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Tipping butlers at sandals resorts.
During your sandals vacation you ll notice that the butlers pay attention to detail in a way that guests are never left disappointed.
On resort sandals and beaches follow a strict no tipping policy with 2 exceptions.
Butlers and red lane spa attendants.
For tipping guidelines and more information please contact us using the form below or at call us at 817 386 0701.
What to tip a resort butler.
While it s not mandatory we suggest tipping your bus driver based on the distance to the resort.
Your do tip your butlers.
It is considered standard to tip a butler who provides good service 5 percent of the room rate.
Sandals and beaches resorts take great pride in training all of their staff members to provide top level service without accepting tips.
The guys carrying your bags at the airport do not work for sandals and work solely on tips.
Tipping of butlers is not.
Therefore when booking butler service rooms at sandals resorts you should budget anything from 50 100 a day in addition to your holiday budget.
Our specialists have had the good fortune to vacation at all the sandals resorts and stay in almost every room category from entry level to the millionaire s suite but everyone has different ideas about the.
For example if you stay at a place that costs 250 per night for four nights the total room rate would be 1 000 and the butler s share would be 50.
So do you need a butler what does a butler do is a butler suite worth the extra cost and how much do you tip a butler at sandals.
This is because sandals has already included the cost of the gratuities into their all inclusive package.
That means that you ve already paid the tips when you prepaid your vacation before your arrival.
The butler service is what made the trip for us.
Sandals butlers are often the most personable of staff at the resort and those who make it to the ranks of butler do so because of their passion to help and make people happy.
That said how much you tip your butler is ultimately up to your discretion.
While at sandals whitehouse we tipped out butlers on the last day we gave them each 200 for a 8 night stay our friends who traveled with us did the same.
I suggest tipping them 1 to 2 a bag.
If a butler provides good service it is standard to tip 5 percent of the room rate.
For example if your room rate is 300 per night and you stay five nights your total room expense would be 1 500 and you would tip your butler 75.
Sandals have a strict no tipping rule in all their resorts but this does not apply to their butler service.
Once again the bus drivers are outsourced by sandals and are allowed to accept tips.
Regarding the amount of tip we tell our clients the more you use them the greater you should tip just remember that sandals butlers are the only ones on the property that will be able to accept tips besides spa personnel.