Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?
ETA- I’m in the US. Does the rest of the world tip housekeeping? I always have when traveling because I do at home, but I don’t know what the norm is.
Tipping isn’t a thing in my country, to the extent that if you left money lying around your room it would most probably still be there when you got back.
Unless maybe you were staying somewhere that gets a lot of tipping tourists.
it would most probably still be there when you got back.
What country is this
New Zealand.
Yap, +1 on my bucket list.
Cool, hope you make it here one day! Which country do you live in?
Along side the serengeti
Ah that’s such an interesting part of the world! Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya? I would offer to do a temporary house swap but I don’t own my own house yet.
Do you live in Tanzania, or Kenya?
Tanzania
Only tip on stayovers. I used to be a housekeeper and I kind of grew to expect it after a guest had been in the room for multiple days, but never for just an overnight.
If you make a really big mess in the room, and don’t tip on a stay over, I would dip your toothbrush in the toilet 😂
I don’t tip housekeeping normally.
I was a housekeeper and most Asian folks leave a toonie on or around the pillow everyday in canada it was really sweet
American here. What’s a toonie?
$2CAD coin
I’m in the US. Personally I always just leave a tip out in the morning before stepping out for the day, whether that’s the day of checkout or before a mid-stay cleaning. That way I know it’s always going to whoever ends up cleaning the room.
Yes. I tip regardless of how long my stay is. I leave money on the dresser or table when I check out.
Never tipped housekeeping at hotels for standard, other then change that I didn’t want to take on a plane ride. Travel in the EU, Asia, Americas.
For longer stay places at non-hotels, I have tipped for service outside the standard level. i.e. extra towels, change sheets every day, do laundry
My thinking is - if tipping is required, it should be in the room price. Plus business travelers don’t have a ability to expense house keeping tips (unlike food tips which are normalized in US expense reports)
I was about to say, for work trips I absolutely can’t and don’t. I’m not paying for it, I probably don’t want to actually be whenever I’m at anyway. I might for exceptional service on a holiday or if I want quick service again but never do as a standard.
This should hardly be a controversial norm: tip because you feel like it, period.
Tipping housekeepers is not the norm. You shouldn’t feel obligated to tip, ever.
The 15% of a meal thing never made sense to me either. Does it take any more work to carry a $60 steak to a table than it does a $15 steak?
It’s not My job to pay some company’s employees a living wage when I don’t even make a living wage myself.if your getting the same service at a place that charges 15 vs 60 a steak that’s pretty bad. it’s not just carrying the food.
It’s a percentage because the $60 steak was assumably at a nicer restaurant where you received more in depth service.
Fine dining servers may only have a couple of tables at once, or even for the entire night. You’re paying more for more individual attention.
It also scales in reverse. A server on a shift with a $10 blue plate special will probably have 10 tables before things go off the rails. They’ll also put serious work into getting your ass off that table the minute your plate is clean.
I feel that way about bars - expensive wine is not harder to open than cheap wine. Had a fight with my husband about it because he once ordered a VERY expensive drink and then started to tip 20% on it.
In the UK a few pubs have started the “how much would you like to tip?” When you pay by card.
When I see that, it’s always the last pint I buy from there.
Tipping is not customary here. People tip if they think the service is exceptional or they might “buy the bar tender a drink” if they want to build a relationship as a regular. I’m not OK with this shitty American culture creeping in.
I’ve never heard of tipping housekeeping at hotels, why would you do that? They get paid by the hotel
Because it’s a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.
While it’s nice for the employee to get some extra bucks, tipping only supports minimal pay for the job because “they’ll make up for it in tips”.
Not tipping only punishes the victim, not the employer.
In pretty much every other country, you pay once and the worker gets paid from that.
It’s pretty much only America where you pay once for the food and then again for the service because the employees wage is so horrifically low that they can’t survive with out your direct subsidy.
Earning enough from your hourly rate/salary isn’t a punishment, it just simplifies the process and removes the need for the “how much do we tip” conversation.
If you think the service was exceptional, you can still tip, it’s just the difference between rewarding great work and tipping out of obligation.
The problem is that people in this thread are in the mindset that tipping encourages lower wages, when in reality, low wages encourage tipping. The US has an absurdly low minimum wage relative to the cost of living, and that minimum wage of $7.25 has an exemption for tipped employees who can earn as little as $2.33 an hour. While it’s true that many states have higher minimum wages than the federal wage, there are several that are the same as federal.
Depends on where I’m at. In the U.S. (where I’m from), I would personally tip. I also tipped in Mexico when I vacationed there recently. I wouldn’t tip in a no-tip/offensive-tip country (e.g. France).
I don’t tip at hotels, ever.
I usually only let them in once every 3 days just to replace towels. I make my own bed, and don’t trash the place so I don’t need much from them.
I wasn’t aware I was supposed to tip. I pretty much never have cash anyway.
Tip or don’t tip, don’t ever feel like there’s an expectation to. Not always but I often leave 1-3 bucks in change usually when I check out, especially so if say the floor or bed gets a bit sandy or I check out at 11:10, something like that.
I don’t even let them in the room. Housekeeping left the door to my room open once for the entire day. I was across from the elevator. Thankfully nothing was stolen, but ya know, fool me once
