Tipping hotel parking valet

[Anonymous]

I’m traveling for work this week, staying at a hotel where valet parking is the only option. I generally go out of my way to avoid valet situations, so help me out here. Do I tip the valet every single time my car is retrieved? And I give it to them when they bring me my car?

[Anonymous]

Yes, that’s right.

[Anonymous]

I don’t tip. That’s their job

[Anonymous]

Yes. $5.

[Anonymous]

It’s a racket but you do just have to grin and bear it. $5 each time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

Do you tip servers and bartenders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

I hope they key your car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

It’s their job and tips are expected. The second or third time you get your car, you may be waiting awhile.

[Anonymous]

$5 is correct and why do you care? I would put it on my expense report without a second thought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

Do you tip servers and bartenders?

No OP, but bartenders should not be a tipped profession.

[Anonymous]

Not unless the company is paying. This is why tipping culture in the US sucks so, sooooooo much. What, a, I supposed to tip the bellhop, the cleaning staff and the valet at the hotel while I’m on a trip for business?

Hell no I’m not forking over all that cash out of my own pocket while traveling somewhere due to my work requiring it. Also, it’s annoying because 99% of the time I don’t even carry cash anymore, so how am I supposed to tip these people even if I wanted to?

Just kill tipping culture please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

Do you tip servers and bartenders?

Do you tip the Amazon delivery guy? Do you tip the guys who did your oil change? If not, please explain why servers and bartenders get tips while the Amazon guy doesn’t. They all provide services.

Just admit US tipping culture sucks and makes zero damn sense.

[Anonymous]

$5 every time seems high

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

Do you tip servers and bartenders?

No OP, but bartenders should not be a tipped profession.

That…wasn’t the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$5 every time seems high

It is.

Also, who the hell carries $5 bills anymore. So you’re telling me I gotta now go outta my way to an ATM to get cash, which will probably charge me an outrageous surcharge fee for a withdrawal, then make another stop to buy something or ask a cashier to break the $20 bills the machine only spits out? All so I can tip a valet guy? What a PITA.

The hotel should just pay them appropriately in the first place. Cash is dying. Many people these days never carry any, so it’s much more of a PITA to tip now.