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.
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
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.
Depends where I’m staying. In no-tipping countries i wouldn’t tip at all, but if it’s common/expected, I’d leave some change on the bedside table in the morning when leaving the hotel/checking out.
My dudes in North America really have the most unstructured social support system.
Don’t look at us. I’m north american and have been in hotels plenty of times and have no clue what this dude is talking about.
Tipping people or not tipping people isn’t what’s perpetuating the system. Those who do tip aren’t at fault, it’s the ownership class exploiting workers so hard that they’ve delegated even their one, most basic duty off onto the customer: paying their fuckin employees.
You still have a 20% tip at restaurants, it’s insane
The 20% is relatively new. It was always around 10%, and then restaurants started “suggesting” higher tips on the receipts, and basically guilting people into tipping more. It was pushed up to 15% in the mid '00s, and then only pushed up to 20% during Covid. I have been called a piece of shit human on multiple occasions because I didn’t buy into the restaurants randomly changing it on me. There is immense social pressure here around tipping.
The restaurants have a financial motivation to want the tips to be higher, so I feel like it’s a conflict of interest for them to be suggesting the tip amount. I think the government needs to get involved and regulate tipping or even outright ban it at this point, because restaurants aren’t going to stop pushing the envelope at 20%.
I went to a restaurant last month that automatically places a 20% tip on your receipt.
But if you pay by card like I do and don’t read the fine print in the bottom of the menu front page like I do, you end up giving a 15% tip and then finding out about the 20% tip after you’ve accepted your food cost+ 15% on their stupid little tablet. And of course I’m not going to make a big deal about it. I’ll just never come back.
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 live in the US and I have never tipped housekeeping, nor have I ever heard of someone doing it.
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
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.
