Re: Tipping in USA/Canada

PTravel wrote:

"Qanset" <Qanset@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4732e3b6$0$28659$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The wife and I are planning at trip to USA/Canada in the near future.
Is it true that the Yanks are really hung up on tipping, and that FORGETTING to tip someone is courting disaster???

Like most tourists we will be traveling on a limited budget,this means that anybody expecting free money from us will be advised to look elsewhere.

With all due respect, I'd suggest you don't come.

Bit late for that, I was there 20 years ago. I saw a peurto rican waitress get hostile because a British Visitor forgot to leave her a tip on the table. Her conduct was absolutely disgraceful.


When I travel
internationally, I buy a guidebook and learn what particular practices and customs are observed in the locality I'm visiting. I don't make judgments about them, and definitely do not arrive with a, "we're superior because we don't do things this way," attitude. I also don't insist that locals observe my customs.

I don't think you will enjoy international travel,

Wrong again. Have travelled to Twenty countries in the last 30 years

and I certainly don't
think you'll enjoy the U.S. Everyone will probably be better off if you just stay home.


A colleague of mine who honeymooned in Hawaii was told by a tour bus operator, that he EXPECTED gratuities for his efforts, because his job
was poorly paid. What more can I say.???

I think you've said quite enough. Incidentally, being sheparded around on a tour bus is probably the worst way to visit a foreign county.

Yes and No. Tours offer a tourist with no local knowledge to see sights with guidance of a professional tour guide. They tend to lack flexibility sometimes, but can be good value for others.


I'm going to cop a lot of flak on this subject, but never mind I have and open mind on accepting advice on World Travel.

Advice given: change your attitude or stay home.

No way. My wife and I have strict moral guidelines for tipping. we will NOT be bullied, coerced or manipulated in any way to part with our hard earned money. From time to time we will offer tips at our own discretion and we will be answereable to our own conscience and judgment if we refuse.

I do understand that Americans depending on tips have been disadvantaged by substandard work practices by their employers. Having been down that road previously, I earnestly suggest they find a job where they DONT rely on tips.

You and the rest of
the world will be a lot happier.

Always been happy wherever I go O/S. As the for the rest of the world
they wont even know who I am.
.

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