Once we stayed at a Springhill suites and left a $10 tip for a 2 night stay. Then we checked out and I remembered I left something behind. I went back to the room, and the supervisor was there already looking over the room, and the tip was gone.
Me too. I have never received one at any of the MVC and Vistana properties.
I mentioned it in my post because it was the first time since 2000 when I first started timesharing 2 - 3 x a year. I usually tip well. But I don.t like being asked, which the envelpoe does.
We had one in the villa at St Kitts a couple weeks ago.
We do not leave a tip for any of the above Marriott's staff departments. But if anyone goes beyond their normal job duties. We do include their excellent service in our follow up survey to Marriott management staff.
What if management pays housekeeping a wage that assumes they'll be getting tips? Should they be penalized by you because they were accessible for tipping? I would be glad if tipping wasn't expected anywhere, except for exceptional service, but that's just what our odd society has accepted as the norm.
Housekeeping shouldn't be getting a tipped wage. That is only reserved for very few professions. Also, if they are getting a lower wage based on receiving tips, that issue is between them and their employer. Not between them and me.
Haha, spoken like a true European. Oops, I forgot you are not part of Europe anymore.
There's quite a difference between Europe (~49 countries) and the EU (26 countries).
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Philosophically that is my thought as well, though there are locations where tipping housekeeping is the standard and others where it is not and we do adhere to the standards where we are. If one is comparing to hotels in the US, at the last time I investigated it's roughly 50/50 of those that where pay is assuming tips, but I am not aware of any timeshares in the US where timing is part of the formal pay structure. Thus I do not tip as a routine. However, if they do something special above and beyond or we leave a mess, we will often tip. Normally we're trying to make it as easy as possibly by stripping beds, pilling towels near the door (not in the way), emptying trash, running DW and the like.
..."timing is part of the formal pay structure" -- what is timing housekeeping? Did you mean tipping rather than timing?
typo combined with autocorrect.
Some include daily cleaning but not many, a few include mid week service. Daily tipping might affect my choices but not my philosophy, midweek service would nto.
Yes, yes. I was trying to be too clever meaning to say the EU.
