Personally I don't suggest to people that to keep their cruise cost down, they should cut down the daily tip charged to the room. Instead how about having one less drink per person per day to save the same amount? The people on cruise lines work incredibly hard for ridiculously long hours and still somehow manage to smile even when faced with the most demanding customers. While I am happy that you personally tip your stewards, I'm sure you've also eaten in the buffets or have enjoyed the cleanliness of public areas/bathrooms. Your daily tip also goes to the people that work there. While you may feel you are making a statement to the cruise line that you don't want to carry the burden of paying their employees, I can assure you that your tipping less will not in any way force the cruise line to pay them more. All it accomplishes is ensuring that the employees get paid less than they would have otherwise.
Your tipping less does not affect the cruise line's bottom line, just the employee's; so if your goal really is to show your disdain for how cruise lines do business, I would think boycotting cruising entirely would make more sense.
Please don't feel like I am attacking you, I just want to point out that you are punishing the wrong people. And I definitely wanted to present a counterpoint to the people who might have read your post and were thinking about doing the same thing. Cruise employees work incredibly hard for pennies (most of which they send home to families they only get to see a few months out of the year).
---In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <jasnow@...> wrote :
we have never been on casino cruise , although we have had many offers over the years, or a ncl cruise but we have cruised other lines that charge a flat daily tipping fee per person.
we found out that we could go to the purser's desk and tell them that we didn't want the amt of daily tipping they were charging. evidently they cant force you to tip. we usually tell them to charge us 5 or six dollars a day and then we tip our cabin steward and waiters we have seen several times a week seperately.this tipping fee is just a ploy by the cruise co to be able to keep wages low for all service employees and try to force thepublic to make up the difference.
not the way I wish to do business.
jas
