How Much Of A Tip Do You Leave For Mousekeeping?

[crazeedizneefinatic]

Another thing I often wondered..... If we get good service we leave $5 a day on the nightstand usually with a note of thanks. Usually something my son has drawn. If a holiday happens we also leave a little present. Last February 14th my son left a small box of chocolates. We don't leave the tip weekely in case someone else does the room the last day. It would not be fair. As a rule we always do have the same Mousekeeper but on 2 occassions we have also had different people. We have learned to leave it daily from now on. It will be interesting to see the poll results.

[CanadianWDWFan]

Since there are four of us, we leave $5 everyday. I agree with not leaving a tip at the end of the trip. There is nothing to say you won't get the ame Mousekeeper everyday of your stay.

My DW likes to make up envelopes with Disney stickers on it for Mousekeeping.

5 days to go!

[karenrarintogo]

We do a $1/person/day. So when it's me and my husband we give 2.

[BronxTigger]

DH and I left $2/day for the mousekeepers. There were only two of us and we kept the room very tidy. We had everything put away each day before we left for the parks, so the mousekeepers could do their job without having to deal with our clutter.

[karenrarintogo]

....and the last day we leave $5, since it's more work to turn the room over for new guests.

[Strmchsr]

Technically, it's supposed to be a non-tipped position, but we also do $1/person/day.

[dizneeat]

Since there are only 2 of us we usually leave 2 dollars a day. But we do leave special little presents which we pick up during our trips to DLRP, like special postcards or pins.

[mecarroll]

I leave $3 per day for my DW and me.

[Jasper]

You can call me a cheapskate and I am sure my comments are likely to stir up a debate, but we no longer leave a tip for housekeeping. The reason we don't leave a tip is very simple. . .we don't see any difference in the quality of the service regardless of whether we leave a tip or not.

We also don't leave a tip because of a conversation I had with two Disney cast members several years ago. At that time I was at Disney World attending a seminar put on by Disney. During one of the presentations, a person from casting and a person in charge of housekeeping were addressing us. They mentioned that Disney feels that tipping Mousekeeping staff creates a situation that de-motivates many of the Mousekeeping staff.

The speakers said that they want Mousekeeping staff to provide the same, high-level, quality of service regardless of whether they receive a tip or not. When guests regularly leave a tip they have found that some of the staff end up working for the tip and not doing what they are being paid regularly to do.

The speakers also said that their surveys over the years have regularly shown that poor service from Mousekeeping along with poor service from those Cast Members who sell admission to the parks have the most significant impact on guest's overall satisfation with their stay at Disney World. Of course, this is among people staying on property, and does not include those staying off property!

After hearing the above, we decided not to tip Mousekeeping anymore.

[tinkerbell615]

We usually give $1.00 per person per day. There are usually 4 of us so we leave $4.00-$5.00. We will have two rooms this year with 5 people so I don't really know how to work this one. Maybe $3.00 per room per day. I really can't afford to leave much more than that every day. We will be there 7 days and although $42.00 does not seem like much $ when you are visiting Disney... we are on a pretty tight budget.

[crazeedizneefinatic]

I never thought of it that way. Jasper,Thanks for the input! Although our room is always picked up by me (I am a neat freak, blame my mother!) I always left a tip. I cannot imagine what some of these Mousekeepers encounter. I had a friend in college work for a famous hotel chain, not connected with Disney in any way, for some extra cash. THe stories I heard about what slobs people were or what they expected the housekeepers to do. I know that is a choosen job but geez I could never never put up with it. I always left a tip because who knows what that person encountered that day, I don't wanna think about it. It might have lifted their spirits a little. Although your post does make lots of sense.

[crazeedizneefinatic]

I know it can add up the days you are there! $42 is some souvenier money!

[walstib]

The reason we don't leave a tip is very simple. . .we don't see any difference in the quality of the service regardless of whether we leave a tip or not.


The speakers said that they want Mousekeeping staff to provide the same, high-level, quality of service regardless of whether they receive a tip or not. .

We always tip $5 each day in a special envelope and don't really expect to see any special treatment for it.
I guess that we have always been lucky in our stays to get that "high quality service" through out the whole week of our stay.
I view that as quality of the mousekeepers, not anticipation for a tip.

[Seasonscraps]

When we stay in a villa on points, we don't tip since there is no mousekeeping - just new towels after a few days since we handle our own trash.

When we book a regular stay, we tip about $2-3 per day for 2 adults on the last day of stay.

[ncbyrne]

Like most others, we leave $1 per day, per person. BUT....if the mousekeeping is bad, we don't tip at all! Our last trip at ASMu, it was so bad it was comical! Our mousekeeper most days was a middle aged man! The spread on the bed was put on sideways and was barely on one side of the bed and completely tucked in on the other (presumably to get it off the floor!). The bathroom was never touched. The third day we specifically did things to tell if he had touched it - he didn't! I suppose we could, or even should, have complained, but we were only in the room to shower and sleep - we'll let the next person rat on the guy. I didn't want him to be fired, but I certainly was NOT going to give him a tip! (Oh, and BTW, I've never had service this bad before, onsite or off).

[crazeedizneefinatic]

Last time we stayed at ASM we had a Mousekeeper that was absolutely terrible! Let's not talk about tip here! The rubbish was not taken out for 2 days. The 3rd day my husband put the rubbish right in the path you walk, she finally emptied it. There were 4 people in our room and she would leave towels for 2. We approached her one day and as we were talking she shook her head as if she did not understand english. A few minutes later we all left the room only to find her conversing to another Mousekeeper in English. We still chuckle about it. We saved some money on tips that stay.

[LIGHTNING MC-DAD]

We leave $5 per day. We have (4) people in the room.

[pogo]

We leave three dollars a day for two of us if the service is good.

[DisneyorBust]

We leave $5 per day for the 5 of us. We do the "Mousekeeping" envelopes and leave them as we leave the room in the morning to start another fun filled day inWDW!
I always tip good service. If I receive poor service, I won't tip but I will (politely) let management know so that they can correct the problem.

[wdw_bound]

We typically leave $4 or $5 / day (four of us).

In December, we will be travelling with the inlaws, and have requested adjoining (not necessarily connecting) rooms. MIL is infamous for her lousy tipping - at restaurants, I usually quietly supplement whatever she has left so that I can return there to eat again

If our rooms end up being next door or even across the hall from one another, will we have the same mousekeeper? It would be much easier for me to leave the tip for both rooms in one envelope in our room, noting on the envelope that this is for both rooms. I don't think I'd be able to sneak into their room each morning to leave a second tip envelope, and I don't think I could deal with having tipping as a conversation topic for the rest of my married life

What do you guys think?