Where do you leave the mousekeeping tip?

Gucci65

Gucci65

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I have left my mousekeeping tip in different places before and have come back to the room later in the day to find that money sitting on the dresser. Like they thought I dropped it on accident.

So WHERE is the best place to leave your daily tip? I don't recall seeing an envelope or a special dish. Do you leave a note with it?
 
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slappy magoo

slappy magoo

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kimmychad said:
thanks slappy, I had no idea they made more than the union employees at my hospital start out at. I'll definitely have to adjust my tipping for the next trip. :wave:
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I know! Tell me about it! Here's I how *I* (and, I'm sure, alecshawn) see it: The average rent for an apartment in the Orlando metro area is ONLY about half of a Mousekeeper's takehome salary! And Orlando's crime rate is ONLY ALMOST 3 TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE! So that's exciting! And if they don't have to finance a new car (or pay for the upkeep on an old car, or keep getting mugged or have some other violent crmie befall them that requires a hospital visit with a copay) then all they have to worry about is food and utilities and clothes and NOT saving any money! That is, as long as they don't have kids! But hey, if you can't afford 'em, don't have 'em (but if you wind up with 'em, NEVER get rid of them. You may see it as a conundrum, ALECSHAWN and I see it as important life lessons you nevahevahevah stop learning!) Once you factor all that in, who needs a tip! Or a free pizza for that matter? NO free lunches in THIS life! Except of course, some fire departments have a budget that includes food for the staff since they're working 24 hours a day! THOSE guys, THEY deserve free meals, BUT ABSOLUTELY NO ONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!! It's like feeding stray cats, they'll only get used to it, and then they'll never leave! Shoo! Shoo, you Mousekeepers! Scat! Tss! Tss!

One day, alecshawn & I will build a rocket ship and fight fires on MARS! You wait and see, you betcha!
 
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kimmychad

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slappy magoo said:
I know! Tell me about it! Here's I how *I* (and, I'm sure, alecshawn) see it: The average rent for an apartment in the Orlando metro area is ONLY about half of a Mousekeeper's takehome salary! And Orlando's crime rate is ONLY ALMOST 3 TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE! So that's exciting! And if they don't have to finance a new car (or pay for the upkeep on an old car, or keep getting mugged or have some other violent crmie befall them that requires a hospital visit with a copay) then all they have to worry about is food and utilities and clothes and NOT saving any money! That is, as long as they don't have kids! But hey, if you can't afford 'em, don't have 'em (but if you wind up with 'em, NEVER get rid of them. You may see it as a conundrum, ALECSHAWN and I see it as important life lessons you nevahevahevah stop learning!) Once you factor all that in, who needs a tip! Or a free pizza for that matter? NO free lunches in THIS life! Except of course, some fire departments have a budget that includes food for the staff since they're working 24 hours a day! THOSE guys, THEY deserve free meals, BUT ABSOLUTELY NO ONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!! It's like feeding stray cats, they'll only get used to it, and then they'll never leave! Shoo! Shoo, you Mousekeepers! Scat! Tss! Tss!

One day, alecshawn & I will build a rocket ship and fight fires on MARS! You wait and see, you betcha!
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Thanks slappy thats the most i've laughed in a while. (they're still not getting more than $5 a week though).
 
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Glasgow

Glasgow

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Um ... I forgot what this thread was about. Oh yeah, use envelopes ....

Incidentally, don't forgot to tip your local envelope seller for selling you those envelopes (if you have any spare envelopes -- if not, go to your local envelope seller and get some, but don't forget to tip ... oh dang)
 
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musketeer

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KCMO said:
An admirable stand you take. Just make sure you look twice at that drinking glass before you sip. Better sniff the sheets too. Of course if you stiffed the skycap at the airport too, you probably don't have to worry about what the maid does to your clothes since your luggage is probably lost somewhere on the other side of the country.
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Interesting. I didn't realize that I had to bribe people to not damage my stuff. What kind of people are the housekeepers if they'll ruin your room and your belongings if you don't bribe them not to? I didn't think I'd have to pay for protection at Disney World of all places.
 
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slappy magoo

slappy magoo

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musketeer said:
Interesting. I didn't realize that I had to bribe people to not damage my stuff. What kind of people are the housekeepers if they'll ruin your room and your belongings if you don't bribe them not to? I didn't think I'd have to pay for protection at Disney World of all places.
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With this I agree. If you work a job where tips are common, there's no excuse for taking retribution on a customer who forgets or refuses to tip. FWIW I don't think that sort of thing happens nearly as often as urban legend makes it out to occur. In fact, I think it's just as common (which means not common at all) that you're tipping people who are messing with your rooms or your food or what have you, just not in a way you'd notice.

My honest-to-goodness rule of thumbs is to be incredibly nice to anyone performing a service for me right off the bat, until/unless they give me a reason not to. And that rarely happens. In fact, last time was 6 years ago, not at WDW but at an Applebees where a server who insisted we call him "The Wolfman" (why, I've no idea, maybe because of his furry muttonchops) also questioned my choice of a drink order. I ordered a cola, he smirked and asked "What, are we not drinking tonight?" I stared at him for a few seconds, thinking there's a certain degree of stupid audacity in questioning what someone chooses to drink, unless they're asking for a lye-and-pickle-juice cocktail. So I said:
"A: I may be a recovering alcoholic
B: I may be doing something later that requires my being sober
C: I could be the designated driver
D: Alcohol might be against my religion
There are a hundred different reasons why I'm not drinking tonight. You know what they all have in common?"

"I'm sorry, sir."
"DO YOU KNOW what they have in common?"
"no, sir."
"They're none of your business."
"I'm really sorry sir."
"I know a tip based on a bill with booze on it isn't as big as a tip with no booze on it, but it's still bigger than no tip at all. Which is what you've got from me." And I left.
 
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nikkie876

nikkie876

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Scooter said:
To answer the original question, I put our tip in an envelope marked for Mousekeeping and leave one every day before we head out to the parks. We always leave the envelope in front of the coffee pot.

Yes...I tip Housekeepers..and I tip them a LOT.

No tip= clean room.

Small tip=VERY clean room w/extra towels and an occasional towel animal.

Large tip= above and beyond service. Examples: I collect coasters and when I tip well, somehow stacks of 30 or more Mickey Mouse coasters magically show up on my nightstand. Sometimes bath robes that are supposed to reserved for concierge level guests mysteriously appear out of no where in our standard room closets. Candy, cakes, fruit baskets, autographed pictures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and even Disney pins have somehow showed up in our room...without us even asking for any of it.

I find that if you are nice to people, they usually respond in kind.:animwink:
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So what is considered a 'large tip'?
 
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rob0519

rob0519

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Ok. so we just got back from 5 days at the World. In that time I tipped:
The cab driver that took our family of 5 to the airport.
The Skycap who checked in our 5 suit cases.
The bellman who delivered our 5 suitcases all the way across the GF resort.
The valet every time he brought our car up.
The house keeper for two separate rooms each day. (She really did a nice job. We're kind of messy living out of suitcases)
The servers 18%-20% for each table meal. (This is the one that ticks me off the most)
The bellman, Skycap and cab driver on the way home.

It really adds up fast.
 
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kelknight84

kelknight84

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Someone needs to check at the front desk if they are even allowed to keep it. I worked in transportation and if people tipped us (and they did) we would have to immediately inform our manager and turn it over, never to see it again. If we were caught keeping it then it was automatic termination.
 
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Horizons '83

Horizons '83

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In the Parks
No
Never tipped a room service person at Disney or any hotel for that matter and haven't run into any issues because of it and I wouldn't except there to be, as they are paid to clean our rooms. If I had kids, I can understand tipping them if you have to leave your room mess each day but for me and my wife no so much. Heck we end up cleaning the room before they come anyway.
 
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JennSmith

JennSmith

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I plan on tipping because I think that job is probably really gross. I do not plan on leaving gross messes for mousekeeping to clean up but I am sure that MANY other rooms do. So I tip because I kind of feel sorry for them. Yes, I know they can get a different job but it's the job they have for now. Just like when I see a server at a restaurant being treated like crap by another table...I tend to tip that server a little more - I've been there so I empathize. I do not care if they don't get to keep the tip or if they have to share or if it goes to a pizza fund. I tip because I appreciate what they're doing, I know it must suck sometimes, and I want them to know that my family appreciates it. Also I have stayed at hotels, (not @ Disney) where my junk has gone missing. I would hope this wouldn't ever happen on Disney property but I also hope that maybe feeling a little more appreciated would deter someone from being a jerkface while cleaning my space. That being said, we already printed envelopes and plan on placing them out each day somewhere obvious.
@alecshawn and @slappy magoo - LOL. I cannot even with you two. I am so entertained at this point. I don't even want this thread to end.
 
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disneyfirstLJ

disneyfirstLJ

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I leave the tip in envelopes each day on the table in the room. My daughter decorates the envelopes with Disney stickers and we always write a message to the Mousekeeper on the front.
 
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