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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh wait, yes you still tip when you check out. I usually give a 5 or 10, depending how much cash I have on me.

+1
We stayed 1 night and left a fiver. These people are working their butts off at a job with fewer and fewer staff to help them. It truly sucks. And a 1-night turnover is probably sucky.

Doesn’t this describe many minimum wage jobs?

Yup, and all minimum wage workers deserve to be paid more. I’m not a politician and have no way the make that happen but the least I can do is leave a decent tip for the minimum wage workers I engage with daily.

Note: When adjusted for inflation, the 2023 federal minimum wage in the United States is around 40 percent lower than the minimum wage in 1970.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes of course. I also don’t use it and too $10/minimum. They have to clean before and after you leave. With people on this site making way more than average, I think it’s pretty disgusting that some people wouldn’t tip at all. These house cleaners are working their asses off.

Do you also tip the people cleaning the hotel restaurants you dine in? Do you tip the dishwashers? Do you tip the lifeguards at the pool? They’re all working their asses off too.

[Anonymous]

For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

[Anonymous]

Fewer than 30% of hotel guests in the United States leave any tip for housekeepers, and that was a NYT survey taken *before* most hotels stopped daily housekeeping.

So I’d guess the figure is about 15% now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

It's always gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

It's always gone.

Where do you put it? Do you leave a note?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

It's always gone.

Where do you put it? Do you leave a note?

Either in the bedside table or on the desk/table. No note. They understand and take it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes of course. I also don’t use it and too $10/minimum. They have to clean before and after you leave. With people on this site making way more than average, I think it’s pretty disgusting that some people wouldn’t tip at all. These house cleaners are working their asses off.

Do you also tip the people cleaning the hotel restaurants you dine in? Do you tip the dishwashers? Do you tip the lifeguards at the pool? They’re all working their asses off too.

+1 Do you tip your Amazon delivery driver? What about the cashier at the grocery store? Or the attendant at the toll booth? Do you tip the janitors at your kids' schools? What about the people who clean your office building at night? Or the cooks at McDonald's? Do you tip the usher at the theater/arena? Do you tip the desk clerk at the motel? Or the security guard at the parking garage? Do you leave a tip for the cleaners when you stay in a VRBO?

If you think it is disgusting that people do not tip hotel housekeepers because they "are working their asses off," then you need to up your tipping game too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

I always leave a note with the cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I don’t tip for housekeeping. It’s not routine, customary, or necessary when staying in a hotel.

Tips are reserved for people who I have personally interacted with. The bellhop who asked about my day and delivered my bags to the room…. The valet who delivered my car at checkout and opened the doors for my kids.

Tips are for people who can mess with your stuff. That includes housekeeping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish there was a cashless way to tip housekeeping staff.

I just stayed at a Hyatt house that had this option. It was really convenient

[Anonymous]

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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.

You don’t have a working class background, do you? Don’t you know that the “exhoribant fees” go to multi-million dollar bonuses and perks for the executive team, and for stock buy-backs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fewer than 30% of hotel guests in the United States leave any tip for housekeepers, and that was a NYT survey taken *before* most hotels stopped daily housekeeping.

So I’d guess the figure is about 15% now.

Really? What a shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

I always leave a note with the cash.

I write “Gracias” on the little notepads and leave the cash on top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who leave cash in the room daily for housekeepers, do they always take it?

It seems like housekeeping would be trained not to touch cash that’s lying around in the room. Unless they know for sure it’s for them - like it’s in a marked envelope - I would imagine cash goes untouched?

I always leave a note with the cash.

+1. "For Housekeeping" If I need extra towels or other items, I also ask
for them in the note. I put the note by the sink or on the dresser.