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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also got a lot of dirt on the guide's prior celebrity clients. Apparently, Mariah was the worst, but he loved Brittany.[/quote]

This simply did not happen. [/quote]

Not PP but I’m inclined to believe it. Our safari guide (white SA) loved bragging about the A list celebs they guided.   [/quote]

The Disney VIP guides are consummate professionals. This is not a celebrity homes tour in LA. They would be fired for what pp is saying. [/quote]

Please. I’m guessing you’ve never been on a VIP tour or if you have, got one of the few oldies still left.

Most of the guides are in their 20s and are working hard for that 20% tip so they’ll say what they think you want to hear. Their base pay is only $20/hour. Tips is where some of them hit 6 figures. [/quote]

I do not pay a tip anywhere near 20% when I do this.  I am paying $3000-5000 for a one day service, plus park tickets.  Disney can find ample resources to pay the guides from this fee.  I tip $200.[/quote]

That is way below normal for tip.  Like way below normal.  We tip more like $800.  [/quote]

Why would you need to tip $100 an hour for a service for which you already pay (and what you are paying for is already [u]just[/u] the person's time) $450-950 an hour?[/quote]

Nothing about tipping is rational.  It’s all social norms.  And the norm for VIp tour at WDW is either 20% of cost, or cost of an hour tour.  The guides get paid the basic disney rate — they are very good, very well trained, and are working for the tips.  Your argument is basically like — if you go to an expensive restaurant, why should you tip the server?  Because that’s the thing to do.  If you are spending that kind of money on a tour but don’t have the money to appropriately tip your guide, who are mostly hard working you folk saving up for grad school or a house, you need to reexamine your priorities.  [/quote]

How would you know the "norm" of what is paid by various groups?  [/quote]

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