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Old 07-07-2009, 12:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can someone help me on what is the proper tipping amount

I am going back to Aruba again, and have not found not how much to leave for tips. Every bar or restaurant I went to included a %16 percent tip. But when the bill was brought to my table it was marked in bold black letters for another tip. Everywhere in the world I have gone to so far, when the tip is included , that was it. But if you tip another %20 on top of the %16 then Aruba becomes very expensive and you are tipping %36 percent . I ask a few times, and was told the the bar/restaurant/hotel collects these tips, keeps them, and does not give them to the employee's, and this was upsetting to me. I have ask other people who have visited Aruba and all have said it made their trip unfomfortable also.

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Old 07-07-2009, 01:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 07-07-2009, 02:59 PM   #3 (permalink)
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>>>> "was told the the bar/restaurant/hotel collects these tips, keeps them, and does not give them to the employee's"
------ Usually the person who is stating that is a server there expecting another tip. From good sources that 15 or 16% is split between all the help.
This means servers, bus people, cooks, cleaners, ...... If the service is great I leave 5% in cash so I know the server gets it that day.
>>>> " and this was upsetting to me"
------ Don't let it. If you go back to Aruba again can give you a list of restaurants that want your business without any of that.

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Old 07-07-2009, 06:01 PM   #4 (permalink)
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....what we have always done is if the service is we add another 10% of the original bill MINUS the already added in tip.
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?? Hum... Got an example....
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Old 07-07-2009, 08:07 PM   #5 (permalink)
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ya i am as clear as mud right?

ex:
my dinner bill for 3 of us at RESTAURANT is $100
the add in that the restaurant adds in automatically is $15%

so they present the bill to me and it is for $115.
i add an additional 5% or 10% based on the $100

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Old 07-07-2009, 08:19 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I see

Thanks for explaining Andrea.
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Old 07-07-2009, 08:25 PM   #7 (permalink)
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as ricky said to lucy "Lucy, you got some "splaining to do".

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