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Leaving a tip for the cleaner on holiday

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jeanie99 Thu 02-Apr-15 10:26:59

Wondered what other members thought about tipping your cleaner on holiday.

If you have been given good service while staying for 7 days I always leave the cleaner a tip.

Our friend was holidaying with us this year in Egypt and stayed for a week in the same hotel when we got round to discussing tips she told me she had left the equivalent of a £1 tip for the cleaner for 7 days good service.

To say I was shocked is an understatement and I said these people receive so little pay and rely on tips but her answer was well they get paid to do the job and shouldn't expect tips.
If you have little money I can understand this but my friend is well off.

I left equivalent of £10 per week to our cleaner and thought that wasn't much, I guess I must be a soft touch in some peoples eyes.

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Soutra Mon 06-Apr-15 09:12:32

When you consider the (possible) risible local wage rate especially compared to the cost of a holiday , I think people can. Whether they do or not is the question. Do we think to show our appreciation of the little things that make a holiday a pleasure? Hotel domestic staff are rarely seen but if they do not do their job well, people can be quick to complain often in no uncertain terms.

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absent Mon 06-Apr-15 09:23:56

I have never left a tip for a cleaner in a hotel and this is the first time I have heard of anyone doing so. I am horrified to think that I might have been thoughtless and ungenerous but I had no idea that this was standard practice.

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glammanana Mon 06-Apr-15 09:41:33

We have always left a decent tip for the cleaner's at hotels they make all the difference to your stay,you can dash out for the day knowing your room will be spotless and tidy when you come back.
Once when in Turkey quite a few years ago we took a radio/alarm clock with us as we had booked early morning excursions it only cost about £6/7 here at Argos and the maid was taken with it so much we gave it to her when we left,you would have thought she had won the lottery,she had nothing like it at home as she lived in a village up in the mountains and had come to the hotel to work for the holiday season.
When we go out to Majorca at the end of the month we will leave a combined tip from the three rooms we will be occupying.

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