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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never tipped housekeeping staff at a hotel ever.

Nothing stated here changes my mind. I don't tip the guys who collect my garbage other than to give them a gift at Christmas. Neither do I tip the guy who repairs my car although working on my car can be messy.

The good news is that this nutty belief that [b]more and more categories of workers should get tipped[/b] is a view held by fairly small minority of the population.[/quote]

Tipping hotel staff isn't a new thing. If you don't want to tip at the coffee shop or the take-out counter at the deli, I don't blame you. [b]But don't pretend that tipping hotel staff isn't customary in the U.S. It is. [/b]

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Don't know who you are including in "hotel staff" but the statistics do not show that tipping housekeeping  is "customary".

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/24/hotel.housekeeping.tipping/[/url]

An excerpt:

[i]Survey data shows that about 30% of U.S. hotel guests leave tips for hotel housekeepers, according to Michael Lynn, a professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.[/i][/quote]

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