The number 1 that I hate traveling

Veröffentlicht: 17. Juli 2022, 03:50 Uhr

Aktualisiert: 09. Juni 2025, 23:06 Uhr

Von: wom87

In some countries this is not a problem, including Switzerland, French-Polynesia and South Korea. For others it is practically impossible to do it right. Of course I speak of the mining field of the tip. It is undoubtedly the most important thing I hate about traveling.

Before you start an attack on wages, let me explain briefly that I hate to give tips, not because of the costs, but because of the unbearable embarrassment of the whole thing.

I will not lie that I don't feel a stab of regret when this happens:

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and I feel really terrible when that happens:

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but most than anything about traveling, I hate the embarrassment when that happens:

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It is horror not to know. And I'm a Brit, so take this horror and quadruple him. We are a nation that is obsessed in an unnatural way of maintaining the decency. They give a British a terrible haircut and instead of thinking about the humiliating option, expressing a complaint, he will smile and say that he loves it. Correctly choose his number and he will tell you gently that he believes that you have the wrong number, even though he is 100% sure that it is not chemical cleaning. Step on his foot and he will insist to tell you how much he is sorry that his foot was in the way. My point is that we are very careful not to rock the boat, especially in social situations - which brings me back to tip.

In some cities it seems that everyone and their uncle expect a tip just because you let their area code inhale (Marrakech, someone?). In others, the gesture seems to be incredibly embarrassing to the locals. For example, our taxi driver in Jordan refused to take a tip, as well as the cleaner that Peters found and gave back. "Please - I'm just doing my job," he insisted.

What I want so much is a clear and simple indicator of how much tip I should give for different things in different countries. And with that I bring you to my suggestion: an app that tells you the average, median and modus tip for a certain activity in a certain country. (In my eyes, I christened it "Tip Advisor", although I am sure that we would be sued.) Similar to Tripadvisor, the App Crowdsourcing data would use an existing database with points of interest (hotels, restaurants, activities)) into different roles. So the next time I let my luggage bring my luggage to my room, we say at the Klaus K Hotel in Helsinki, I know how much tip I should give the porter, or if I go to a chic dinner in Veeraswamy in London, I will not give too little tip (or give the waiter too much tip). With this app I can be sure that I am extremely average. There the British feel most comfortable: safely in midfield.