Should you tip the maids/cleaning staff what ever the PC term is these days in hotels?
Now let me qualify this... I travel for business a lot. I generally tip well and since Sept. 11, I have tried to go well over that 15% marker especially when in airports. I do so love to take care of the people servicing me (wink), however find it difficult to pay several dollars a week every week to have my bed made. When I am on a pleasure trip I make sure to take care of them, but on business I shy away from that sort of tip. My thinking is I am doing what I can to keep everyone in a job by spending a couple hundred nights a year in hotels all over the place. Ok, so back to the point...should you tip or better yet how many people do and don't tip their fabulous cleaning staff. Oh, and if any of them are reading now, my room has been great this week the folks here at the &@^#* Hotel are really taking care of me this week.
Now let me qualify this... I travel for business a lot. I generally tip well and since Sept. 11, I have tried to go well over that 15% marker especially when in airports. I do so love to take care of the people servicing me (wink), however find it difficult to pay several dollars a week every week to have my bed made. When I am on a pleasure trip I make sure to take care of them, but on business I shy away from that sort of tip. My thinking is I am doing what I can to keep everyone in a job by spending a couple hundred nights a year in hotels all over the place. Ok, so back to the point...should you tip or better yet how many people do and don't tip their fabulous cleaning staff. Oh, and if any of them are reading now, my room has been great this week the folks here at the &@^#* Hotel are really taking care of me this week.
