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[quote=Anonymous]Also FYI for people that haven’t cruises before….historically the tips that are included in your price are the bare minimum.  It’s typically to give at least a $100 in cash to your cabin steward and your waiter at the end of the week.

Also for those of you worried about labor conditions, how many of you check the unionized status of your hotel before you book?  The hotel and restaurant workers union posts a list.  Hotel cleaners are some of the most underpaid, overworked and disrespected workers in this country and the ones that aren’t unionized have very few rights and basically no advocate.  Their workload are a lot worse than the workload of cabin stewards on the cruise ships—hotels have so much turnover in guests they know no one will really complain.  On a cruise ship, there is much more individualized attention so the cabin stewards have fewer rooms to manage and actual downtime built in to the schedule so that if guests want to find them and ask for something that’s a possibility.  Hotel cleaning staff don’t even have downtime to use the restroom, really — their room quotas are awful.

The truth is that the global economy is built on income inequality and exploitation.  We all draw certain lines as a consumer about what we are willing to tolerate and not, while hopefully doing what we can as individuals to mitigate it.

The environmental issues with cruising are, to me, more problematic as compared with other types of leisure activities.[/quote]

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