News Disney Cruise Line Raises Pre-Paid Gratuity Recommendations for 2025 Sailings

[HauntedPirate]

I am not aware of notice being given in the past.

Which basically proves my point. In days of yore, Disney would have give a notice - "For sailings beginning on xx-xx-xx, gratuities will increase to $--/person/night". But since show has been long since thrown out the door as something they care about, it's just more of the usual bend-over-and-take-it approach graciously given to us under Bob.

 

[Andrew C]

You know what annoys me the most...the dang surveys from ALL the cruise lines, and the fact that if you don't give a perfect score, it hurts the staff. It isn't a real survey then.

 

[HauntedPirate]

You know what annoys me the most...the dang surveys from ALL the cruise lines, and the fact that if you don't give a perfect score, it hurts the staff. It isn't a real survey then.

And they don’t really give you a place to express opinions. And the survey MUST be completed on your last day, which may include: a port stop; dinner; a show; packing to have your bags ready and outside your stateroom by 10:30pm. Give me a survey where I can A) Do it within a week of disembarking, and B) Allows me to voice opinions in free text boxes of 5000 characters per category (cruise/value/staff/amentites/ports/et al).

 

[Lee Vining]

Last 3 DLC cruises the staff was less vocal about giving them a good grade. Evidently concerns about that has got back to management.
Only problem on our last cruise was our dinner wait staff was spread too thin, had too many tables.
We tip the room attendant on Day one, in cash. I dunno why, we just do.

 

[Lilofan]

You have to manually select to prepay gratuities, the default is not to prepay them and pay them yourself, if you choose, at the end of your cruise.

We’ve done 4 DCL cruises and have always selected to prepay tips but we always end up tipping hundreds more (on top of the prepaid tips) at the end because the CMs are that good.

You have to manually select to prepay gratuities, the default is not to prepay them and pay them yourself, if you choose, at the end of your cruise.

We’ve done 4 DCL cruises and have always selected to prepay tips but we always end up tipping hundreds more (on top of the prepaid tips) at the end because the CMs are that good.

Our waiter went above and beyond when I commented to him I enjoyed the grilled salmon at dinner the night before. He asked me if I would like it for breakfast with my scrambled eggs. He then talked to the cooks and I had a delish breakfast of many items including grilled salmon.