How much do you leave for hotel housekeeping?

[Anonymous]

As always, so many cheapskates on DCUM….I tip $10 per night, $20 if it is just a one night stay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As always, so many cheapskates on DCUM….I tip $10 per night, $20 if it is just a one night stay

I don't feel it's my responsibility to make up for it if rich international hotel chains refuse to pay living wages for their employees. It's between the employers and employees, or employers, employees and the government.

And it's not like hotel rates in this country are unreasonably cheap. The hotel can spare more than minimum wages for room service staff out of the money they are charging.

[Anonymous]

$5/day. Sometimes $10

[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.

I agree. People feel compelled to tip when they have to look the person in the eye, but ignore the women who do the hard work in the background. I usually leave $5/day, but after reading this thread I think I'll start bumping it up ... both due to inflation and realizing how many people don't tip at all.

Related question: do people leave the day's tip each day, or one larger tip at the end? I prefer leaving some each day, but don't always have small bills. And sometimes (due to kid schedules etc) we leave the Do Not Disturb sign on and just have one cleaning at the end, in which case we just leave one tip for the whole visit. If someone brings us fresh towels I'll hand that person $5 directly.

[Anonymous]

I leave 5/day

[Anonymous]

I do $5 a day for a regular room also

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$5/day. Sometimes $10

This.

But I'll admit sometimes I forget. I try to leave it daily (vs all at once) because different people clean each day. But I often don't have the cash or the right bills available. I try to remember to bring lots of bills when I travel or I'll ask the front desk to make change so I can leave a tip before I leave the room each morning.

Now that so much has gone cashless, I wish there was a simple way to access cash while at a hotel to tip the staff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As always, so many cheapskates on DCUM….I tip $10 per night, $20 if it is just a one night stay

Do you also tip your Walmart/Target cashier? They do not make much money either. How about the cashier at the grocery store? Or the person changing the oil in your car? I assume that you always tip 10-20% on your takeout order from Starbucks, Baja Fresh, Panera, McDonald's, Mod Pizza, etc.

[Anonymous]

What service are you tipping for? Are your rooms being cleaned during your stay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As always, so many cheapskates on DCUM….I tip $10 per night, $20 if it is just a one night stay

Do you also tip your Walmart/Target cashier? They do not make much money either. How about the cashier at the grocery store? Or the person changing the oil in your car? I assume that you always tip 10-20% on your takeout order from Starbucks, Baja Fresh, Panera, McDonald's, Mod Pizza, etc.

PP, just admit it, you are a cheapskate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow all you folks who don’t tip housekeepers are cold blooded!

They are usually women and make minimum wage. The job is hard. I am happy to tip $5/night (when solo on business travel) and go up to $10 when it’s a family stay in a suite or something.

Also, work with folks who are in the hotel biz (I am in CRE) and all the hotel folks tip.

Terrible karma not to

Karma isn’t a real thing. You know that, right?

Meh. I totally believe in karma. You put bad energy out in the world, you’ll get bad energy back. Uplift and make people feel good - you’ll get some of that back also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As always, so many cheapskates on DCUM….I tip $10 per night, $20 if it is just a one night stay

Do you also tip your Walmart/Target cashier? They do not make much money either. How about the cashier at the grocery store? Or the person changing the oil in your car? I assume that you always tip 10-20% on your takeout order from Starbucks, Baja Fresh, Panera, McDonald's, Mod Pizza, etc.

PP, just admit it, you are a cheapskate.

Yes, I am cheap. But, regardless, do you tip at WalMart, McDonald's, Target, Jiffy Lube, etc?

[Anonymous]

I'm sure most PPs here disagree, but I think tipping actually allows this system to continue where businesses get away with paying too little. I think these women you claim to care so much about should get an agreed-upon amount on their bank account on an agreed-upon date, paid by their employer, and not have to rely on 'kindness of strangers' in order to get enough money to live on.

But yeah, of course, I'm a cheapskate/ wasn't raised right / bla bla blah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure most PPs here disagree, but I think tipping actually allows this system to continue where businesses get away with paying too little. I think these women you claim to care so much about should get an agreed-upon amount on their bank account on an agreed-upon date, paid by their employer, and not have to rely on 'kindness of strangers' in order to get enough money to live on.

But yeah, of course, I'm a cheapskate/ wasn't raised right / bla bla blah.

This. By not tipping, hotels will have to actually pay more not to lose staff to other jobs. If the hotel wants to build the raise into my rate, that’s fine, but it’s their to job to pay the cleaners, not mine. I actually wish restaurants would do this too, like in Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure most PPs here disagree, but I think tipping actually allows this system to continue where businesses get away with paying too little. I think these women you claim to care so much about should get an agreed-upon amount on their bank account on an agreed-upon date, paid by their employer, and not have to rely on 'kindness of strangers' in order to get enough money to live on.

But yeah, of course, I'm a cheapskate/ wasn't raised right / bla bla blah.

This. By not tipping, hotels will have to actually pay more not to lose staff to other jobs. If the hotel wants to build the raise into my rate, that’s fine, but it’s their to job to pay the cleaners, not mine. I actually wish restaurants would do this too, like in Europe.

Amen to this. Tipping has gone too far, and you know who benefits from the structure? Business owners. Not customers. Not employees.