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Vijay
Just Boarded
Member # 2773

posted 02-07-2002 12:04 PM

July 2000, we were on the Carnival Inspiration. Phenomenal ship... clean, fairly new, and tonnes of activities and night life. At the end of the cruise, you were instructed to place the suggested tipping of $3.50 per person per day for each of the cabin stewards, waiters etc. Fine. This gave you the optoin to place either more or less depending on the level of service you recieved. I agree.
Jan 2002, we were on Norwegian's Sky, where tips were automatically added to your shipboard card @ $10 per person per day. i am not quite sure I agree with that in that there is no room for tipping LESS, but certainly, you can go to the persers desk and suggest more $$ to be added.

Thoughts, Suggestions??

Vijay

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 02-07-2002 03:29 PM

Go to the Purser's Desk and ask that the amount be adjusted for less if you're not happy about something.

This is how it is done on other lines with the same policy - Cunard, Crystal etc.

At least if you ask to have the tipping adjusted downward it should hint that something is not right on the ship and a smart Guest Relations person should ask what id wrong and then go ahead and get it fixed.

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Grant
First Class Passenger
Member # 1000

posted 02-07-2002 07:38 PM

good point Jekyll

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Green
First Class Passenger
Member # 171

posted 02-07-2002 10:24 PM

QUOTE]Originally posted by Jekyll:
Go to the Purser's Desk and ask that the amount be adjusted for less if you're not happy about something.

Good point. but how many Guest Relations people will ask the question -more important - are passengers prepared to answer honestly?......few, I would suggest - tipping is a very personal thing and few people will spell out what they are actually giving - particularly those who 'stiff' their servers.

Much as I dislike prepaid tips, I begin to think it is the way to go. Reasonably assessed - and I don't mean $10.00 per day per person for, e.g. cabin stewards few cruisers will object to prepaying - truly poor service is justification for requesting a decrease - cheap skates/stiffers will have a more difficult/maybe even an embarrassing time justifying a reduction request......waiters, bus boys etc. work hard but I'm not prepared to pay their wages - that's the cruise Lines' responsibility - an additional, personally given at my discretion tip is for service exceeding what is promised.... I honour that. Maybe it is time!

How do others feel?

[ 02-07-2002: Message edited by: Green ]

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hooked on cruising
First Class Passenger
Member # 1221

posted 02-10-2002 04:38 PM

last year on the Sensation we were bombarded from day one about tipping everyone and everything!!!! The final straw came on the port talk for New Orleans when they said remember get your extra cash while you are in New O for tips as the machines will run out of money, this was mentioned again while passengers where waiting to get of the ship! Then at supper that night it was again said about tipping and when the guy said "don't forget to tip your matri di as he has a large family to support back home" everyone at our table was furious we hadn't even seen the guy until that night! I was amazed at what happened on the last night though. My husband and I argued about the amount of tips we should give. Our cabin steward was awesome but our dining room waiter was lousy. I wanted only to give the cabin boy a tip and not give the waiter one but my husband said we couldn't do that so we switched them so the cabin boy got more that the waiter! When we went to dinner that night we were the only ones out of 4 families who had put their names and cabin #s on the outside of the envelope. when we all left the dining room for the last time I asked the others why and they said that they hadn't put anything in the waiters and another of the couples had only put loose change! I was shocked it cost us hundreds of dollars in tips for all the neccessary people and these others got away with nothing or close to it. I believe this happened because of the added pressure to tip from the crew. If the service is good people should tip without all the pressure

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Amerikanis
First Class Passenger
Member # 1835

posted 02-11-2002 04:32 AM

hooked on Cruising, in your Case, the Things are very easy.

Your Cabin Waiter deserves an Tip, if you want to give him one.

For an lousy Waiter in the Dining Room, there is no way.

And the Maitre'd i would tell, he should be eliminated from the ship urgently.

Note this in your Comment Form and tell him POrivate from Face to Face.

O.K.: in the Future, he will not be your declared friend, on the other hand, if he is able to self-critic, he should ask himselves "why" and when doing so, he has the Chance to change...

There is no Necessary, to give an Person an Tip, who arrives only on the Evening, when the Tips are expected....

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