Cruise Ship Tipping Guidelines

Why you should tip on some cruise lines.

Cruise ship tipping guidelines. Happy Gringo suggests a per person tip of 10-15day on standard tours and 15-20day on luxury and deluxe tours. And if youre feeling a bit frustrated and lost about the whole thing youre not the only one. In addition a 20 gratuity is added to the bill at bars extra-charge specialty restaurants and ship spas.

Tipping guidelines vary slightly from line to line and are detailed on each cruise ship profile on this site. For most ships it is 1250 per personday 625 per personday for ages 4-14 and guests ages 0-3 incur no gratuity charge. Savvy cruisers know that gratuities begin pierside.

When you order drinks from the bar on board a gratuity is automatically added to your bill. You might have noticed that many cruise ships fly a Flag of. Some cruise lines add a 15 automatic gratuity for spa treatments and.

Some cruise ship spas like those on NCL and Royal Caribbean add on a service fee or gratuity usually about 18. Once on board your cruise account will be charged automatically the set daily gratuity amounts per person in the cabin. In the past most.

Tipping guidelines vary slightly from line to line and are detailed on each cruise ship profile on this site. Automatically added gratuities take the confusion out of tipping on your cruise. Luckily there are guidelines and rules that you can easily follow that can make the whole cruise ship tipping experience a lot more simple.

On cruises departing from China Japan and Singapore the charges range from 1350 to 1750 depending on cabin category. Generally you should plan to tip your room steward 550 to 650 per person per day and plan an equal amount for your dining room waiter and half of that for the busboy. For some ships it is 1350 per personday and 1650 per personday for suite guests.