Tim Ingersoll
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When in doubt - TIP! I gurantee that the housekeeping staff didn't see any part of that package price. The money will mean a lot more in the maid's pocket that it will to you. Just my two cents.
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Luckily, I'm rarely in doubt!Tim Ingersoll wrote...
When in doubt - TIP!
Those people wont' see any of that money.......Tip em!oking:included the maids tip and bell hops tip etc and it is written on our itenery
It's almost a given in San Francisco that parties of 5 or 6 or more at ANY service establishment are going to be hit by a 15-20% automatic gratuity charge - which you don't have the option of not paying, even if service sucks. It's not possible to partonise alternate venues, because everyone does it! So you're saying that this isn't always being passed on to staff?socaldiver once bubbled...
I work at a country club as a bartender. The club "adds" the gratuity automatically to the check, so a lot of the members don't tip. They assume that the bartender or server will get that tip, not so. We don't see it, we might get paid a little more on the hour but IMO if the club didn't add it into the price I think the tips would be more.
dvleemin once bubbled...
One thing that rarely seems to get brought up when this tipping questions come up, is that tipping in not a universal practice, but more a north american one. In Australia, if I'm correct, there is NO tipping.