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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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![/quote]

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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I do hate the aggressive go towards the bellhop when I’m perfectly fine carrying my one bag![/quote]

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