How much do you tip?

[travellingnana]

Same waiters every night for 10 days…

[Ombud]

I'm cheap.  $20 waiter / $20 asst waiter / $20 Head Waiter I'm assigned to (he's the one who takes my special meal order) & inform corporate how helpful he was / $20 steward /$2 each room service. But I've noticed that the room service & steward like those dove chocolates & individual chip bags. I laughed when someone mentioned that here on CC but they disappeared!! Told steward to take 1or 2 each day (his choice, he liked BBQ chips) and asked each room service person to help self if s/he wanted. Odd thing ..... after the 3rd time I got the same guy every day and he would go straight for the dove chocolates. 

 

Yes packing dove chocolates for next trip too

Edited May 10, 2022 by Ombud

[sirclean]

Somewhat confused by the question.  Tips are a flat rate and charged to the room (per person).  What am I missing in the question?  Do you cancel the auto tips and pay at the end in cash?  Is this in addition or instead of the roughly $15 a day that Princess charges/collects for tips?

[VibeGuy]

$1-2 for room service that shows up on a single tray.  More if they bring the cart or set up tea.  Buck a drink at bars or on deck. 
 

$5ish/night for the waiter.  3ish for the assistant.    $20 to the head waiter per voyage.  
 

$5-7/night to the steward plus $5 each time for going way out of their way to do something extra I requested. 
 

As the crew appreciation/service charge does not reward individual achievement, it isn’t a tip.  Fight me. 

[Ombud]

@sircleanI don't cancel auto gratuities,  I just add to them for individuals who do something specifically for me

[onlyslightlymad]

i have only been on cruises where gratuities are included in the fare, so it's never been an issue.

[cr8tiv1]

Let's try to be helpful to @travellingnana and not turn this into a "I don't tip" thread.  She (I'm just guessing) is looking for suggestions.  

 

I don't have a set tipping scale.

 

Room Service is $1 to $5 dependent on how difficult "I" was when placing my order.  Ha Ha...I can be crazy sometimes.

 

Room Steward, Head Waiter, and Assistant Manager in dining room is about $20 - $30 per 7 days.

 

Assistant Waiter is half to a little bit more when rounding up.

 

Around the ship.  On my last cruise, I gave the IC guy $5 for taking care of my peanut butter cookie fixes.

 

Sometimes, I am more generous if I made money in the casino.

 

$5 - $10 in the specialty restaurants.

 

I do carry around a little bit of cash.  It is usually my casino money, but sometimes it is better spent on crew.  And I keep the auto crew incentives in place (or how I hate these new terminologies).

 

I bring Macadamia Nuts instead of Dove Chocolates @Ombud.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2022 by cr8tiv1

[VibeGuy]

I’ll fluff your pillows and make you a towel animal for macadamia nuts.  Just sayin’. 

[cr8tiv1]

6 minutes ago, VibeGuy said:

I’ll fluff your pillows and make you a towel animal for macadamia nuts.  Just sayin’. 

 

As I told another CC member...you just have to book a cruise I am on.  On my last cruise, everytime I visited the Captain Circle rep / Liz, she got a handful of mac nut samplers (small bags) and even a can (which is now plastic).  She did so much for me.  At least she looked forward to my dropping by.

[VibeGuy]

I’ll warn you that I only know two towel/napkin sculptures - rubber chicken and an inappropriate one. 

[dog]

Leave on automatic gratuity.

end of cruise- depends on service- give extra cash in envelope to cabin steward, regular waitstaff, bartenders. Also to those who take luggage at embarkation. Extra in Specialty dining.

[Steelers36]

1 hour ago, onlyslightlymad said:

i have only been on cruises where gratuities are included in the fare, so it's never been an issue.

The question was about tipping additional to crew members - on top of what is included in the fare and Crew Incentive charged where applicable.

[onlyslightlymad]

Just now, Steelers36 said:

The question was about tipping additional to crew members - on top of what is included in the fare and Crew Incentive charged where applicable.

Oh, I see.  Thank you.

[waltd]

Just now, onlyslightlymad said:

Oh, I see.  Thank you.

Don't feel bad.  I didn't understand the OP post either.  

[PandaBear62]

I will bring extra cash.....probably $50 for dh and I for the our waiter and cabin host/hostess. $30-$40 for assistant waiter, especially if he is the one bringing our drinks. I tend to be a picky eater, and like to do things such as having 3 appetizers and no entree for dinner and other such things (which embaress my husband, who is about as low maintenance as they come). I also always ask for an extra blanket or two from our cabin host (I need to sleep under "weight"). 

I'll also bring extra cash for room service (although we don't typically use it, but just in case) and for bar servers, if we end up going to a bar and have the same server. On my two most recent cruises (Disney), the servers didn't seem to stay the same. In the 18 months before Covid, we sailed on Carnival, Princess and HAL and we did have the same bar server and we were treated well, so we gave some extra at the end. 

I figure some people either don't want to tip extra, or really have a much tighter budget than me. We are certainly not wealthy, but have a little room for extras, so we do so. Now if the service was really poor, I wouldn't tip extra. Maybe that will happen some day, but so far, it hasn't. I appreciate being pampered and want to show it. 

[cr8tiv1]

1 hour ago, VibeGuy said:

I’ll warn you that I only know two towel/napkin sculptures - rubber chicken and an inappropriate one. 

 

I'll take the funky chicken, mahalo nui loa.

[wowzz]

Pehaps €40 or so to the steward for a two week cruise. 

If a member of staff goes over and above, the odd €5.

That's it.

[Kiran]

~15th cruise for me but first for my brother and his wife.

 

My mom treated three of us to cruisefare.

 

But i drew up a list if additional costs my brother would be paying to make sure ok for their budget.

 

I included the autogratuity in list of expected expenses but warned him, that by the end if the cruise, he was going to be so grateful that he would wish he could just throw money at the crew.

 

His wife has Parkinson syndrome and he is grateful and appreciative of the room steward especially. 

 

Once Mobility issues and incontinence accident issues appear , steward and attendant assistance is of supreme importance. At home he faces caregiving on his own. Here on the cruise he has so much help and assistance for food and cabin cleaning, that he could snatch a bit of time to dash out to look about as we transited Panama Canal 

 

as for throwing money at the crew?

 

He tipped an Officer who took in hand  the dirty room service dishes he was putting outside cabin door.

 

Officer handed off the tip and the dishes to a steward farther down the hall.

[majortom10]

Sorry might upset many but booking the Princess Plus package which includes Crew Appreciation I do not tip any extra.

[d9704011]

7 minutes ago, majortom10 said:

Sorry might upset many but booking the Princess Plus package which includes Crew Appreciation I do not tip any extra.

Outrageous!  Oh yeah.... me too.

[voljeep]

Steward - $20/up to 7 days

Room Service - $2-3

Specialty Dinner - $10 or so depending

Bar Staff - Vines - $5 or so 1st night, then a couple of $ each night for same waiter(s)

Other bars - $1-2 per order

don't tip at all in mdr - nothing special about ordering a baked potato with extra butter as a side

 

Porter $5 drop off total

Porter $20 if needed to take bags to car in parking garage ( mobility issues )

Edited May 10, 2022 by voljeep
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[1965]

16 minutes ago, majortom10 said:

Sorry might upset many but booking the Princess Plus package which includes Crew Appreciation I do not tip any extra.

Same here.

[wowzz]

1 hour ago, voljeep said:

Other bars - $1-2 per order

So, buy a $10 drink. Service charge of $1.80, and then you add $2 on top, so basically a 40% tip. Even for the US that seems a lot .

[c-boy]

10% of what ever we win in the casino

[voljeep]

1 hour ago, wowzz said:

So, buy a $10 drink. Service charge of $1.80, and then you add $2 on top, so basically a 40% tip. Even for the US that seems a lot .

with Princess Plus package, yes

 

I drink single malt scotch and wine ( cab ) - I get 'full' pours - even if not needed due to the '15'