P&O Mandatory Tipping

[paul929207]

Starting in April 2012, P&O will introduce mandatory tipping at a rate of £3.10 per person per day.

 

Hope Princess follows their lead,

[chrysalis]

yes...I agree

[P&OMAN]

It is not mandatory, as you can still go to reception and get the automatic tips either reduced or removed altogether, as you can on Princess ships.

[CruiseKing]

Starting in April 2012, P&O will introduce mandatory tipping at a rate of £3.10 per person per day.

 

Hope Princess follows their lead,

Princess already has a discretionary hotel and dining charge program in place and has for a few years. It is between $10.50 and $11.00 depending on your accommodations. It can however be reduced or removed by going to the pursers desk.

[paul929207]

Princess already has a discretionary hotel and dining charge program in place and has for a few years. It is between $10.50 and $11.00 depending on your accommodations. It can however be reduced or removed by going to the pursers desk.

Princess raised the autotip a few months back. It is now $11.50 & $12.00

[Pam in CA]

Starting in April 2012, P&O will introduce mandatory tipping at a rate of £3.10 per person per day.

 

Hope Princess follows their lead,

The Cruise Critic article's headline uses the word "mandatory," which is misleading. :(

[szdiver]

as hard as the people on ships work, why would anyone even think of taking their tips away?

[chrysalis]

Paul...shame on you. You have started another tipping thread!:D

[srpilo]

Paul...shame on you. You have started another tipping thread!:D

 

 

:eek::eek::eek:

 

 

 

Srpilo :D

[CruiseKing]

Princess raised the autotip a few months back. It is now $11.50 & $12.00

Thank you for the update

[paul929207]

Paul...shame on you. You have started another tipping thread!:D

It is a boring holiday weekend. Figured I would spice things up. :)

[Beopthtuh]

mandatory means non removable and at £3.10 as a start figure isn.t bad.

then folks will be paying something rather than nothing.

if the cruise line built it into the fair again everyone would pay thn no arguement would exist

 

a 10 day cruise in carribbean is going to cost me £1700 ea so £3400 ($5500)

for an inside cabin. then they want $230 for tips .

now i think the staff work hard and deservre the tips but theres got to be a happy medium between the costs.

[Pam in CA]

From the perspective of US general tipping practices of 15-20%, $10.50/day is very reasonable, particularly considering all of the waitstaff in the dining rooms at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the buffet for the 18+ hours a day it's open, not to mention your steward and his/her helper.

[srphnx]

Why, is tipping controversial? :rolleyes:

 

We have run the gamut from auto tip plus to auto tip to (in one rare instance) a token reduction just to show displeasure. I guess that leave auto tip removal but that would take a really horrific experience to merit. We are pleased to say that no cruise line or crew has deserved that in our sailing past.

 

 

Paul...shame on you. You have started another tipping thread!:D

[srphnx]

Does anyone know if Celebrity still wants you to tip the "head housekeeper"?

 

From the perspective of US general tipping practices of 15-20%, $10.50/day is very reasonable, particularly considering all of the waitstaff in the dining rooms at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the buffet for the 18+ hours a day it's open, not to mention your steward and his/her helper.

[pris993]

Does anyone know if Celebrity still wants you to tip the "head housekeeper"?

 

I think this is built into the auto tip as well on Celebrity. Haven't been on Celebrity since 2009, will be going again in March 2012.

 

We use to tip in cash only, now days we go with the auto tip. If we find service warrants more we tip more in cash. We always tip folks who do some thing extra when they provide service during the cruise, that way we don't need to try and find them at the end.

 

In 40+ cruises we have only not tipped once because the staff in the MDR were so unprofessional. At the time we were going to give them the miminum - but on the last night the service was even worse, so we decided not to tip at all. We actually should have complained about the service we received which we did not. That was years ago. Now we would complain to the Matre'd if we received such poor service.

[antsp]

Im all for tipping, and always do, however thats whats keeps service level high. If the tip was a gurantee i dont think the service would be as good. I think the system as it is works well

[Love.II.Cruise]

From the perspective of US general tipping practices of 15-20%, $10.50/day is very reasonable, particularly considering all of the waitstaff in the dining rooms at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the buffet for the 18+ hours a day it's open, not to mention your steward and his/her helper.

 

I agree!

[caribill]

From the perspective of US general tipping practices of 15-20%, $10.50/day is very reasonable, particularly considering all of the waitstaff in the dining rooms at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the buffet for the 18+ hours a day it's open, not to mention your steward and his/her helper.

 

$11.50 now. Still reasonable.