Tipping cruise porters is a customary practice, as they are responsible for handling luggage upon arrival at the port. It is important to note that tipping is not mandatory and can help ensure that the porter handles your bag with care. For baggage handlers at embarkation ports, an average of 5 is usually sufficient. If you plan to drop off larger pieces of luggage, give the portside luggage handler a 2- 5 tip per bag, depending on size, weight, and amount of luggage.
For guided tours, a tip of 2-5 per person for half-day tours and 5-10 for full-day excursions is standard. Cruisers should also bring cash to tip the porters who bring their bags onto the ship (usually 2 per bag), as well as tour guides in port (5 to 10 per person for half-day tours, 10 to 20 for full-day excursions, and 2 for non-guide drivers). The cost of prepaid tipping on a cruise ship typically ranges from 14 to 25 per person, per day, depending on the cruise line and stateroom type.
A minimum of 5.00 per bag is usually given at the airport, up to the room, and when leaving the cruise. Most ports have Tipping not required signs, but it is not worth taking a chance on ruining your cruiser. Many cruisers choose to tip porters, anywhere from a buck or two per bag, or a larger sum for all bags within their party.
In the USA, the average tip is between 10-20, depending on how many bags you have. Expedition cruise lines may include gratuities, while those that don’t recommend a gratuity are generally around 10 to 15 per person, per day.
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Tips about tips. Makes total sense to me! 🙂 Rule of thumb for me for porters and shuttle drivers: I tip $1 per bag plus $1 per person. So, for example, when I’m a solo cruiser, I usually have 1 bag, so that would be $2. Carlos and I sometimes pack light and share a bag, so that would be $3. If we each had our own bag (like we will for Alaska this week), $4. When Carlos, his mom, and I went on Oasis, we had 3 people and 4 bags. We tipped $7. It’s good to talk about these kinds of things because my European friends who have visited find tipping here scary. They don’t want to do too little and look like a cheap foreigner, but they don’t want to tip too much and overpay for something that might already be expensive.
The cruise line is forced to let the along side showman’s union to set your bag on a cart. The make about $30.00 a hour. The cruise line employee do the work. They have tried to intimidate us that our page would be lost if the tip was to small. my wife is scared our bags be lost even if I put the bags on the cart.
I do $5 per person, but I never travel more than 2 people. For a big family I think it would be reasonable to cap it at Somewhere between $10-$20. The porters see you are a family, so I have to think they are not expecting the same as they might for 5 adults. Heck, at Bayonne the last time we went the porter unloaded and moved on to the next car so fast that by the time I pulled my wallet out he was lost in the sea of porters and I had no idea which one to tip. So the disembark porter got a really nice tip at the end, just to keep my karma straight. 😉