Personally, I hate that Princess pools the tips to be shared across the fleet. Not just on the ship I've cruised on.
How do I stop that from happening? I don't want anything auto billed. Certainly not tips which will be according to service.
I think currently it is $12 per day per person in your party. That amount is divided up to those 4 job positions.
Because if you remove the tips, they don't get paid.
And I did make adjustments as my cabin steward was the worse so I want that option.
If anyone does ask, which I will consider gauche
After all, a tip is a gratuity not a substidy.
I believe DCL is doing the auto gratuity for convenience.
Now, if you're fine with the standard tip, you don't have to do anything.
I thought it was done at the end of the cruise, but based on a 'suggested' daily amount.
I'm not implying that certain nationalities are stingy, but tipping generously just isn't the norm in their world.
I really don't think twice about the tips on any cruise - no matter which cruise line it is. We just accept the fact that the auto tips are a part of the cost of taking a cruise, and then tip with additional cash here and there as we see fit.
The actual card charge comes at the end.
It’s broken down per day on the statement.
You can go to guest services and change things.
But you don’t seem to understand the cruise industry as it is.
Yep. Immensely reasonable given all that employees on cruises do for us.
Yep. And it’s like that throughout the mainstream cruise industry.
And you can do that. You don’t have to stop the process at the beginning, though.
But you really ought to communicate before simply not tipping.
It’s not gauche to find out what they can do for you to make things better.
Not in the cruise industry. Someday when you create a cruiseline and increase prices so there are no gratuities, many will cruise with you. But the industry as it stands uses tips AS payment.
It is what it is. If I despised a practice enough that I would shortchange people, I wouldn’t partake in the industry. I’d go on the high end lines that don’t have the tips.
Agreed.
Our first cruise involved actually giving cash to people at the end and I hated that. I was so glad it had changed once we got back to cruising.
I wanted to tip- after all, that amount is nothing compared to cruising itself, but I hated the process.
Yep.
It is.
Right. Because as you said, they pay their service people a proper wage. And that cost is put right into the cost of the service/food/whatever.
Agreed. My first cruise as an adult - waaaaay back in 2006/07 - we were scrambling to get the "correct" amount of cash as we hadn't put that aside at the beginning (rookie mistake!) and I didn't want to break my travellers cheques (remember those?). We ended up doing that anyway but it was a pain getting it all together.Our first cruise involved actually giving cash to people at the end and I hated that. I was so glad it had changed once we got back to cruising.
I wanted to tip- after all, that amount is nothing compared to cruising itself, but I hated the process.
Out of curiosity I decided to put this to the test and, unless things have changed dramatically, this would not be true for us.If you were on a 7 day vacation, eating at a restaurant every meal and tipping you would be giving way more than what you give to these servers.
like others have stated, the auto gratuity is per guest per "night" of the cruise. If everyone (yea that's not happening) tips according to the "automatic daily gratuity then all of the staff gets tips for working at breakfast, lunch, dinner and at the bars and fast food places (pool deck) and cabanas - Every Day. Even though you might only be seeing your serving team at dinner time, they are working from before 6am until midnight or later almost every day. So you are not tipping at each meal / interaction, you are tipping (really paying their salary - since the cruise line does not) for all of the work they are doing while you are on your cruise holiday.How do I stop that from happening? I don't want anything auto billed. Certainly not tips which will be according to service.
Dinners at a table service restaurant for the three of us before adult beverages and taxes typically costs between $25 and $35. Because Disney has more upscale selections, I will go with $50. Fifteen per cent of this is $7.50. (I am ignoring the dinner we did at Cabanas and the night we did room service.)
Fifteen per cent of this is $7.50.
Out of curiosity I decided to put this to the test and, unless things have changed dramatically, this would not be true for us.
Four dollars for the server, $3 for the assistant server and one $1 for the head server per day adds up to $8. Times three people that is $24 a day.
On our last Disney cruise we did the buffet for breakfast and lunch. The only service I remember being provided was table bussing. No table service as it was a buffet and no drink service because there were drink stations. This would only warrant a $2 tip (which is about 7.5% on a $27 bill, not that we calculate it that way) in total at each meal. So $4 there. (I am ignoring the one day we did a sit down lunch as well as the one day we did counter pizza because they would balance out.)
Dinners at a table service restaurant for the three of us before adult beverages and taxes typically costs between $25 and $35. Because Disney has more upscale selections, I will go with $50. Fifteen per cent of this is $7.50. (I am ignoring the dinner we did at Cabanas and the night we did room service.)
$24 - ($6+$7.50) = $12.50
So this would cost me $12.50 a day in tips on other trips, which is just over half what Disney recommends.
I would now like to see how Disney calculates their recommended amount.
Dinners at a table service restaurant for the three of us before adult beverages and taxes typically costs between $25 and $35. Because Disney has more upscale selections, I will go with $50. Fifteen per cent of this is $7.50. (I am ignoring the dinner we did at Cabanas and the night we did room service.)
The MDR's are a multi course meal. Where exactly are you finding these meals that include an appetizer course, a soup/salad course, an entree and a dessert for three people (even if one is a child) for $25/$30?? Heck, where are finding them for $50???? Nowhere I'd want to eat. And we don't live in a big city, so we don't pay big city prices. I'm also curious why you appeared to ignore tipping on the adult beverage. Drinks (adult or otherwise) deserve a tip as well. If I misunderstood you on that then I apologize, but that's how it came off to me.
I also agree with the above poster, that 15% for tipping went away years ago. 18-20% is pretty much the standard now. Heck, 20% makes the math easier, so that's what I always start with. I've never waited tables, but I've had plenty of friends that worked their way through college doing so. The stories they tell about people stiffing them or leaving some minuscule tip is mind boggling. It's a hard job and deserves respect.
Out of curiosity I decided to put this to the test and, unless things have changed dramatically, this would not be true for us.
Four dollars for the server, $3 for the assistant server and one $1 for the head server per day adds up to $8. Times three people that is $24 a day.
On our last Disney cruise we did the buffet for breakfast and lunch. The only service I remember being provided was table bussing. No table service as it was a buffet and no drink service because there were drink stations. This would only warrant a $2 tip (which is about 7.5% on a $27 bill, not that we calculate it that way) in total at each meal. So $4 there. (I am ignoring the one day we did a sit down lunch as well as the one day we did counter pizza because they would balance out.)
Dinners at a table service restaurant for the three of us before adult beverages and taxes typically costs between $25 and $35. Because Disney has more upscale selections, I will go with $50. Fifteen per cent of this is $7.50. (I am ignoring the dinner we did at Cabanas and the night we did room service.)
$24 - ($6+$7.50) = $12.50
So this would cost me $12.50 a day in tips on other trips, which is just over half what Disney recommends.
I would now like to see how Disney calculates their recommended amount.