Mighty Maid

Join Date 12/2007

Do you tip?

Your hotel housekeeper.

A tip is not included in the price of your room at most hotels. I was just wondering if you tip your hotel housekeeper. If you do, how much do you leave? When I go in to clean a room I am happy with 2 dollars or more. I think the 2 dollar tips are usually from a one night stay. The most I have recieved is like a 10 dollar tip in a room. I think as those as at least a 3 night stay.

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I'll leave 2 or 3 bucks, plus another 3 to 6 in pocket change I've accumulated per night. I know change is a pain but moneys money and I like to travel light.

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I agree with you about the change. It all adds up. I save my up my change, take it in when my change cup is full. Lo and behold you have 10 to 20 more dollars.

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KFC Kickin For Christ

Join Date 11/2005

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To be honest, I don't usually tip although I have done so before. What would you say is the percentage of those who tip vs those who don't?

I usually always help the maid out tho. I bundle the trash, throw out the used soap in the shower, put all the used towels together, wipe down the bathroom sink area with a used cloth or towel and pick up stray hairs even on the floor. I've even wiped down the toilet quite often with whatever's available even just tp.

I guess I just thought they get an hourly wage unlike waitresses who depend on their tips for pay and don't really think about it much.

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I have never tipped a maid. Ever. I didn't realize it was necessary or appropriate.

I think it's nice and considerate to tip, and I might consider doing it in the future now that I know, but honestly, it's getting to where if someone so little as smiles at you you're expected to tip them.

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Honestly, I have never tipped a maid. Maybe it's something I should consider next time I stay at a hotel (which hasn't been very much).

We are pretty good at tipping at restaurants, though. UDigIt is my tipping calculator...lol. He can figure out tips in a matter of seconds.

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I tip. Also, if the room service has been extra good or if I asked for something that was a hassle I will leave a bigger tip. I usually leave it on the day I check out though.

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Actually, there is no tipping in Japan but I don't usually stay in a hotel here.

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On a good day maybe 2 out of 10 rooms tip a really good day would be 5 out of 10 rooms!
When I come into a room where a guest has tidied up for me, I don't worry about a tip. That shows me they either have been a housekeeper and the job is not as easy as some people think or they are very thoughtful and making my day a little easier. As to the hourly wage for housekeepers, it depends on the hotel you work at. I have learned that some hotels pay you a set amount for each room but I don't know how much that would be.

I never really thought about leaving maids tip myself until I became one. lol I can understand for the rare hotel guest not leaving tips though. Alot of people don't think to tip the maid. They don't show that in Hollywood movies, it is always the bell boy holding out his and and doing the throat clearing cough that gets it. Curses to the bell boys!

All in all I look at tips as happy little surprises in my day.

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I never thought of it. But I will in the future.

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Can't help it. You're talking tips, it must be posted. And viewed.

I know you're talking about another type of tipping, but still . . . classic Steve Buscemi.

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I love this scene in Resevoir Dogs. I love Steve Buscemi as an actor too. He is great in every thing he does in my opinion.

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He is great in every thing he does in my opinion.

Ew!

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Ew!

I know he is not much to look at. He is not just another Hollywood pretty face. He actually has to work at his craft to get the parts he does get. He is in alot of movies, but almost always as a supporting character. Yet some of those characters are more memorable than the leading character. He also does voices for animated feature length movies too such as "Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within" and "Monsters INc."

oh yes we are suppose to be talking about tipping your hotel housekeeper. Sorry I get distracted sometimes and go off on tangents as my husband says. Thanks for the distaraction SanChonino and DR. Guy.

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Years back when I played in team pool tournaments my team and I would play poker in our hotel rooms. Not for big money the most you could bet or raise was a dollar. There would be a lot of change and most guys would hate pennies so they would just leave them on the table when we were finished. I'm now wondering if housekeeping thought they were tips when all they were was penny bigotry.

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Sorry I get distracted sometimes and go off on tangents as my husband says. Thanks for the distaraction SanChonino

The more you hang out around here, Mighty Maid, you'll realize that if you want a topic derailed, I'm your guy.

I'll take the comments section of an article off on a tangent faster than anyone. It's my specialty.

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I keep all pennies. I have nothing against them. Although we do segregate our pennies. Any penny minted after 1982 no longer has copper in it so they go in a seperate jar to be spent. The older pennies are saved to pass down to the kids as collector pennies. Who knows someday my birth year penny might be worth alot more than a penny.

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I'll take the comments section of an article off on a tangent faster than anyone. It's my specialty.

Sometimes the best conversations are started off in a tangent.

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I always toss down a coupla bucks. I do appreciate the work you guys do!

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I'm just wondering, it is not that I don't tip; but I have to wonder...
Where does giving someone extra money for doing what they are already paid for stop?
I wouldn't normally even ask, but I noticed on a menu at a restaurant I went to last week that a gratuity is automatically added for parties of 8 or more. While it has always irked me that such a thing would be automatically added, I never dine in that large of a group so it doesn't matter; what caught my attention was that the gratuity was now 18%. When did this happen? If you figure only $20 a person on average, that is roughly a $30 tip. Now if the group stays there a whole two hours, that means a $15/hour tip. I didn't more than that an hour until after graduating college.

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Just a tip about tipping your hotel housekeeper. You may want to tip on a daily basis if you stay for an extended stay. Your room may not be cleaned by the same housekeeper every day.

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If you do, how much do you leave?

Yes, I tip. There's usually a little envelope, signed by the cleaner, for that purpose. I usually tip a dollar a day. (I'm using the more generic "cleaner" because I've frequently had male room cleaners and "maid" just doesn't feel right.)

You may want to tip on a daily basis if you stay for an extended stay. Your room may not be cleaned by the same housekeeper every day.

That's why I tip every day.

I once didn't remember to leave a tip till I was on the way to the elevators to check out and the cleaner was already in the room. The guys in the hall were shocked when I walked up to the guy cleaning my room, apologized, and handed him a couple bucks.

Tip: $2. Shocked cleaning crew's expression: Priceless.

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(I'm using the more generic "cleaner" because I've frequently had male room cleaners and "maid" just doesn't feel right.)

"Cleaner" makes it sound like a hitman for hire. lol

"Bob and Mary are our best cleaners. We will send them up right away to tidy up your room right away. " said Executive Hotel Housekeeper.

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No, as a general rule I don't tip - I've already had to pay the price of the service in the bill, and that will(or should) include staff costs - I shouldn't have to pay more to receive a satisfactory service, just as I wouldn't expect to have to tip any other company/person that I purchase a good or service from if they do their job.

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FYI, waitresses do NOT make minimum wage. They are, by law, required to make minimum wage when the tip is added to their $2-$3 per hour, or the restaurant has to make up the difference. But, they work mostly for tips to make up that gap. I always tip, but the amount always depends on the service.

I'm staying in a hotel right now, but I haven't tipped yet. I was going to do it on my last night, but now I might not because I don't want to give one cleaner a windfall. Also, they keep moving around stuff that I put in places for a reason. If I wanted to have the tissue box in the bathroom, I would have left it in the bathroom. Really. If you want to put a tissue box in the bathroom, do so, but leave the other one!

Also, I didn't have any cash...

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