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How much of a Tip should I leave?

  • 17-09-2013 03:51PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47


    I am in a hotel. Stayed here 25 nights. The room cleaning service is good. Should I leave a tip? My clothes were folded every day. And all of my loose change was sorted regularly. How much tip should I leave? Do you leave tips when you stay in a hotel?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I always tip a fiver a day. More if they tuck me in at night as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Where is the hotel?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 HandsomeJonny


    Beijing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Beijing

    Screw 'em. Take a sh!t in the kettle.


  • Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just the tip OP. She'll appreciate it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Beijing
    5 Yuan per day would be grand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    Are you Alan Partridge?
    .......and did you disassemble the Corby trouser press?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 HandsomeJonny


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Just the tip OP. She'll appreciate it.

    Yeah but I don't know how much it should be haha? Your mans suggestion a fiver a night is 125€. Seems like mad money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Tip of the hat is more than enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 HandsomeJonny


    5 Yuan per day would be grand.
    That seems reasonable enough actually.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Just the tip OP. She'll appreciate it.

    Ah, don't be having him tease the poor girl like that! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Between 50-100 yuan I'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭naughtysmurf


    You should really tip everyday rather than at the end of your stay so as to guarantee that the person who is actually cleaning your room that day gets the tip, assuming that the hotel has more than one cleaner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    You should really tip everyday rather than at the end of your stay so as to guarantee that the person who is actually cleaning your room that day gets the tip, assuming that the hotel has more than one cleaner.

    I used to always leave it on the pillow, but I was told not to by a concierge once because apparently there is a sexual connotation attached to doing that. Just leave it on the dresser with a note everyday now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Will you be going back to the Hotel? If not, a fiver and any loose change you have.

    .

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I used to always leave it on the pillow,

    Who cleaned your room? the feckin tooth fairy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭GalwayKiefer


    I used to always leave it on the pillow, but I was told not to by a concierge once because apparently there is a sexual connotation attached to doing that.

    I was told not to because in some places the housekeeping manager might have a quick look in each room before the cleaners and swipe tips. I put the money somewhere a cleaner would find it like in between pillows.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Who cleaned your room? the feckin tooth fairy.

    On top of it, not underneath it, that way housekeeping would know it's for them, as no one would leave money there for any reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    Nah don't bother tip OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I was told not to because in some places the housekeeping manager might have a quick look in each room before the cleaners and swipe tips. I put the money somewhere a cleaner would find it like in between pillows.

    Apparently, in certain hotels, money in the pillows indicates you would like a night visitation, the greater the amount the more heavenly the apparition. So leaving a fiver there could put you in for a shock.

    Maybe a housekeeping manager made that up though. :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭3qsmavrod5twfe


    What exactly do you think you are paying for in the room rate? Cleaning optional?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Tipping hotel cleaners now is it? Jeebus :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Set fire to the hotel , the appropriate tips then would be stay low to avoid smoke inhalation , don't use the lift and don't re enter the hotel.

    Your welcome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Tipping hotel cleaners now is it? Jeebus :eek:

    Welcome to international travel.

    Perhaps stick to Mrs Murphy's B&B if you don't wish to encounter such savage customs?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    MadsL wrote: »
    Welcome to international travel.

    Perhaps stick to Mrs Murphy's B&B if you don't wish to encounter such savage customs?

    Many of us have managed a very happy life without treating staff with such fawned pity that we need to show them how much better we are than them by giving money.

    Why is it American's need to show their crassness everywhere they go?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    MadsL wrote: »
    Welcome to international travel.

    Perhaps stick to Mrs Murphy's B&B if you don't wish to encounter such savage customs?

    I'm very well travelled. I usually include the cost of cleaning in the fee I pay to the hotel I stay at though. If she poured me six cups of coffee, etc., etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    enda1 wrote: »
    Many of us have managed a very happy life without treating staff with such fawned pity that we need to show them how much better we are than them by giving money.

    Why is it American's need to show their crassness everywhere they go?

    Excuse me?
    1. I'm not American
    2. I have worked in the service industry so understand why tipping is important.
    3. A simple token of appreciation is not 'fawned pity'
    4. Tipping is NOT an American custom, it began in Tudor England.

    Perhaps your arms are just too short for your deep pockets, may I recommend a tailor?

    As to tipping cleaning staff in China, why not? Whilst not traditional, a small sum of money would certainly brighten someone's day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    MadsL wrote: »
    Excuse me?
    1. I'm not American
    2. I have worked in the service industry so understand why tipping is important.
    3. A simple token of appreciation is not 'fawned pity'
    4. Tipping is NOT an American custom, it began in Tudor England.

    Perhaps your arms are just too short for your deep pockets, may I recommend a tailor?

    As to tipping cleaning staff in China, why not? Whilst not traditional, a small sum of money would certainly brighten someone's day.


    It's rude. Try show even the tiniest bit of respect to people's culture when visiting them. You don't tip in China. Much like Japan or NZ.

    Typically the response is that it's cheap not to tip. How predictable. It's not tipping that's an American custom, it's the steam-rolling of local culture and lack of tact that is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    I'm very well travelled. I usually include the cost of cleaning in the fee I pay to the hotel I stay at though. If she poured me six cups of coffee, etc., etc.

    Tip for maid varies by country, but the equivalent of €1 a night or less is hardly going to kill anyone, and may be significant to the maid and her family.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    enda1 wrote: »
    It's rude. Try show even the tiniest bit of respect to people's culture when visiting them. You don't tip in China. Much like Japan or NZ.

    Typically the response is that it's cheap not to tip. How predictable. It's not tipping that's an American custom, it's the steam-rolling of local culture and lack of tact that is.
    I tip housekeeping everywhere I go. If the person who has to clean where I pissed and shat can't get a bit of gratuity then it is a sad sad world.


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