tips for maids

Hi

1st time to Thialand, suggestions on how much to tip maids? we%26#39;re doing 4 nights in Bagkok then 10 in Phuket. In the past in Goa we either give to maid or leave in room what do you suggest.

Thanks

LM

tips for maids

Hello

Wages in thailand are very poor to what we have. I have allways given personally to the maid and said thankyou then you know the right person has recieved it. Sometimes if they have done a good job we have tipped inbetween to let her know how much she is appreciated. I do not like to say how much to tip as that is up to the individual .

Julie

tips for maids

I agree. Tip what you can. They really appreciate it. Good karma and all that. We received extra little flowers on the bed, etc so what went around came around in a small way.

a group of us stayed in 3 rooms at the cape panwa hotel for a week. the same maid kept our rooms immaculate for the whole time. each group gave her 500bht (less than $A20) at the end of our stay. she seemed to be a little taken aback. i have no idea what is normal.

Ha, a 1,500 baht tip was about one week%26#39;s salary. No wonder she was taken aback!

On our last visit, I tipped my maids (2) 100 baht per weekly visit each, which is generous, but I%26#39;m happy with that, to me, that%26#39;s how much they deserved (well, one of them anyway, the other is a bit lazy, but you can%26#39;t tip both differently). Mind you, that is on a long term basis, as we stay there for 3 months at a time. When one of them (who is excellent) cleans our boat for the day, I give her 1,000 baht. The agency they work for charged us 500 baht per visit.

It%26#39;s up to you what you tip. Base the tip on how well your maid does her job. Some maids are terribly lazy and don%26#39;t deserve a tip, maybe just some loose coin and others deserve extra. Maids earn between 5,000-8,000 baht per month.

well, i am glad we did the ';right thing';, athena.

it costs $20 an hour to park at sydney airport so the impact on us was minimal.

Maids tend to work near the bottom of most pay scales and the ';minimum wage'; rate in Thailand is roughly 186 baht per day. I may be off a bit on that - but only a bit.

So . . . up to you how much you tip, but 20 baht per day is a nice figure. Up or down from there depending where you are staying and what you are paying.

It%26#39;s nice to tip what you can, but you may also want to avoid being viewed as a white Santa Claus who drips cash at every opportunity. You can, inadvertently, create an entitlement attitude where one expects all visitors to tip generously - or face disapproval. This can be and often is - a problem for some employees that eventually threatens their livelihood.

Though an amount may not seem like much to you - I would suggest staying within the normal boundries for tips and gratuities.

I should add . . . long-term visits probably should tip less than brief visits.

So what should you tip the porter who brings your bags to your room? Bez

B20 is probably plenty. About one hour%26#39;s wages it is - is that not reasonable?

If you have a lot of luggage and it is really a hot and sweaty day - then you might do more.

I agree with Ted also, about tipping too much. But then again, that%26#39;s probably more of point on long term basis stays

When I have tipped 500 baht to a maid in advance, the work I got was terrible, she didn%26#39;t care and then there was the expectation, which can work against them in the end, as people don%26#39;t like to feel expected to pay a tip, but rather to give it as a gift of appreciation, so may not give one, or less of one in the end.