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I will be arriving March 28 for a week of fun and I`m not sure how much to tip the hotel staff.

I have read and heard different views on this matter....

however, on my first two trips, I made sure I tipped the cleaning lady 1000 colones (about $2) the first day and instructed her to always leave at least 4 towels extra (and extra toilet paper) for use by my little darling visitors.....

everyday after that, I would leave $1 to $2 for the cleaning lady on a daily basis instead of at the end of the stay....

one my first visit, at the Presidente, the cleaning lady seemed appreciative....

on my second visit, at a lower end Tico Hotel, the cleaning lady thought I was Moses and told me I was the only one that left her a daily tip...she took real good care of the extra towels/tp supplies....

at a western style hotel like the Presidente or SL, $1-$2 a day is small when compared to the price of the room.....at a lower end Tico style hotel where the room rates are much, much lower, a one or two dollar a day tip is a much higher percentage/rate....nevertheless, it's only a couple of bucks extra and seems to keep the supply of extra towels and tp coming...

if you're lucky, 4 extra towels a day won't be enough.....on my second trip, I had days when the little darlings would lay waste to entire rolls of tp and not leave a dry towel in the room (I'm into cluster f*cks)

anyway, that's my opinion....let's see what some of the Vets have to say

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I always leave the maids $2.00 per day, and I leave it everyday instead of at the end of the trip.......the reason being that different maids do the room almost every day, and it would not be fair on the last day for that maid to get the whole lump sum.

It must be a good tip, because the maids always seem to remember me when I return to CR after 5 months.

I always ask the maids to leave 5 large bath towels, and usually, all those towels get used in a day.

Zebra