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pcqueen
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Hi There!
I've been reading up on cruising, in anticipation of my upcoming, first cruise. and have a few questions about this tipping thing and how it is different on the "free style" cruising. thank you for any and all insight...
let me just say that i was a waitress for 8 years so I am a good tipper...lol
I just want to understand. I read "somewhere" the 'suggested' tipping amounts are busboy: $2/pppd, waiter: $3.50 pppd, Room Steward: $3.50 pppd, and maitre d: $1.50 pppd.
Now, with freestyle cruising I wouldn't imagine you'd have the same waiter and busboy every day...so how does that tipping work? Do you tip them after every meal instead? (hardly convenient) And what about a Maitre D'? Do you even have a maitre d' with freestyle?
And how about room service? How does the tipping work for that? Is it your room steward who brings it to you so you can just take into account your room service utilization when tipping him/her a the end of the week? Or does this standard include your using room service? Which is what I'm assuming. Because when you add it up - $49 does seem like a rather large tip for cleaning the room for a week. After a week in a hotel, a $20 is usually a sufficient tip, no?
and what about the bar tenders?? Do they really just add 15% percent onto the cost of every drink? I'd so much rather tip my bartender cash, in person. (but maybe this rule is so they don't treat us good-tippers, better? as they do in resorts?) Just seems weird, especially since we'd just charge the drinks to our room...meaning that right bartender may not get the right tip when it all flushes out at the end of the week.
As you can see i'm just a bit confused about all this - and want to make sure the right people are getting tipped the right amount!
TIA!
pcqueen
=)
I've been reading up on cruising, in anticipation of my upcoming, first cruise. and have a few questions about this tipping thing and how it is different on the "free style" cruising. thank you for any and all insight...
let me just say that i was a waitress for 8 years so I am a good tipper...lol
I just want to understand. I read "somewhere" the 'suggested' tipping amounts are busboy: $2/pppd, waiter: $3.50 pppd, Room Steward: $3.50 pppd, and maitre d: $1.50 pppd.
Now, with freestyle cruising I wouldn't imagine you'd have the same waiter and busboy every day...so how does that tipping work? Do you tip them after every meal instead? (hardly convenient) And what about a Maitre D'? Do you even have a maitre d' with freestyle?
And how about room service? How does the tipping work for that? Is it your room steward who brings it to you so you can just take into account your room service utilization when tipping him/her a the end of the week? Or does this standard include your using room service? Which is what I'm assuming. Because when you add it up - $49 does seem like a rather large tip for cleaning the room for a week. After a week in a hotel, a $20 is usually a sufficient tip, no?
and what about the bar tenders?? Do they really just add 15% percent onto the cost of every drink? I'd so much rather tip my bartender cash, in person. (but maybe this rule is so they don't treat us good-tippers, better? as they do in resorts?) Just seems weird, especially since we'd just charge the drinks to our room...meaning that right bartender may not get the right tip when it all flushes out at the end of the week.
As you can see i'm just a bit confused about all this - and want to make sure the right people are getting tipped the right amount!
TIA!
pcqueen
=)
