Tipping front desk

[BRF]

Hola! I have been a member at my timeshare for 20 years. Royal holiday recently bought Raintree Vacation Club. I was given a room with an awful view. I didn’t realize it I until I unpacked. I didn’t ask for a room change. A member said that they tip front desk $300 USD if they want a room with a better view.

Do most people tip front desk at check in?
Thank you!

 

[Eggrollcreative]

Bahamas: shorted towels in the unit, asked for the missing towels but didn’t know I needed to tip to get them…three days later still no towels, asking again got smiles and nods that’s it. Asked for salt shaker, went to sprinkle salt on food and lid came off and salt poured off. In Mexico at all inclusive, “gratuities included” I didn’t add tip at dinner and had three waitstaff chewing me out telling me how the gratuities get spread out to everyone and watered down and take two months to get them and a 10% tip is expected. USA-Orlando, restaurant adds 20% service charge to “elevate your experience” and that does not include the tip. It’s so out of hand I don’t even enjoy going out. Just pay people and don’t expect me to supplement their paycheck based on my arbitrary experience that day. I worked as a guide on a railroad pedal cart and my coworker was obsessed with tips, thought everyone should give 20%. He would really melt down sometimes. Dude, go learn a skill and earn the money you need. I hear there is a shortage of electricians these days.

 

[T-Dot-Traveller]

Hi @BRF ,
I have never tipped the front desk at a Mexican resort at check in .We also have always accepted the unit given
I have tipped the front desk for other reasons over the course of a stay. One time at a resort in Puerto Vallarta we were upgraded
to a larger unit without asking .[ I believe the larger unit became available because someone checking in did not want to be in that specific building # 6]
I subsequently tipped the front desk person.

We do tip the housekeeping staff [ 80-100 pesos a day] I also try to make sure the housekeeper who fills in for others on their day off gets tipped.
We were at Raintree Club Regina Puerto Vallarta a couple of weeks ago via RCI.The unit's weekly housekeeper had Thursday off and two
young ladies working together did the cleaning - mopped the floors and replaced towels that day . We tipped them 70 pesos each and they seemed
thrilled. [ My guess is that their pay is about 300 pesos a day / I base this on a hiring sign I saw in 2025 at a Puchugon Rotisserie Chicken store ]

Here is my take on room assignments during peak season for any resort anywhere .
[For Puerto Vallarta / Mexico this includes all of snowbird season and especially February]

The room assignments are dependent on who checked out of what units that morning !!
At the Puerto Vallarta Raintree Club Regina there are many members staying for multiple weeks; and so
their units [which likely include the Raintree Blue units] only become available every 3-8 weeks.


Our best room assignment ever was about 4 years ago when we checked into the Mayan Palace PV Marina location in February
PS -My wife had just turned down the presentation while I was doing the front desk paperwork. We were assigned a 4th floor one bedroom overlooking the beach
[ Note: those units uniquely have 3 sliding balcony doors to let in the breeze and are one bedrooms only with no lock-off hotel room next door]
I can only assume other check-ins were for 2 bedrooms or hotel rooms and so we got lucky.