Tips should be abolished, the price should include everything, except for maybe some special activities, but cruises these days seem like a lot or nickel and diming. I pre pay my tips but I have never been shown any proof they do or do not go to anyone.
Oh wow, hubby tips the luggage handler $20 for our 1 bag! So we have been doing too much! Just kidding, its hot when we cruise so they deserve what we give. We prepay our gratuities and tip extra for great service.
Tipping is recommended but not required. You tip on good service and that’s it! Employers and cruise lines try to put tips in the customers backs because they don’t want to pay their employees more money and that’s not our problem.
Tipping is getting out of hands, I was a generous tipper in my younger day to impress; what a fool I was, now retired and on fixed income I simply don't tip people when I know I won't ever see them again.
😂😮 As an avid cruiser AND a Dasher, let me explain something. Your food/delivery has ALWAYS been deprioritized when you don't tip. DD is just fessing up to it so customers know. FWIW, a Dasher gets a notification that an order is available. They are told the distance and the amount to be paid. Most Dashers will not accept orders that are less than $1/mile. It simply isn't worth their time. If they reject the offer, DD sends it to another Dasher. If rejected again, DD adds .25 and sends it to another Dasher. This will continue until the amount is sufficient to make it worth the Dashers time/effort. If you order from a place 5 miles away, DD is giving the driver $2, maaaayyybe $3, depending on the area. Your order with no tip is going to go through the process of being offerred to at least 10 Dashers before it gets accepted. And in high COL areas, Dashers won't accept orders less than $2/mile.
Look, I get that to you, a tip is for going "above and beyond" but you have to understand that the Dasher is expending their time, gas, vehicle wear and tear, etc. to just do the very basics of driving to the restaurant, waiting, and driving to you. It is a RARE occurrence when that can be done in less than 20 minutes, or 3 orders per hour. Usually it's 2/hour. $4 from DD and $4 from a tip isn't going to cut it. So I think the obvious answer is to stop thinking of the tip as a tip and start thinking of it as a cost of convenience so that you don't have to go get your own food.
Hang on a minute. Someone who takes 5 minutes to put your luggage on a trolley gets 20 dollars. Even assuming he/she only does this five times in an hour, that's 100 dollars an hour in tips…..
When we book cruise from Norway via cruise agent we pre pay between 16-19 USD pr pers pr day, and always give extra if we want. Then we arr sure that all employes get their tip.
The extras on a cruise are at a shocking level. Staff pay should be increased, prices increased, and the cruisers left to leave any tips beyond that they wish – without any guidance or arm-twisting from the company. I'll tip in a restaurant but not in an all-inclusive hotel – apart from something for the chambermaid. P.S. Five dollars a bag? Over-the-top. Tips for a driver and guide? Multiply the number of passengers by the cost of the excursion and then ask yourself why you're expected to give more. I'm often in a coach where the operator's revenue is 2000+ USD.
Tipping is out of control. On average over the last 2 years, I have tipped approximately $ 4K total a year between cruise lines and restaurants in my home town. Business should required to pay all there employees real living wage and stop asking the customer to pay there employees salaries. They MILLIONS every year and continue to neglect their employees. I for one refuse to tip because I have ZERO employees.
It is each to there own but P&O a British cruise line charge a few hundred more for the trip and no tipping is needed at all. The staff receive a good, fair and planned wage and i do not have to worry about another persons livelihood at every instance and can enjoy my holiday. As i said each to their own but i know which i prefer.
The tipping culture has become out of control. Not cruise related but i recently went to a hair salon, i needed work done for damaging my hair due to box color. The service was done by the owner of the shop. At the end of the service, i go to pay my bill and the counter lady starts calculating the different services at full value (i had a package price for adding on several services) and says to me we REQUIRE a 20% TIP on the full value of every service. I said then thats not a tip and should be part of the price. Needless to say i did not TIP what they wanted and ill never go back to that establishment. Next im sure we will be seeing slot machines asking for a TIP.
Never ever will I use Door Dash or any other food delivery service. The cruise industry charges a set tip amount, Door Dash doesn't and if you don't tip enough the driver is gonna be ticked. Nope. It's really not the same. I just do the prepaid gratuities and nothing else on a cruise.
My experience on cruise ships is that Americans do tip as part of their culture. What is most distressing is that the culture extends to them thinking the people they tip are merely servants. There is no politeness in asking for food or drinks. The would please appears to be absent from the American dictionary. Thank you does occur infrequently.
This rudeness extends to not washing hands in the buffet, handling food in the buffet, leaving towels on poolside lounges, refusing to take RATs when suggested by staff members, sitting in front seats of buses set aside for the infirm….
A recent 5 week cruise was mostly Australian cruisers was such a relief where these despicable traits were absent. OK Australian culture is not to tip. Why, businesses pay our folks a decent wage! If that isn’t enough we have universal health care and private health care.
I do the pre cruise gratuity, then I tip my Stewart, I tip the luggage guy, I tipped out $1 per drink even though I bought the drink package and paid the extra gratuity. I tip for extra service if it’s warranted. I think I paid more in tips and gratuities this last cruise then I paid for the cruise.
US Tipping "culture" is just out of control, In Aust we pay people a living wage so we generally don't need to tip. We still tip our room attendant and our waiters on a cruise
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QUESTION? – How do you tip on a cruise? Who do you normally tip?
Tips should be abolished, the price should include everything, except for maybe some special activities, but cruises these days seem like a lot or nickel and diming. I pre pay my tips but I have never been shown any proof they do or do not go to anyone.
Oh wow, hubby tips the luggage handler $20 for our 1 bag! So we have been doing too much! Just kidding, its hot when we cruise so they deserve what we give. We prepay our gratuities and tip extra for great service.
it already happens, but in not all countries as some don't tip at all
So the rest of the world cruises you don’t have to tip as not in America?
Tipping is recommended but not required. You tip on good service and that’s it! Employers and cruise lines try to put tips in the customers backs because they don’t want to pay their employees more money and that’s not our problem.
Tipping is getting out of hands, I was a generous tipper in my younger day to impress; what a fool I was, now retired and on fixed income I simply don't tip people when I know I won't ever see them again.
😂😮
As an avid cruiser AND a Dasher, let me explain something. Your food/delivery has ALWAYS been deprioritized when you don't tip. DD is just fessing up to it so customers know. FWIW, a Dasher gets a notification that an order is available. They are told the distance and the amount to be paid. Most Dashers will not accept orders that are less than $1/mile. It simply isn't worth their time. If they reject the offer, DD sends it to another Dasher. If rejected again, DD adds .25 and sends it to another Dasher. This will continue until the amount is sufficient to make it worth the Dashers time/effort. If you order from a place 5 miles away, DD is giving the driver $2, maaaayyybe $3, depending on the area. Your order with no tip is going to go through the process of being offerred to at least 10 Dashers before it gets accepted. And in high COL areas, Dashers won't accept orders less than $2/mile.
Look, I get that to you, a tip is for going "above and beyond" but you have to understand that the Dasher is expending their time, gas, vehicle wear and tear, etc. to just do the very basics of driving to the restaurant, waiting, and driving to you. It is a RARE occurrence when that can be done in less than 20 minutes, or 3 orders per hour. Usually it's 2/hour. $4 from DD and $4 from a tip isn't going to cut it. So I think the obvious answer is to stop thinking of the tip as a tip and start thinking of it as a cost of convenience so that you don't have to go get your own food.
Hang on a minute. Someone who takes 5 minutes to put your luggage on a trolley gets 20 dollars. Even assuming he/she only does this five times in an hour, that's 100 dollars an hour in tips…..
When we book cruise from Norway via cruise agent we pre pay between 16-19 USD pr pers pr day, and always give extra if we want. Then we arr sure that all employes get their tip.
It’s upside down world now and this is just the “tip of the iceberg”. Bad pun intended.
Why are you spreading Fake information?
The extras on a cruise are at a shocking level. Staff pay should be increased, prices increased, and the cruisers left to leave any tips beyond that they wish – without any guidance or arm-twisting from the company. I'll tip in a restaurant but not in an all-inclusive hotel – apart from something for the chambermaid.
P.S. Five dollars a bag? Over-the-top. Tips for a driver and guide? Multiply the number of passengers by the cost of the excursion and then ask yourself why you're expected to give more. I'm often in a coach where the operator's revenue is 2000+ USD.
Tipping is out of control. On average over the last 2 years, I have tipped approximately $ 4K total a year between cruise lines and restaurants in my home town. Business should required to pay all there employees real living wage and stop asking the customer to pay there employees salaries. They MILLIONS every year and continue to neglect their employees. I for one refuse to tip because I have ZERO employees.
It is each to there own but P&O a British cruise line charge a few hundred more for the trip and no tipping is needed at all. The staff receive a good, fair and planned wage and i do not have to worry about another persons livelihood at every instance and can enjoy my holiday.
As i said each to their own but i know which i prefer.
The tipping culture has become out of control. Not cruise related but i recently went to a hair salon, i needed work done for damaging my hair due to box color. The service was done by the owner of the shop. At the end of the service, i go to pay my bill and the counter lady starts calculating the different services at full value (i had a package price for adding on several services) and says to me we REQUIRE a 20% TIP on the full value of every service. I said then thats not a tip and should be part of the price. Needless to say i did not TIP what they wanted and ill never go back to that establishment. Next im sure we will be seeing slot machines asking for a TIP.
Never ever will I use Door Dash or any other food delivery service. The cruise industry charges a set tip amount, Door Dash doesn't and if you don't tip enough the driver is gonna be ticked. Nope. It's really not the same. I just do the prepaid gratuities and nothing else on a cruise.
My experience on cruise ships is that Americans do tip as part of their culture. What is most distressing is that the culture extends to them thinking the people they tip are merely servants. There is no politeness in asking for food or drinks. The would please appears to be absent from the American dictionary. Thank you does occur infrequently.
This rudeness extends to not washing hands in the buffet, handling food in the buffet, leaving towels on poolside lounges, refusing to take RATs when suggested by staff members, sitting in front seats of buses set aside for the infirm….
A recent 5 week cruise was mostly Australian cruisers was such a relief where these despicable traits were absent. OK Australian culture is not to tip. Why, businesses pay our folks a decent wage! If that isn’t enough we have universal health care and private health care.
Message: Money doesn’t replace good manners.
Way too much tipping.
I do the pre cruise gratuity, then I tip my Stewart, I tip the luggage guy, I tipped out $1 per drink even though I bought the drink package and paid the extra gratuity. I tip for extra service if it’s warranted. I think I paid more in tips and gratuities this last cruise then I paid for the cruise.
US Tipping "culture" is just out of control, In Aust we pay people a living wage so we generally don't need to tip. We still tip our room attendant and our waiters on a cruise