing up on the west coast. I’m pretty sure I’m older than you, so it’s not a new thing.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 28, 2024 16:34:00 GMT
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. This has always been what I’ve heard too and any time I’ve traveled with friends that what we’d leave. I’ve taken loads of trips with friends all across the U.S. from the early 90’s on (so at least the last 30 years) and we’ve always tipped so it’s definitely not something new. However, in more recent years I prefer it if housekeeping doesn’t come into my room at all during my stay so I put up the DND tag on the door and now just tip once at the end of the stay, maybe $5 or so. We’re not slobs at all and I leave the room very neat making it less work for them to come through and quickly turn the room over for the next guests.
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Post by TXMary on Mar 28, 2024 16:51:48 GMT
We stay in Marriotts 99% of the time and they don't do daily service anymore unless you request it. It's just DH and I and we're very tidy so I don't usually request it unless we are there for an extended stay and only then after several days. I do ask that they leave us fresh towels everyday. I don't tip if we aren't getting daily service. Back when it used to always be daily service, I tipped $5 a day and that's what I tip for the requested service now. I don't tip extra at check out.
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Post by Mary_K on Mar 28, 2024 17:46:57 GMT
I've said it before & I'll say it again.
I'm tired of the tipping.
Just charge what you need to charge to pay your people.
Then, I can decide if I want to use that service or not.
Mary K.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Mar 28, 2024 18:33:54 GMT
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. We rarely stay anywhere with daily housekeeping, and I usually leave $10 at the end of the stay. However, there was this one time that I am sure they thought we were pigs. I got a stomach virus on my way to the hotel, and then one of my girls came down with it the first night. Thank goodness we were only there for 2 days because everyone else had it when we got home. Anyway, we did our best to clean the place, but it did smell pretty rank when we left. Unfortunately, we were in town for an event DH had to attend, and we couldn't leave until after the 2nd night. I think we tipped $60-ish for that stay because we really appreciated the extra clean towels housekeeping brought me and DD while DH and the other DDs were at the event. I was pretty sure they were going to have to spend some extra time to sanitize the room. Fortunately, it was a suite, and sick DD and I could quasi-quarantine in one room. DH and the other DDs spent their extra time at the movies and shopping so they wouldn't be cooped up with us. And they bought air sanitizer LOL.
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Post by katiekaty on Mar 28, 2024 18:48:41 GMT
I've said it before & I'll say it again. I'm tired of the tipping. Just charge what you need to charge to pay your people. Then, I can decide if I want to use that service or not. Mary K. I have it up here on the boards before. Tired of tipping. We don’t tip at hotels. We have never tipped. I won’t start now.
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Post by twistedscissors on Mar 29, 2024 0:11:13 GMT
I usually put the do not disturb sign on our door the whole time. Then if I need extra towels I just ask a maid for them while they have their carts out in the mornings. Or ask front desk for them in the evenings when we are coming back in for the night.
We don’t leave messes and leave the towels in one pile usually in the bathroom floor. I don’t usually tip.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 29, 2024 11:35:45 GMT
I've said it before & I'll say it again. I'm tired of the tipping. Just charge what you need to charge to pay your people. Then, I can decide if I want to use that service or not. Mary K. I agree. I’m tried of being expected to give tips for every little thing. Now I’m wondering if the manager of the housekeeping unit went in to the rooms before me and the other housekeepers and took the tips. I wouldn’t think so but with everyone saying they leave tips, even years ago, it’s odd that I didn’t ever get tips.
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Post by zuke on Mar 29, 2024 12:19:41 GMT
I don't always tip but if I were to, it would be daily, never a lump sum at the end. You could be tipping a housekeeper that only cleaned your room for one day while another person cleaned it for 5 days. As some have mentioned... I'm also tired or everyone expecting tips for ANY job.
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Post by ihaveonly1l on Mar 29, 2024 13:20:43 GMT
At hotels, we tip $5/day per person but only for the days we have service. At resorts we tip housekeeping by the day and the concierge (butler) service at the end of our stay.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Mar 29, 2024 15:11:16 GMT
I’ve never tipped housekeeping in a hotel and do not intend to start. And as an aside, since covid, we haven't had housekeeping come into a hotel room and do anything for us. Our longest stay was 3 nights and we make our own bed and reuse all the towels (or get fresh ones from the front desk).
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Post by scrapperal on Mar 29, 2024 16:18:07 GMT
I tip about $5-10 day, depending on how many small bills I have on me. If I don't have daily service, then it is that amount on the last day. I don't leave a mess and I don't stay anywhere fancy. I too hate the tipping culture, but I think that housekeeping is a tough job and if I can afford to travel, I can afford to leave a little extra for them.
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Post by kate on Mar 29, 2024 17:02:34 GMT
In a hotel I like to leave money out daily. That way there doesn't need to be any division of a full stay's worth of tips if different people cleaned the room on different days. And then if no one cleans the room on any given day, the money stays where I left it. This is what I do, too. $5/day. I am a freak about making the housekeeper's life easier. Nothing is left out - everything is back in my suitcase or hung in the closet when I leave the room for the day - no papers on the desk, no makeup rolling around the bathroom counter. Towels that I want changed are piled together. Most of my travel is solo or with one other person, and usually at midlevel hotels where conventions are held (standard Hyatt/Hilton/Marriott...) And yes, I get a lot of eyerolls from my travel companions about keeping the room picked up LOL
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Post by katlady on Mar 29, 2024 17:40:53 GMT
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? I don’t know if it’s regional, but I know my parents tipped housekeeping when I was growing up on the west coast. I’m pretty sure I’m older than you, so it’s not a new thing. This. West coast here. My parents tipped when we traveled. I remember when I was a kid once asking what the money was for. Later, in my 20's, I traveled with some friends and they didn't leave a tip and I was conflicted on what to do since I thought leaving a tip was the thing to do. I ended up throwing some dollars on the table when we left because I felt bad. Today, we still tip the housekeeping. We leave $5 a day. I don't leave it all until the end because I don't know if the same housekeeper comes everyday. I've noticed that daily room service has come back to a lot of hotels. We stayed in 3 within the past 6 months and all had daily room service again. I don't mind tipping the housekeeper because they are cleaning up after you. They are handling your dirty towels, sheets, and emptying your trash.
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Post by katlady on Mar 29, 2024 17:44:31 GMT
In a hotel I like to leave money out daily. That way there doesn't need to be any division of a full stay's worth of tips if different people cleaned the room on different days. And then if no one cleans the room on any given day, the money stays where I left it. This is what I do, too. $5/day. I am a freak about making the housekeeper's life easier. Nothing is left out - everything is back in my suitcase or hung in the closet when I leave the room for the day - no papers on the desk, no makeup rolling around the bathroom counter. Towels that I want changed are piled together. Most of my travel is solo or with one other person, and usually at midlevel hotels where conventions are held (standard Hyatt/Hilton/Marriott...) And yes, I get a lot of eyerolls from my travel companions about keeping the room picked up LOL I traveled with a friend who was very extreme about leaving the room neat. She folded up her used towel in such a way that the housekeeper thought it wasn't used, so she didn't get a new towel. I told her not to fold it so nicely. My towel get changed.
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