Tip Recomendations

[2VV]

Refresh my memory please, how much should we tip the gentlemen that take your bags at the port?

[AzCruiseGurl]

I always tip 2 dollars per bag. I want to make sure bags get to

where they are suppose to be going!

If you dont tip them enough you never know what might happen

to your bags!!

[LHT28]

In Miami they say "No Tips required" but we tip $1. per bag

 

They are always in our cabin

[honeywell]

$1 to $2 per bag is the norm.

[behindthescenes]

I think that $1.00 per bag they take is appropriate for the pier luggage taker.

[2VV]

What about tippping Taxi drivers, whats the norm?

[cruiserbryce]

we usually do $1 per checked bag

[laplaya29]

What if the cruise ship is already charging me $22.00 per day ($11.00 each for 2 of us) for tips. Do I still tip ?

 

This is my first cruise.

 

Thanks.

Bill

[LHT28]

What if the cruise ship is already charging me $22.00 per day ($11.00 each for 2 of us) for tips. Do I still tip ?

 

This is my first cruise.

 

Thanks.

Bill

 

NO

You can tip extra if you choose to people that may have done extra for you that is up to you

also mention them by name in the comment forms

[cruiserbryce]

we usually do $1 per port

[cruiserbryce]

oops...bag:rolleyes:

[tedjazz]

Refresh my memory please, how much should we tip the gentlemen that take your bags at the port?

 

You could tip everyone who puts their hand out and there are plenty, but the guys at the ports moving your bags eight feet from your transportation to the luggage bin are Longshoremen and they make between $23 and $30 and hour without tips. So go ahead if you want to.

[CC Help Michell]

You could tip everyone who puts their hand out and there are plenty, but the guys at the ports moving your bags eight feet from your transportation to the luggage bin are Longshoremen and they make between $23 and $30 and hour without tips. So go ahead if you want to.

 

I make that decision based on how many steps it is from the person taking my bag (whatEVER their hourly rate is) to the open water into which they might accidentally drop my bag, or to the cart for the other cruise ship (the one not going where I am), etc. That $1-$2 has always seemed okay to me! :D

[Cuizer2]

Refresh my memory please, how much should we tip the gentlemen that take your bags at the port?

Typical is $1.00 to $2.00 per bag, depending on how heavy it is.

[tedjazz]

I make that decision based on how many steps it is from the person taking my bag (whatEVER their hourly rate is) to the open water into which they might accidentally drop my bag, or to the cart for the other cruise ship (the one not going where I am), etc. That $1-$2 has always seemed okay to me! :D

 

Now isn't that a sad, sad commentary, gotta worry about where your bags end up...Davey Jones Locker or on your Crusie Ship. Hmmm, what have we come to? Some people don't mind being threatened by Thugs. I guess I do. If I'm handing out $$$ I would rather my room steward or waiter get what the Thug would have got.

[scubaran]

What if the cruise ship is already charging me $22.00 per day ($11.00 each for 2 of us) for tips. Do I still tip ?

 

This is my first cruise.

 

Thanks.

Bill

 

We also pick a bar on the ship that will be our "before/after" dinner drink bar. Even though the bar takes a 18% service charge per drink this is spread amoung all the bar staff. So I've found getting friendly with the bartender and palming a dollar or two while shaking his hand as I leave goes a LONG way towards good service. I don't know how many "free sample" drinks I've gotten and big smiles as we enter the bar but the "little extra" gets you a "lot of friendship". :D

 

Randall

[Cuizer2]

we usually do $1 per port

and $2 for per starboard?