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Fellas: When staying at the Dunn Inn, in one of the smaller rooms...what do you think is an appropriate tip for the maid? Room is not too messed up, etc...
CH

$10, 4 - 6 hershey bliss melt-away-center chocolates, 1 bag of unopened trail mix (with raisins not cranberrys), and 1 large, 700 colones, ripe pineapple.

Anytime I can help, buddy!

Dean

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Not sure about the Dunn Inn, but when I stay at the SL, I try to leave at least 4-500 colones per day.

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I would leave about 1500/day, but I like Dean's pineapple idea...

I tip when I leave, no chance of me remembering to tip everyday...


Cujo

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Cujo...I try to tip daily due to the whole "here and now" mindset...not wanting to sound disrespectful to anyone, I have found that if the maids get something every day..stuff is more straight.
CH

I hear ya...I guess it depends on where you're at. I feel rediculously comfortable at the SL so basically on the first day I round up the girls and tell them I'll pay them when I leave. Now a few years later, they just know and it seems to work well. So I would say everybody has their own way, even when it comes to tipping. But mostly I do it this way because I don't even want to have to think about tips everyday... (yes, I'm that mentally lazy )


Cujo

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"Pain is the fuel that fans the flames of my pyre. A battle plan is only as good as the general carrying it out on the field. This is my war son, and I have the biggest bombs and the smallest conscience"...

I like the everyday approach, so whoever is doing the cleaning, gets the propina. Depending on how many of those nuisance coins I have, I get rid of the coins by tipping the maid between 1000 and 1500 colones per day.

I usually leave ¢1000 (red) bill daily. If I leave a note asking for extra towels, or something else, I'd leave another red.

I think a 1 mil colon note is appropriate in most circumstances. If she goes out out of her way to get you extra towels or adjust her cleaning schedule to clean your room at the time you prefer then add an additional 1 mil note.

I have always found that when I am staying more then one night in the hotel it is worthwhile to seek out the maid and ask her preference. Would you like a daily tip or the total at the end of my stay? That allows them to make the choice of which bests works for their financial situation.

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Alex Levine

I like Irish Drifter's strategy to ask the maid her preference. I always left the tip at the end of the stay on all my travels all my life, but after listening to the brothers above i think i will tip per day. I think 2 mil a day is very cool.

I tipped 2 mil at the La Amistad because I had laundry every day.

I take a bunch of US $1 bill and I tip $2 per day. and at the end of my trip if I have any coins left over; which I always do I leave for her..

Why not just tip a a 1000 colon note? It is almost the same amount a she does not have the hassle of exchanging the dollar bills for colones.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

the $2 is a little bit more than 1000 Colon....

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