NWR: Hotel Tipping...w/poll

I'm just amazed! And here i thought my FH's friend was the odd one out! Guess not huh? You learn something new every day!

whether i'm local or international--one night of 2 wks....whenever i've stayed in hotel i've always tipped. perhaps it's because i was a waitress for awhile, and i know what it's like to work for tips. more often than not, the maids for hotels do not get paid that much, because they are considered tipped employees.

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Posted by aliwnec10

Now i'm just curious... but why do you tip for the honeymoon and not for a night?

Do you tip at the end of the honeymoon or did you tip each day? (Because what if the same person isn't cleaning your room each day/week)

I'm just totally baffled here because i thought this was a universal thing that everyone did. Apparently i was wrong.

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whenever i've stayed at a hotel for a few days, they've usually had a little card of sign that says 'Hi, My name is so-and-so and I will be taking care of your room during your stay. If you need anything--feel free to leave a note.' And this was usually next to an envelope. So at the end of the stay I would leave something like $20 or so depending on the service.

For example--FH and i went to cancun last may, and had such a card in our room. Everyday it was spotless, with fresh towels, soap, etc. She even made sure to make these cute swans out of the towels with fresh flowers. The mini-fridge was stocked with diet soda, regular soda, juice, and water, etc. I left a note that for the remainder of my stay after day 1, that I wanted only regular soda (as neither one of us like diet, and i didn't want to waste it), and she happily obliged! So I think we left her like $25-30 or so for a 5 day stay.

Always.

Especially on cruises. We tip our room guy $50 the first time we see them and get great service the whole time! (& they dont snitch when we have our own liquor in the room)