advice about tipping pls

[angiepangie]

I was hoping that maybe someone on here can give a bit of advice with regards to tipping. This coming weekend a friend and I are going to make use of one of these evouchers. It is two beauty treatments followed by afternoon tea in a nice swanky hotel in town.

We have paid for the voucher already but service is not included. On a previous occasion ? a restaurant visit - the service was not included either but then added to the final bill plus the drinks so we knew this was all fine. However I am not sure how to best deal with it this as these are basically three separate parts provided by three different people in the hotel ? tip three times (and in that case how much) or only at the end (in case there is a bill as it is afternoon tea so unlikely to order anything on top of the things provided)??? :-S am a bit clueless about this and would really appreciate some comments rather than looking like a scrooge (admittedly this might appear so anyway since I had to purchase a voucher deal rather than the full priced version..). thanks.:))

[treehugger]

Don't tip for the beauty treatments and do tip for the tea - 15%.

[the-e-dealer]

Leave A Tip

Voucher!

[Devil]

Do not tip.

[Annette Curtain]

If you want to tip then do it.

The girls that work in swanky spa hotels are paid appallingly. Plus the working conditions are pretty cr&p too.

[Huguenot]

I don't really agree with Nette's point of view.

Tips are used by business as a way of justifying poor wages and conditions - like handing over 50p in the street you may assuage your bleeding heart, but you're reinforcing a destructive cycle.

If you care about the working conditions of staff you should be campaigning for clarity on the 10% 'service charge' which was a formalisation of tipping that got absorbed by companies looking to drive profits. You should support campaigns for catering businesses that sign up to employee charters.

I never pay a tip in businesses that charge me 10% for service - it's a scam.

[dulwichgirl2]

Ap, I think you are sensible to get the e voucher! Why pay more than you need?

I also agonise about tipping and then give massive tips and feel irritated.

My husband says: tip in the uk only if service is exceptional. Tip in the USA all the time.

Otoh when he didn't tip the bags carrier recently, I was mortified especially as the poor elderly guy was hanging around telling us all about the room to give time for a tip to be produced. Aaaggghh. I felt awful.

If the hotel adds service I am clear though - no tip.

Envy you your day! It sounds lovely.

[the-e-dealer]

Yes just explain to the poor Waitress that you are campaigning against Companys taking tips or charging 10% service charge and you therefore refuse to leave one. I'm sure she will understand.

[Huguenot]

The waitress is as likely to understand as the drunken scrote on the street asking for 50p.

Ie. not at all.

Ad I said, it's likely that we'll all be overwhelmed by a pointless and generous instinct to tip. Don't. By offering penny pinching vapid tips to waitresses you are simply reinforcing and invigorating the exploitation.

The 50p you give them may well make you sleep easier, but for the record, it makes you a shit.

[angiepangie]

Thanks all. Will take some money just in case (and especially since last time the only thing i had was ?10 and i felt this was too much for the lady who got us our jackets and was politely standing in the corner looking very expectantly, ahh mortifying to just have to say thank you and shuffle out of the door altough admittedly nobody tips me when i do my job).

[the-e-dealer]

50p Huguenot you mean git.