Can we talk hotel tipping?

[Anonymous]

We tip bell hop $5 and housekeeping $20 per night per room( we usually have adult and kids room). I agree hotels should pay a better wage for housekeeping but me withholding money from the people that are poorly paid won’t change that. I’d also feel like a jerk if I was staying at a luxury resort and not tipping.
I think hotels should give guests the ability to tip housekeeping thru a credit card in the event people don’t have cash. However if they did that I am sure they would find a way to give housekeeping only a percentage of it.

[Anonymous]

$5-10 for bellhop, $5 for valet, $5-10 for housekeeping. I definitely don’t tip for arranging a cab and honestly don’t do cabs anymore anyway.

[Anonymous]

If you google "tipping hotel housekeeping," you'll still find that the ranges quoted are $1-5, $2-5, and $3-5 per night. I don't think the standard of $20/night quoted by multiple PPs is typical, but I am not arguing -- that's great for those that do it.

I travel solo and generally stay 1-3 nights. I usually do not ask for housekeeping but will leave about $5/night. I feel that is perfectly fine. I leave the room as tidy as it can be with a bed I've slept in.

[Anonymous]

I tip 10% of room rate per day. If I stay at $2000 per day resort, I tip $200 per day. If I stay at $5000 per day resort, I tip $500 per day. I distribute the tip among various service providers. And I treat service providers as fellow human beings and they appreciate that very much. I don’t behave like a pseudo royalty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tip 10% of room rate per day. If I stay at $2000 per day resort, I tip $200 per day. If I stay at $5000 per day resort, I tip $500 per day. I distribute the tip among various service providers. And I treat service providers as fellow human beings and they appreciate that very much. I don’t behave like a pseudo royalty!

Ok if you are in a $2009/noght okace then tipping $200 a day is absurd. If everyone did this, the housekeepers would be making $200k a year. Very generous of you though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tip 10% of room rate per day. If I stay at $2000 per day resort, I tip $200 per day. If I stay at $5000 per day resort, I tip $500 per day. I distribute the tip among various service providers. And I treat service providers as fellow human beings and they appreciate that very much. I don’t behave like a pseudo royalty!

Dumb..

You exacerbate the problem, because the hotel takes advantage of you, the customer throwing around stupid amounts of money. You enable hotels to not pay livable wages.

Nothing is worse than when you try to check into a hotel while on a business trip and they aggressively funnel you towards a bellhop who takes your luggage, or you need to give your luggage for holding because you have arrived early and your room isn't ready and you are expected to tip a bag handler. I almost never carry cash these days, I am not going to use my personal cash for tipping while on a business trip, and I am not allowed to throw around money as I please on a business credit card even if I were somehow able to tip on a credit card. The you are put into a very awkward situation where your bags are brought to the room and you have no money and no way to tip them and they stand there waiting for a tip.

The charade is stupid beyond belief and US tipping culture is asinine. I don't tip the mailman. I don't tip the garbage man. I do not tip the mechanic. I do not tip the plumber. I do not tip the nurse at the hospital. I do not tip my doctor. I do not tip the Amazon delivery guy. I do not tip the grocery store bagger. Everyone needs to do their jobs. If they don't like the salary then they should get a new one. That way if hotels are paying so low and everyone leaves for higher paying jobs it will force hotels to raise wages and stop the ludicrous culture of trying to force labor compensation onto the guest.
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[Anonymous]

Don't you care about the hardworking women cleaning rooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't you care about the hardworking women cleaning rooms?

Hotel's responsibility to lay them, not the guest's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't you care about the hardworking women cleaning rooms?

Hotel's responsibility to lay them, not the guest's.

*Pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't you care about the hardworking women cleaning rooms?

Hotel's responsibility to lay them, not the guest's.

Guess you’re one of those bootstrap people.

[Anonymous]

I might leave $10 for the housekeeper after staying a few days but mostly I save all my tip money for servers in restaurants. They do not make minimum wage in their paychecks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tip 10% of room rate per day. If I stay at $2000 per day resort, I tip $200 per day. If I stay at $5000 per day resort, I tip $500 per day. I distribute the tip among various service providers. And I treat service providers as fellow human beings and they appreciate that very much. I don’t behave like a pseudo royalty!

Dumb..

You exacerbate the problem, because the hotel takes advantage of you, the customer throwing around stupid amounts of money. You enable hotels to not pay livable wages.

Nothing is worse than when you try to check into a hotel while on a business trip and they aggressively funnel you towards a bellhop who takes your luggage, or you need to give your luggage for holding because you have arrived early and your room isn't ready and you are expected to tip a bag handler. I almost never carry cash these days, I am not going to use my personal cash for tipping while on a business trip, and I am not allowed to throw around money as I please on a business credit card even if I were somehow able to tip on a credit card. The you are put into a very awkward situation where your bags are brought to the room and you have no money and no way to tip them and they stand there waiting for a tip.

The charade is stupid beyond belief and US tipping culture is asinine. I don't tip the mailman. I don't tip the garbage man. I do not tip the mechanic. I do not tip the plumber. I do not tip the nurse at the hospital. I do not tip my doctor. I do not tip the Amazon delivery guy. I do not tip the grocery store bagger. Everyone needs to do their jobs. If they don't like the salary then they should get a new one. That way if hotels are paying so low and everyone leaves for higher paying jobs it will force hotels to raise wages and stop the ludicrous culture of trying to force labor compensation onto the guest.
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Preach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy paying $2k a night wont leave a tip for the maids making minimum wage. Wow.

And, forgetting colds and flu are surfaces, covid is airborne. For a maid to miss a week of work is a big deal. For what that poster spends a night, the housekeeper may make $1K to $1500 a month.

There are plenty of low wage workers
Hotels are in a position to pay salaries
Rather donate to a charity that actually does help people
Salaried workers are doing ok

Most charities spend the money on salaries and other stuff and little goes directly to people.

[Anonymous]

What actual salary do these people get anyway? Minimum? What is the minimum in NYC vs LA vs Miami?

[Anonymous]

When I stay at a hotel, I usually ask the housekeeper on the first day “oh, are you here [until the end of my stay]? If they are, I hand them $20 on the spot. In some of those resorts in isolated areas, it really might be the same person every day. For the other folks, it’s about $5 a pop. If it’s a short stay and I have one wheelie suitcase, I don’t bother with the bellhop. When we’re taking the kids to a resort and we have a car full of extras that we need a cart, then we tip.