Is Room Service Charged To Your Room

I take 5 simple rules for tipping that I think cover you anywhere, but I'm the showtime to admit that tipping can be disruptive and even induce fearfulness in travelers.

That'due south why I recall it'due south so strange that hotels, where are supposed to accept care of their guests, are often ground zero in the tipping defoliation. Shouldn't hotels tell you lot what is expected? Or improve still, but make it easier at to the lowest degree include tipping in the resort fee or the venue fee on top of the resort fee.

Here's i of the simplest things a hotel can do. If you gild room service, food is brought to your room, that'due south a service. Room service by and large has a service charge. Great problem solved! Or is it? You're asked to sign for the meal, and there's usually a line to add a tip. Does the service charge have you covered, or is the hotel pocketing that and you're expected to tip once again?

The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando virtually Disney World had this on their room service menu when I visited: the service charge includes gratuity.

The elementary solution, for hotels that don't do this, is to enquire the person delivering your meal whether or not they're taken care of by the service accuse? That should solve for any ambiguity.

However hotels should proactively address the points of pain, confusion, and anxiety of their guests – which they know are at that place, and repeated in interactions every mean solar day, the way that the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress does: by telling guests exactly what to wait, and what is expected.