If you don’t use housekeeping do you still tip?

[Anonymous]

I always do. Always. And never use housekeeping except for maybe asking for more towels. I tip $5 - $40 depending on how long I've occupied the room (meaning, housekeeping would have missed-out on other tips if my stay is a long time)

I'm tipping for the work they do - getting the room ready for arrival for me, and cleaning-up for the person coming next. I'm not thinking about it as tipping for work while I'm there.

[Anonymous]

we tip one night's worth the morning that we leave -- so $5 or $10.

[Anonymous]

I didn't last week and now regret it as the cans were full. We were there several days and after 2 left the do not disturb inside so they would come clean. I left a $20 for the cleaner 3 days in a row. They never came so I took the $20 deciding they didn't deserve it not having cleaned once but really they just had more to empty out so I should have left it despite feeling put out not having cleaning service once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We always stay on Do Not Disturb especially if it’s only a 2 or 3 night visit. Should we still tip when we check out and if so how much?

yes, you use the housekeeping - you expect a clean room when you arrive and then housekeeping cleans it after you leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We always stay on Do Not Disturb especially if it’s only a 2 or 3 night visit. Should we still tip when we check out and if so how much?

yes, you use the housekeeping - you expect a clean room when you arrive and then housekeeping cleans it after you leave.

This is all included in the exhorbitant hotel fees. If expensive hotels have trouble keeping housekeeping staff because they don't pay them enough, that is their problem because they are certainly making enough money on the room fees. Housekeeping is not an additional fee any more than using the pool is an additional fee. We don't tip the guy who maintains the pool and its not our job to pay the salary of the housekeepers.

[Anonymous]

No, except for dirty sheets and towels we leave the room very clean and we take the trash out every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We always stay on Do Not Disturb especially if it’s only a 2 or 3 night visit. Should we still tip when we check out and if so how much?

yes, you use the housekeeping - you expect a clean room when you arrive and then housekeeping cleans it after you leave.

This is all included in the exhorbitant hotel fees. If expensive hotels have trouble keeping housekeeping staff because they don't pay them enough, that is their problem because they are certainly making enough money on the room fees. Housekeeping is not an additional fee any more than using the pool is an additional fee. We don't tip the guy who maintains the pool and it’s not our job to pay the salary of the housekeepers.

No one is requiring you to tip.

[Anonymous]

There was a discussion in one of the fb groups and a couple people claimed to have worked in housekeeping and that their managers knew when guests checked out and did a run under pretense of checking the room and took their tips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We always stay on Do Not Disturb especially if it’s only a 2 or 3 night visit. Should we still tip when we check out and if so how much?

yes, you use the housekeeping - you expect a clean room when you arrive and then housekeeping cleans it after you leave.

This is all included in the exhorbitant hotel fees. If expensive hotels have trouble keeping housekeeping staff because they don't pay them enough, that is their problem because they are certainly making enough money on the room fees. Housekeeping is not an additional fee any more than using the pool is an additional fee. We don't tip the guy who maintains the pool and it’s not our job to pay the salary of the housekeepers.

No one is requiring you to tip.

Precisely my point.

[Anonymous]

I do, on check out.

[Anonymous]

I have never tipped housekeeping in my life. I had no clue this was a thing until a recent DCUM post.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t know either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a discussion in one of the fb groups and a couple people claimed to have worked in housekeeping and that their managers knew when guests checked out and did a run under pretense of checking the room and took their tips.

That totally sucks. I’m sure this happens on one way or another in other industries too,

[Anonymous]

I don’t tip housekeepers, but I do recognize that we all use housekeepers between stays.

[Anonymous]

I don’t tip American housekeeping, f that, they get benefits so do your job. I tip in south East Asia and Central America and international beach resorts where they actually do things to earn a tip. Americans are lazy and I’m not tipping for you just doing your job, only when you go above and beyond.