Post by bc2ca on Aug 22, 2014 17:54:55 GMT
I wonder why some of you tip who you do? I know I asked it before. Most of us tip at the hair dresser and nail salon. Why do you guys feel the need to tip there when they already earn a salary?
Julie
Any time we have rented a condo/home for vacation we have never left a tip because we have already been charged a cleaning fee which seems to be larger than what I pay the lady who cleans my own home. Or again, I expect it to be part of the rental cost. I haven't considered leaving a tip because I don't know that the cleaning crew will be the first ones into the place once we leave. And a few of them have required us to strip the beds and wash the sheets before we leave. So in a way, we are at lest doing some of the cleaning ourselves.
I really just prefer not to have strangers in my room while I'm not there. It creeps me out. So we leave the DND sign up at all times, make our own beds, and call down for towels if we need them.
To clarify, they only do not reimburse for housekeeping gratuities. They used to reimburse up to $2/night. The last T&E policy from about 2 years eliminated that as a reimbursable expense. They do reimburse valet/bellman/room service.