The crew on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship see a lot of things in their time onboard, including guests making mistakes along the way. Here are eight things to do, avoid, or simply be aware of, for your cruise vacation.
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35 Comments
Sadest thing to see people treat the staff of the ship so poorly. I understand you're on vacation. But that doesn't mean you have to treat them like dirt. I guess I was fortunate to work retail. I only got a glimpse of how people would treat other poorly. Why I try my best to treat them even more then they would expect and such. They deserve it
Try go with the flow or roll with the punches, instead of go with the punches.👍
People are picking up after you for a week or for how many days you are sailing.YOU SHOULD TIP
I thought I saw that they charge you gratuities for them ahead of time what is she talking about !
8 cruise tips… tip, tip tip and, don't forget to… tip…
How does she ask to tip when Royal charges you $13.99 per person per day???
Holland America charges a daily gratuity of USD$15 or 16 at the end of the cruise. I prefer this… this way, I don't have to carry dollar bills everywhere or feel responsible the the crew's happiness and prosperity every time I get a capuccino! I'm on vacation and don't want the mental load.
Pipa seems like a miserable money hungry hag to me. Maybe that's why she "use" to work on a cruise ship. I have a tip for pipa, don't work in the service industry and think you are gonna get rich doing it, expect a more fair pay out of the company that is employing you. Because the company is factoring in tipping to what they are charging customers already, they are just not paying their employees those adjusted costs…when you charge the customer a premium rate the obligation of tipping naturally goes down…blame royal Caribbean or whatever other companies that do the same thing…
That’s great info about the survey! I will definitely take pictures of the name tag this cruise.
We have had some absolutely amazing cruise staff, especially how they went above and beyond in the dining rooms when we had our children. They made our kids laugh and feel so special. These cruise employees are truly angels. We have never had a bad employee experience on RC or Carnival. It’s one of the reasons we love to cruise so much.
Question about tip, if we did the auto gratuity when we bought our tickets should we still bring extra tips?
This video should be called "tips on how to keep the crew happy" Most are common sense but it seems like she is giving a lecture on how she wish guests would have been when she was working on the ships.. I guess I should thank you for the one actual tip you gave on the best time to visit guess services 😒
I find this video was too focused on “being kind” and not on ACCTUAL tips.
When tipping someone, I try to be a good tipper. But when the place adds the tip to the bill or has a "suggested tip" or a "pre-paid" tip… then they've made their bed and will lie in it. They've decided the amount to be tipped already, they aren't getting anything extra.
Most of these "tips" seem to benefit the crew or are simply common courtesy.
You must be joking, one of the “tips” is to tip and education on how this is America and its expected. The cruise lines underpay their staff and tips are “wage subsidization”, i’ll tip if I want to and I won’t tip when I don’t want to. Have a nice day.
It's all double tipping" isn't it? I may be from a first- world country but I worked and saved damned hard to go on a cruise. Massive profits for the investors as they won't pay staff what their worth!👎
So this was tips to benefit the cruise employees not tips to help cruiser’s
This sounds like tips on how to be a 5 star guest on a Cruise ship.
4:10 Permanent mounting of an $80k RED cinema camera?
This is more like what employees want out of cruisers. Not the way around.
This video was worthless and a waste of my time
Pre-paid gratuities, staff should see that on the pass card so there is no confusion. Resort fees include tips so I don’t have to carry cash around my whole trip and worry about how I am going to be treated day to day. Tip extra to regular service people but not stressing over it. These tips really were about tipping,
Automatic gratuities are now at $14.95 USD a day – per passenger on many lines. This is in addition to 18% gratuities already being added to your drinks bill ( coffee, soda, alcohol) . These bills incidentally also shamelessly leave an additional blank line in case you wish to add another (…yes a third) tip. Simply see guest services on boarding and disable the auto gratuities when you board. Instead give an end of cruise cash tip (with the provided cruise line extra gratuity envelope to any crew member (ie. cabin attendant) who has provided additional above and beyond service. Fine if you travel as a couple to leave the auto $14.95 / day gratuities enabled, but we, like many, travel as a family / group of 6 which adds $90 / day to our cruise, or near $1000 in tips over a 12 day cruise, in addition to 18% drink tips and our own cash tips to staff in envelopes provided by the line. We do not even use the formal evening dining, preferring the buffet / cafe. Empathy to the low paid staff, but I don’t feel its my job to ensure they are tipped 3 x over for performing paid regular duties. The cost of my tickets help pay your basic salaries, my additional tips aren’t intended to offset their payroll, or subsidize the cruise line, or be part of your expected salary. We’ve tipped excellent kids club staff $400, room attendants $100 cash, with the the latter incredulously wondering why they didn’t also see the auto gratuities as well. Post cruise we stay in hotels, where I’m not paying staff / room attendants at a hotel $90 a day for their collective services. I think at times crew as kind, professional and friendly as they are, may purposely strive to create a false sense of kinship / intimacy (especially with older passengers) to maximize recognition and tipping, while performing roles they are commonly already paid for. Cruise lines should pay staff accordingly.
8 tips here are more to help employees which I understand is helpful- to employees.
NONE of the tips.is to help the guests (from formal employee experience) except for the apply sunscreen which is already kind of a commen sense to anyone when pool hang out in the sun. Title is very misleading.
Why repeat what she says
So let me get this right we pay our gratuities upfront. Tip are servers and our room stored as we see them. But when the front desk lies to me several times and I put it on the survey all that does is give the manager some information nothing to help me I don’t think I will ever fill out another survey. Basically the survey is lying when they say they wanna make Cruises better in the future. I am going on my second cruise with Royal Caribbean hope it’s better.
OK. Question: On my first cruise, I went into the formal dining room for the first time. At the end of the meal, I thought to myself (shoot, I didn't bring any money for a tip). There was also no bill presented at the end of the meal. How would I tip in the formal dining room when several people were serving us? I have never gotten a satisfactory answer to this. Please clarify: In the formal dining room, am I expected to tip or not, and, what is the best way to achieve this?
Look if I lose a couple hundred bucks at the casino table, I am not tipping the dealer. Speaking of the casinos, I once saw a sealed container that was held the black jack cards. I asked how many decks were in the container, I got the answer, 6. I saw them open the container and, no way were there 6 decks of cards in that container. So, they lied to me. Not the dealers fault — I do blame the cruise lines.
I heard they take tips automatically when we book. The total in the cruise includes automatic gratuity added.
If I buy ultimate beverage package for 4 day cruise for $600 plus they tacked on about$100 gratuities that is more than enough. Whether you use it or not their tips is charged to me already so thats it no more added tips from me. Yes, tipping culture in USA is ridiculous. I rather have flat cover charge like in Europe and not worry about it while I am on vacay esp in a cruise ship. Most staff are from Philippines, India. The get a contract to work 7 mos at a time no days off. Their earnings are surely more than enough in my opinion for the standard of living in their country. In the meantime, I work my ass off to go on vacay and I deserve to enjoy what I work for,not just hand them out just because you did your job well. It is part of their job expectation. I appreciate and thank them really.
What they don't tell you is they charge you $14.50 per day tipping back of the house. You can add a tip to your receipt for the bar or dinners. I left the room attendant $100.00 when I left. (Hope that was enough?)
I just returned from Royal Caribbean cruise to Alaska. Plan on spending up to $500.00 on tips….taxi to & from airport. Leaving ship you can get help for luggage (tip) and they will help get you a taxi. But it was so well worth it! Crew was fabulous! Ship "Ovation of the Seas" was so much fun.
Almost all the tips were self interested, not really tips to help passangers.
I understand tipping is important so I paid for the gratuities upfront. Will the crew members be aware of this so they know not to expect a tip from me?
That video is a waste of time. these tips are not cruse tips these are "tips to get the working better at the cruseship"
The title of this video should have been "8 request from a former cruise ship employee to customers". These are not tips.