Tipping Van Drivers
 

I tip the hotel van drivers 2 bucks. For a lazy driver who won't help with the bags, they get a buck, or nothing if they have an attitude.

Am I tipping too much at $2.00? I notice that most crews pay out a dollar at the end of a ride.

I tip $2.00 too. I get per diem while I'm on the road - so it's really not money out of my pocket. I'll get a crew meal on the plane, so two meals the rest of the day is covered by per diem with money left over. So, $2.00 - 4.00 in tips for the van driver is fine, unless he/she is a putz. I don't feel obligated to tip, if they have an attitude or help with bags, I could care less about getting a dirty look from them.

I'm usually up to tipping them $1.00, but only if they're on time. If we have to wait more than a few minutes, I don't tip at all.

Van drivers should be paid better. Why have hotel guests subsidize these employees' pay?

Nobody tips regional pilots, who are paid even less than a shuttle driver.- and we can cut corners, speed up, and taxi like a bat out of hell to help make these passengers' connections.

A captain I know leaves a tip jar hanging on the cockpit door as passengers exit.

Damn! I thought *I* was cheap, tipping ONLY $2 up to the day I retired 2 years ago! Counting for inflation, you guys are REALLY upholding the “cheap pilot” tradition <G>

Tips
 

I tip $1 also. Recently, however, I have been leaving $1 for the chamber maid. I feel less guilty when I leave the place a mess. :)

I tip one dollar for timely pickups.

What do you tip --if anything-- the maids and room service? Most of the pilots I fly with don't leave a dime.

$1.00 each ride. It's all I'm willing to part with considering I'm on the lower end of the payscale.

I like the captains who tip for the entire crew :) What's 5 bucks?

Tip's
 

I leave $5.00 for the driver and $5.00 for the maid.( I leave a mess )

Is that 5 bucks just for you, or for members of your crew too?

For the maid I leave $2.00 per day...

Tip's
 

:o sorry about that......For Everybody

Who told you that Captains were invented to be ‘liked’ ? <g>

Five bucks here . . five bucks there .. pretty soon you are talking a Porsche payment <G>

Tip the maid? Are you serious? My momma raised kids who cleaned up after themselves and left a place as good or better than they found it.

3 bucks for the driver, FO gets the out bound leg. Nothing for the maid, if she's pretty, I'd give her a smile: hasn't happen yet!:D

How to tip a maid

$1 per day, per bed, on your pillow or with a note anywhere else in the room. Most hotels have a policy that maids are not allowed to touch any money unless it is on the pillow or there is a note. There are certain instances where you should leave a little extra tip. Such as if you request additional services extra towels, sheets changed (not all hotels change your sheets if you are staying over). It is true that if you tip generously you get much better service. The hotel I work at does not change the sheets on stay overs, only when the guests check out. But when we get a generous tip, we change sheets, leave extra towels, and offer more if we see you. Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 guests don't tip at all. I disagree with the no tipping on check out. Check outs take a long time to do. We have to clean from top to bottom.

anyone who has ever worked a job that get tips knows its important, and i hate people who do not tip. i am a very generous tipper, i usally do at least 2 to the driver, and 3 if he/she helps out, or is speedy. room service people i tip them as if they were a pizza delivery guy, and they usally get 3-4 depending on what i order, and the maids i give 2 to, unless i request extra things.

Don't feel bad for the shuttle drivers at the airport. I met a shuttle driver at LAS who was a former NW airlines maintenance tech. He said he brings in close to $70,000 a year driving a shuttle and has no plans to return to aviation maintenance because the pay is so good.
I also met a valet and a bell boy at MGM Grand who both claimed to make over $80,000 a year. The bell boy owned two homes in Las Vegas and had plans for another. They are some of the better paid employees in the city. Not too bad for a job that requires no education and no special skills. Unforunately those jobs are all about who you know, otherwise I might be a bell boy (lol).

When it's my turn, I tip 3 bucks for the short drives, and 5 for the longer drives. This covers the two of us. Oh, and any extra stops, such as the bakery in SJU, rate extra tip $$ (as well as his choice of pastry!)

I'm sorry, but I think the tipping thing has gone too far. I like the Japanise way, don't, and they still do a better job:eek: When tippng becomes customary, like in food service, the people arn't paid any more, they are paid less! It is expected that the costumer will pick up the slack, good service or not. As been pointed out before, no one tips pilot, and we know in many cases they earn less than a maid.:mad:

I think a buck each way is enough...if its crappy service,i do not give anything,i usually get my own bags anyways...

Stuff
 

A buck or two for each stop.

Tipping is out of control in this country!

Unless the driver somehow goes out of his way to assist me somehow (makes a stop at the gas station etc.) I don't tip.

Tip the maid, for what? Doing her job? I clean up after my self, I even make the bed when I leave. Don't think so!

Jesus! Even the "paper Boy" (if there was such a thing I might consider it) wants a tip for x-mas.

Maybe If I had the money to spread around I might be a little more generous, but I still don't understand why I should tip someone for what they get paid to do!

As far as I know servers at restaurants are still the only people who get paid below minimum wages, so I tip them. BUT it still enjoys me that I have to subsidize an industry’s unwillingness to pay minimum wages.

I pay a price for a service or product, if the individual selling me that service/product goes beyond what I expect I will return or tip depending on the situation.

I don’t tip for the sake of tipping!

Don't make the bed when you leave. She has to change the sheets anyway, and might think it wasn't used. I don't want to sleep on your dirty sheets.

You hit the nail right on the head. Let's stop the bleeding now!:D

I stopped tipping when my airline cut my pay by 50%......No one blames me

I agree. Most of the time I get my own bags. If they do, I will tip a buck. But the majority of the time my wallet is empty because I had to use my perdiem $ to by food for my family or to pay my $240 gas bill this month. But lately I've been saving all my "tip money" so I can aford to eat when I get furloughed next month. Oh , and my wife is pregnant with twins and doesn't work.

I love being an airline pilot.....stress free:eek:

$1 if the service is good, if not, then nothing

I think you should tip maids and van drivers. In the end you do get better service because of the incentive.

Tipping the maids is the biggest secret. Tip them $3, and you've just guaranteed yourself that they won't be stealing your stuff! Because so few people tip them.

In Subic, the same $3 will get you a happy ending. To heck with having the room cleaned or worrying about them stealing my stuff. Happy endings for all!

What about when the van driver is a woman? I refuse to make a woman lift my bags into & out of the van. Especially in the pre-LIDO days when my 45# flight bag was part of the ensemble. So, I get my bags but I still tip the women if they make the attempt to get them.

My normal tip is $3 if the driver (male) gets mine and the F/O bags in and out. Less to zero if they have 'tude.

I tip divers $2 each way. Never really seems to make a difference though.

A tip is for "Service Rendered". Self explanatory. Used to get re-imbursed for tips. Don't know how it is these days.

I tip the shuttle drivers and bartender fairly well at my usual SFO hotel. They all know me (I stay there enough!) and give me great service. I had one guy though who had an attitude and I gave him nothing. I never saw him again, so I guess he didn't last. A couple of weeks ago, the Blue Angels were at the bar (after their last show of course!) and I bought a round of drinks for them and their wives and girlfriends. Set me back a few bucks, OUCH!, but my father, an ex-Navy man, would have been proud of his little girl for buying a round for the boys in blue. The bartender got a fat tip as well. I think I'm his new best friend...LOL...hope he doesn't expect that all the time though!

If times are lean though, one shouldn't stress out over tipping. Give what you can, and if you can't, a kind word will be appreciated. I waited tables when I was young and could pick up on little signs if a person was struggling financially, but a kind person.

I always ask for the airline discount on food/drinks and then give a nice tip plus the discounted amount to the waitress/waiter. If they don't want to extend the discount, they are essentially letting the restaurant/bar keep their money. How clever you say. Van drivers $1 tip unless they are really great at which there is no limit. Gave a very nice driver in Denver who operates with his wife a $50 tip once to take his nice wife out for dinner after a long day. He literally cried over it but I just said "Hey, I'm a nice guy, what can I say" I am also of the belief that a tip is earned. For poor service in any venue I am not apt to leave anything. No tip says " Your service was lousy".

"T.I.P." means To Insure Promptness. Originally for delivery boys, now commonly used the same as gratuity (a money gift for a service). I'm not a big "tipper". Probably due to my time at regionals making little money- not that I have a lot now! I've never tipped a maid, nor have I ever met one. They clean after I'm gone, so I never think of them. The driver gets one Dollar/Euro/Pound/etc- or just a dollar if I don't have their money. The crew passes an envelope on the bus and all 8 to 10 of us put about a dollar in, so the driver gets a nice big tip in an envelope.

I also tip the bartender, waiter, etc. What percent? That's another topic. Especially if you add different countries and customs.