Do you tip at your resort?

[cancundish Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close cancundish]

I have a couple questions as I think this forum is interesting.

Many people mention exchange fees when arguing why they should not tip. What does an exchange fee have to do with the local resort operations?

If free transportation were not offered to the maids to the resorts in the mountains of Lake Tahoe would you have maids? If the answer is no then that is simply the cost of doing business.

I am unsure what the difference is between a bartender and a maid is. As a homeowner you are paying the maids salary and by nature she/he does not need tips you feel he/she is fairly compensated. With a bartender/waiter should the restaurant then not be compensating said bartender/waiter fairly such as you are with the low paid maid?

With regards to the $20 fee to change sheets. I guarantee that the maid did not see 1 penny of that but, that increased the operating budget of your HOA. I can not say that I remember or have cash to tip every time I stay in a hotel but, I certainly try to take care of the maid as in my opinion she has the worst job of all.

[PHILL12 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PHILL12]

I have a couple questions as I think this forum is interesting.

If free transportation were not offered to the maids to the resorts in the mountains of Lake Tahoe would you have maids? If the answer is no then that is simply the cost of doing business.

YES!

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

This thread has gone the way it has almost always gone the last ten years.

The person asking the question, and others, have learned that it is not inappropriate to tip resort employees. In fact, many employees at resorts are working in service, tip-receiving positions.

(Yes, sometimes it is confusing as to which ones are in tip positions and which ones are not.)

Then, others have shown the various ways that different people regard other human beings. Some are understanding and supportive of others, while some seem to be constantly holding others to some sort of personal standard of performance.

Yes, in my summer job, that is, in fact, the way it is in real life.

To make it simple, when vacationing, if you feel someone has done something for you to make your vacation better, to make you feel better, return the favor however you feel you should.

[cancundish Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close cancundish]

Well then I would eliminate the free transportation seems totally unnecessary to me!

[PHILL12 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PHILL12]

Well then I would eliminate the free transportation seems totally unnecessary to me!

I think one of the main reason is so they don't have all those cars parked at the Ridge.

Many do drive and park outside the main gate and ride shuttle up to the Ridge (about 1000 feet) though.

Not sure about the Tahoe side but bottom of the hill leaving Gardenerville area they park their cars there and shuttle picks up and drops off at end of the day.

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

Getting back to the OP, and since I've been away...

I just got back from Samoset. No extra fees. One midweek towel change. I would have left $10, but didn't have any small change. We left $20, though I think it was too much, but better than nothing.

At the Manhattan Club, with it ridiculous "hospitality fee" totalling $175 for a week in a 1 bedroom, I leave a chintzy tip with a note apologizing for the cheap tip but explaining that it would be much more generous if not for the fee, which, according to the MC, includes daily housekeeping, though I know the maids see none of it.

At other t/s w/daily housekeeping, I leave at least $5/day, usually more, depending on how many days I actually stayed.

Gurney's charges an extra fee, but they say it's for the spa and other amenities, so I have tipped the housekeeping staff there, around $5/day. When the fee goes up to $30/day, I will cut back on the tip since I don't even like the spa there, if there is any Gurney's left to trade into

[Mybobalong Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mybobalong]

I remember my mom always left a 2 dollar bill under her pillow when we checkout of our hotel rooms in my younger days.Now we stay in a condo instead of a hotel room so I would leave $10 for the maids at the 5 star resorts but leave $20 at the smaller no star resorts and I would even put all the glasses and dishes in the dishwasher and start the washing cycle before I go......

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Contrary to deceptive reports otherwise, I/we have always been very good rules-followers. We do whatever they tell us to.

I spose with the caveat that the rules be reasonable and proper.

I would even put all the glasses and dishes in the dishwasher and start the washing cycle before I go......

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

Yes, I tip everyone and do a mini clean up; dishes in washer, towels in bathtub, etc.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Just to show the way it goes, when a regular arrived the other day, one of the kids working with me made the off-hand comment, "They never tip."

A few minutes later the husband slipped a wadded up bill into my hand, gesturing something about how much they appreciate all of us. I just stuck it in my pocket, without looking at it, saying the same, "I appreciate it," I say to everyone.

When I took it out to put it in our tip jar, it was a $20.

Another of the guys I work with said something the other day about another regular seeming to have quit tipping. He's given me $5 twice since then.

I guess some who work in tip positions notice who does and who doesn't. The end result seems to be the same, or thereabouts, regardless of who does and who doesn't. However much is in the tip jar is however much is in the tip jar.

Sorta like recycling the aluminum cans, that regardless of who does or doesn't toss them in the recycling bin, as long as someone does, they get in there.

And since I've gone there, quite often a customer wandering by asks, "Got a place for aluminum?"

That warms my heart cockles.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Those at our establishment pride ourselves on providing a vastly different experience than other establishments of our nature, one in which we attempt to assure that the customer is treated better than well from the time they pull into the parking lot until they leave. Even some of our new regulars are glazed and amazed by the attentiveness.

We also have regular, every day customers who do not desire that level of attention. There are ways they communicate that, without mentioning tips, and we try to be attentive to their desire for lack of service.

It can be a tightrope act, providing that extra level of service to one person while another walks right by, not getting it, by design.