How much do you leave for hotel housekeeping?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While i agreed that tipping is out of control lately, hotel housekeeping has always been a place where it’s expected (just like sit-down restaurants). I usually leave $5 per cleaning or $5-10 at the end of the stay if we don’t use housekeeping. Nobody hesitates to give bellhops (usually men) a tip for 5 minutes of work but the question tipping housekeeping (usually women), with each room taking 20-30 minutes.

I don’t use or tip bellhops. And I don’t use valet if there is any other alternative.

[Anonymous]

$5 for any day I have them come in to clean the room. I almost always have out the do not disturb sign. So if I’m staying two nights and they only come in after I leave, $5. If I stayed a week and had them come in twice, $10 total.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While i agreed that tipping is out of control lately, hotel housekeeping has always been a place where it’s expected (just like sit-down restaurants). I usually leave $5 per cleaning or $5-10 at the end of the stay if we don’t use housekeeping. Nobody hesitates to give bellhops (usually men) a tip for 5 minutes of work but the question tipping housekeeping (usually women), with each room taking 20-30 minutes.

Huh? I don’t think it’s ever been expected to tip housekeeping the way you tip servers.

Not 20% for sure, but it’s been expected to leave a few bucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While i agreed that tipping is out of control lately, hotel housekeeping has always been a place where it’s expected (just like sit-down restaurants). I usually leave $5 per cleaning or $5-10 at the end of the stay if we don’t use housekeeping. Nobody hesitates to give bellhops (usually men) a tip for 5 minutes of work but the question tipping housekeeping (usually women), with each room taking 20-30 minutes.

I don’t use or tip bellhops. And I don’t use valet if there is any other alternative.

+1 I do not tip at hotels. I also do not tip when getting a sandwich at Subway or a bowl at Cava. I do not tip the garbage collectors, postal workers, or Amazon delivery people. I do tip 20-25% when dining at a restaurant and tip 20% for haircuts.

[Anonymous]

I don't tip at hotels. I figure it is built in to the cost of the hotel - of which there are many many extra costs added to my original quoted price per night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t. It’s included in the (crazy) price of hotels. We are neat and clean and if we could restock the room ourselves, we would.

Do you change the sheets on those heavy mattresses too? I leave about $5-10 a night, but there was a thread where others left more?

New flash - they dont change your sheets every night on those "heavy" mattresses.

[Anonymous]

Zero for the purpose of your question. We only tip housekeeping overseas, during longer stays, or of course, onboard ships. Several reasons. Hotel prices are ridiculously overpriced. We have no housekeeping services on short stays, 1-3 nighters. You can grab fresh towels from the cart, and drop off used ones. We leave the room as we found it. The cleaning of hotel rooms here is very cursory (definitely not sanitary), and that’s putting it mildly, regardless of hotel brand.

[Anonymous]

I don't tip for one night stays or stays where they do not clean/freshen my room each day (which seems to be the norm since Covid.)

It's funny that several posts have mentioned tipping housekeeping as a way to get money to low income women; the vast majority of housekeeping staff I have seen and interacted with recently have been men.

[Anonymous]

$1pp/night in an average room. $5pp/night if in suite or luxury hotel.

[Anonymous]

i tip directly if i see them cleaning my room. around $5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t. It’s included in the (crazy) price of hotels. We are neat and clean and if we could restock the room ourselves, we would.

I feel passionate about this topic. Valet and baggage service providers (usually men) regularly receive excellent tips. The women scrubbing toilets and changing the sheets get little. I leave about $5 per day[b].

+1 -- For most people posting here, $5/day is nothing, but for these women it means a lot. They're paid minimum wage or even less, if there's a tipped wage option for employers in that jurisdiction, and they're trying to support their families. Come on, you're on a vacation spending oodles of $ and you can't think of other human beings who aren't as fortunate as you are? That's who you want to be and model for your kids?

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of tipping at a regular hotel. I've tipped on cruises, all inclusives, and Disney resorts where it's suggested up front. It has never occurred to me to tip at a Holiday Inn or similar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to work at a hotel chain that rhymes with chariot. I know that the housekeeping used the wet towels left on the floor by guests to wipe down everything including toilets, sinks, showers, coffee pots, cups etc. Cleaners regularly wet the mops in the toilet bowl to mop floors.

The first thing I do is inspect the bed to see that the mattress and sheets are not soiled. Next check the edges and crevices of the mattress and beds. Bedbugs have a mild stinkbug smell and they congregate in the crevices. Also, they will leave little brown specks on the mattress or sheets so check for that. I also wipe down everything with Lysol wipes, and wash the cups and coffee mugs etc with some dish soap that I carry. Finally, lysol the remote, switches, phone, alarm, door handles. They are not sanitizing anything because they have very little time to clean each room. And some guests are slobs and it takes them longer to clean that up.

I don't want house cleaning to come and clean my room because they will make every thing contaminated again. So, I only ask for clean towels and toiletries. I also like to keep my room clean and beds made. This allows me to not lose track of possessions or leave something in the room. There is a lot of stealing that happens so it is better to not have anyone come inside your room.

You and I could be friends lol!!!I have the same routine. Check for BB and clean. I always bring wipes and lysol and clean the WHOLE room, clean and BAG the remote. Once you know how they DONT sanitize or clean the rooms well you won't ever trust it. I then throw the DO NOT DISTURB sign on the door and leave it there my whole stay. The room is cleaner then when I came. Also Marriott they don't even vacuum any of the rooms anymore! Nasty.

And I no longer tip for many reasons as stated above, they (Marriott) are no longer cleaning daily (said it was because of covid but haven't gone back yet) still closed the pool and gym (although I wouldn't go anyway) charges $35 for parking, No hot breakfast anymore, night time lobby snacks either, loss of all amenities yet I'm paying $200+ a night? No tip. Sorry, not sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$5/day, left every day (not all at checkout) because it can be different staff each day.

Good point about possibly increasing, OP. I haven't increased this amount in probably a decade, so maybe I'm low these days.

My mom worked her way through college as a motel housekeeper, so tipping was drilled into me.

This makes perfect sense and I will start tipping daily with my next trip.
We checked out of a Ritz Residence Club just yesterday (a Sunday). We left $50 for the maid and it occurred to me that there was a very good chance it wasn’t the same maid we had all week. Why should she benefit from the work of a coworker?
I definitely will tip daily going forward.

[Anonymous]

Housekeepers at hotels in union cities earn far more than you suspect.