grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 #1 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Forum love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domm1e Posted March 18, 2017 #2 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I would say almost everyone. We certainly do Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bUU Posted March 18, 2017 #3 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I wonder if the OP was asking about additional tipping over and above standard. Updated: Ha! The thread right after this one is about that: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2472574 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellowjourney Posted March 18, 2017 #4 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We tipped our room steward and our MDR wait staff each $25 on the last day of the cruise. We sincerely felt like they had earned it and understand how little they make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfguyxxx Posted March 18, 2017 #5 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We always always always tip above the added on gratuity. Most crew work so hard and feel they deserve a bit more than the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #6 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Forum love sailing with RCCL Who tips on top of prepaid gratuitys to their cabin steward? Thanks for your replies. I wonder if the OP was asking about additional tipping over and above standard. Updated: Ha! The thread right after this one is about that: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2472574 love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinck Posted March 18, 2017 #7 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We always give $10 at the beginning of the cruise with our request and then usually $20 at the end. Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #8 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I wonder if the OP was asking about additional tipping over and above standard. Updated: Ha! The thread right after this one is about that: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2472574 Yes i was talking above prepaid. We have done 43 cruises and always done this it was just when a post from germanflyer on that post saying why do you tip extra if they don't do anything extra for you made me wonder as a new poster to cruise critic how many others do the same as i personally give a lot of extra tips. love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #9 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We always always always tip above the added on gratuity. Most crew work so hard and feel they deserve a bit more than the norm. Thank you my sentiments too. Graham. love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #10 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I would say almost everyone. We certainly do Sent from my iPhone using Forums That's what i thought and i do i was just curious to see how many people in reality do this. love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parrotfeathers Posted March 18, 2017 #11 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I cannot remember which sailing it was but there was one I did not leave an extra tip. I never saw him (her) the entire week. And he(she) was not there the morning I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bUU Posted March 18, 2017 #12 Share Posted March 18, 2017 From what I've read online and what I've heard from my friends and family who have cruised in the recent years that's becoming more more the case. They're being assigned more and more cabins to deal with and so they really have fewer and fewer opportunities to do anything remarkable enough to Warrant an extra gratuity. This message may have been entered using voice recognition. Please excuse any typos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champagne123 Posted March 18, 2017 #13 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I cannot remember which sailing it was but there was one I did not leave an extra tip. I never saw him (her) the entire week. And he(she) was not there the morning I left. Really? I find this strange. You d/n leave extra because you did not "see" him? Did he do his job? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leosmom08 Posted March 18, 2017 #14 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We always tip above the prepaid gratuities. We also leave little treats and snacks in the room almost each day when we go to dinner. We just enjoy spreading the love! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BND Posted March 18, 2017 #15 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We also tip above prepaid gratuities. Especially our steward and waitstaff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted March 18, 2017 #16 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Our BEST cabin attendant was one we never saw! The room was made up and straightened every time we returned to the cabin...fresh towels, even if we hadn't left them on the floor ( I hate leaving stuff on the floor)...trash emptied EVERY time we left the cabin, ice all the time, linens changed daily....Needless to say, we tipped him/her extra on top of the suggested tips. Folks who don't tip the cabin attendants probably don't tip the hotel housekeeper when they stay in hotels, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #17 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We always tip above the prepaid gratuities. We also leave little treats and snacks in the room almost each day when we go to dinner. We just enjoy spreading the love! You sound lovely x love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bUU Posted March 18, 2017 #18 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Folks who don't tip the cabin attendants probably don't tip the hotel housekeeper when they stay in hotels, either. Though there may be another reason for that. Back in the day, gratuities for housekeepers at hotels was actually a geographically specific phenomenon: IIRC hotels based on the East Coast generally paid their staff based on the assumption that patrons would tip them. That was the standard practice on the East Coast. Meanwhile hotel chains that grew up on the West Coast operated differently. They paid their housekeepers a full living wage and made no Provisions for them to receive gratuities. Of course around the nineteen-sixties hotel chains from the East and the West started overlapping each other's territories and things got very messy. Eventually hotel chains saw the financial benefit for themselves from treating their housekeepers as tipped employees. The industry has rallied around the East Coast model but there are still many folks old enough to have the established their perspectives regarding tipping housekeepers back when things were different. Old habits are hard to break. This message may have been entered using voice recognition. Please excuse any typos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #19 Share Posted March 18, 2017 From what I've read online and what I've heard from my friends and family who have cruised in the recent years that's becoming more more the case. They're being assigned more and more cabins to deal with and so they really have fewer and fewer opportunities to do anything remarkable enough to Warrant an extra gratuity. This message may have been entered using voice recognition. Please excuse any typos. I agree at one time the cabin stewards were always there and almost every time we left the cabin they would be nearby but now we hardly see them and on our last cruise i had to leave notes for several items that we ran out of. TBH it is a long time since we had a cabin steward who did more than expected. love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #20 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Really? I find this strange. You d/n leave extra because you did not "see" him? Did he do his job? :rolleyes: This is an example where the cabin steward didn't deserve anything above prepaid gratuitys love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #21 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Our BEST cabin attendant was one we never saw! The room was made up and straightened every time we returned to the cabin...fresh towels, even if we hadn't left them on the floor ( I hate leaving stuff on the floor)...trash emptied EVERY time we left the cabin, ice all the time, linens changed daily....Needless to say, we tipped him/her extra on top of the suggested tips. Folks who don't tip the cabin attendants probably don't tip the hotel housekeeper when they stay in hotels, either. We prepay our tip when booking usually 9 months in advance and i always believe the crew deserve at least that but if the cabin steward has only done his job and not bothered to interact he probably doesn't deserve extra. We had a cabin steward once who gave us a written note of every port with invaluable advice he was fantastic. love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secret1122 Posted March 18, 2017 #22 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Our standard is to tip an extra $20 the first day, $10 half way through the trip, and $20 the last day. Thus far, every trip has been "standard" with no abnormalities to adjust that tipping schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champagne123 Posted March 18, 2017 #23 Share Posted March 18, 2017 We prepay our tip when booking usually 9 months in advance and i always believe the crew deserve at least that but if the cabin steward has only done his job and not bothered to interact he probably doesn't deserve extra.We had a cabin steward once who gave us a written note of every port with invaluable advice he was fantastic. love sailing with RCCL Well, I guess this is a matter of opinion and what one is looking for. As I certainly respect your vision of what the cabin steward should do, I, for one see it as just the opposite. I don't have the need to interact with him/her. I don't need to know their life story, where they are from, how many children they have, etc. I don't need their e-mail address or FB name. Although we are very polite to ALL of the hard-working employee's on the ship, we are paying for their services and that is it. If I do not see my cabin steward for the duration of my vacation and my bed was made, towels replenished...etc. etc, I am very happy with that. If they go above and beyond, I would certainly leave extra $$....but I don't have to see them for this to be accomplished. I love the written note about the ports that you stated. To me, that is above and beyond and a great example of leaving an extra tip. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 18, 2017 Author #24 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Though there may be another reason for that. Back in the day, gratuities for housekeepers at hotels was actually a geographically specific phenomenon: IIRC hotels based on the East Coast generally paid their staff based on the assumption that patrons would tip them. That was the standard practice on the East Coast. Meanwhile hotel chains that grew up on the West Coast operated differently. They paid their housekeepers a full living wage and made no Provisions for them to receive gratuities. Of course around the nineteen-sixties hotel chains from the East and the West started overlapping each other's territories and things got very messy. Eventually hotel chains saw the financial benefit for themselves from treating their housekeepers as tipped employees. The industry has rallied around the East Coast model but there are still many folks old enough to have the established their perspectives regarding tipping housekeepers back when things were different. Old habits are hard to break. This message may have been entered using voice recognition. Please excuse any typos. Interesting story,being from England this is something i never knew. love sailing with RCCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtopia Posted March 18, 2017 #25 Share Posted March 18, 2017 The cabin steward is usually the only person I provide additional tip too, however, my last cruise is the only cruise I didn't. They literally did the bare necessities and forgot things one too many times. I will also tip a bartender extra if they treat me well for the duration of the sailing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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