S/O: Do you tip the cleaning employees at a hotel - Page 2

Yes, if we stay for over a day or two.  

I always leave the room very tidy, so I don't see much of a point in it for a one night stay.

yes I always do. 

Yes. Every day that we're there. 

Yes, I normally leave $5 on the pillow each day.  If we require additional towels or pillows I tip the person that brings them to us. 

Yes we do, although we went to a very nice hotel this weekend in Vegas and found out there was no hand soap!  There was shampoo, lotion and body wash but no hand soap at the sink.  Also there were 3 of us and only two glasses were by the ice bucket.  We called and they did bring up hand soap, plus an extra glass.  Yet, the next day, the cleaner replaced the glasses with fresh - but only 2.

I left her $5 for two nights and considered that generous since really the basics weren't covered.

No. I don't.

I don't usually tip. I like keeping our rooms tidy so there isn't anything extra that I would need. I agree with Karen, if that's their job and they're not going out of their way, then what's the point of the extra $$. 

I just had to post that I've never heard of 'not' leaving anything, just like at a restaurant.  If I got lousy service, I would just leave a dollar so they would know I thought they had lousy service.  I'm not trying to judge, just that I've never heard of that.  I always remember my mom leaving the hotel cleaning service something, plus my aunt did cleaning while her kids were in school and I know it's not an easy job at all, so I guess I just grew up expecting to.

However, I've always left the $$ the day we leave, not each individual day.  When we were in Disney 1 left $3 a day for every day were were there (there are 3 of us) but I left it all at the end.  I'm a neat nick too so we always straightened everything and kept it neat, didn't leave towels lying about etc.

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Originally Posted by aliadam 


Well technically the two are different. Wait staff in a restaurant are paid an hourly rate that is usually below minimum wage. It is assumed that their wages come from the tips (at least that's how I think it works.....I've never done either). Housekeeping staff is paid an hourly rate that is above minimum wage (or at). So while I think it's nice if people want to leave a tip, I don't feel it's necessary like I do in a restaurant. We tip WELL in a restaurant. I know I've talked before about how years ago we were regulars at a restaurant and ate there weekly. The wait staff would argue over who got us as a table because they all knew my DH tipped so well. So it's not that I mind tipping, I just don't feel it's necessary in a hotel until I ask them to do something special for me, and then I do tip.

I just used that as an example of something I would tip for, I wasn't actually comparing the two.  Like I would tip for a hairdresser, for the coat person at a party center, etc.  I didn't mean to compare the two jobs.  I just meant that is something that I would  tip for if I got good service and was surprised when I saw others didn't.  I just grew up with it and took it as a given.

 Again, having my aunt work in housekeeping and knowing how pressed for time they are (I always say the lowest paying jobs are by far the hardest ones) I guess I feel for the chambermaids.  I know my aunt would get thrown an astounding amount of rooms to clean in half the time she needed to clean them properly in.  So I guess I  just have a soft spot for the chambermaids.

 As an aside, and not that it really relates to the OP at all, but my aunt was an RN that cleaned hotel rooms during the day to help with family expenses.  When the kids got older she worked for years and years as the head RN at a nursing home.  I always think about her when I'm in a hotel, because she was putting money aside for her kids, so in my mind (since I've also worked part time for my kid) I just relate the two.  Doesn't mean a hill of beans to anyone else, but it does to me