Specialty Restaurant Tipping

[chiokie]

Should you tip at the specialty restaurant or is this part of the charge to your cruise account?

[morriscats]

I wish I knew the answer to this as well. There have been different answers here. When we ate at Sabatini's on our last cruise there was no place to add a tip to the bill we got so we asked the waiter. He said not to add the tip to the bill but to give him cash (which we didn't bring with us) as it would just get put into the pool if we added it to the bill.

[Colo Cruiser]

We always tip at the spaecialty restaurants. :)

[Pia1913]

There has never been a true consensus of opinion on this subject. I believe everyone says they tip extra, while many do not. There are those who feel that the surcharge for eating there IS your tip. Others don't feel that way.

[Tak8]

I don't have the princess answer, but if I receive good to exceptional service I leave a tip in cash form.

[bhopal21]

I don't have the princess answer, but if I receive good to exceptional service I leave a tip in cash form.

 

We have always done likewise.:)

 

Mike:)

[CruisinChris]

Princess has always positioned the charge as a service charge. ]It's not necessary to tip additional, unless you want to.

[FritzG]

When we tried to tip our server when we were on the Diamond in May he refused the tip and said it was taken care of. We felt very funny about it and came back the next night with a cash tip, but he still wouldn't take it.

[gertz]

We always tip. We have put it on our cruise card they just have you sign another form to do.

[Joeybun]

I wish I knew the answer to this as well. There have been different answers here. When we ate at Sabatini's on our last cruise there was no place to add a tip to the bill we got so we asked the waiter. He said not to add the tip to the bill but to give him cash (which we didn't bring with us) as it would just get put into the pool if we added it to the bill.

 

 

 

We ate at the Crown Grill recently on the Crown Princess and there was a line on the bill for tips. It looked just like a cc receipt from any restaurant.

[sultan_sfo]

When one does this, the tip goes into the auto-tip pool. If one gives cash, it is shared by the servers working that shift.

 

We always tip. We have put it on our cruise card they just have you sign another form to do.

[Canusa02]

I don't have the princess answer, but if I receive good to exceptional service I leave a tip in cash form.

 

I never thought of a cash tip option. That would guarantee that I'm showing my appreciation directly to the person whose service I appreciate. I'll make sure to have cash with me when I try Sabatini's in a few weeks.

[Treven]

I always leave a $20 cash tip.

[LENORA516]

We have eaten at least one of the specialty restaurants on each of our cruises. We have always tipped except for the last cruise where the service was not up to par... the waiter would disappear, didn't clear away the dishes from one course before bringing the next, forgetting silverware etc. We didn't think that he deserved anything extra.

[Putterdude]

We don't tip because we assume that some portion of the cover charge goes to the waiters and if not then auto-tip surely does.

[caribill]

We don't tip because we assume that some portion of the cover charge goes to the waiters and if not then auto-tip surely does.

 

 

The Purser's desk people told me that the specialty restaurant waitstaff is covered by the auto-tip.