I recently took Amtrak for the first time returning home from central IL to east TX. It’s an 11-12 hour drive, a 4-6 hour flight with a connection (or a considerably larger ask for a friend on the other end to come pick me up in DFW), and a ~17-hour train ride. The train actually takes me right to the small town I…

You magnificent Bastard.

“If you really are us, what age are we now?”

Between work travel, and extensive personal travel, I have stayed in countless hotel rooms.

Exactly. When I book a hotel room I am renting a room to stay in for X number of nights, not renting a room for X number of nights and also responsible for the job duties and wages of people working in the hotel. I’m not going to trash the place or leave the toilet unflushed when I leave but that’s about where it ends.

no fucking way am i tipping hotel staff 10 bucks without them giving me an enthusiastic hand job with eye contact first.

This article is pretty clearly for people who go out of their way to make other people’s lives a tiny bit easier.

Not to mention if this becomes so commonplace that staff becomes “tipped” employees, that you bet your ass management is going to reduce them to 4$/hr.

I leave the DND sign up because I prefer they stay out. It’s not that I am hiding anything, I would just prefer they not come in, and I don’t need the service. I realize it’s not a legally binding contract. In all the many, many hotels I have stayed at, I have never come back to find my room clean when I left the DND…

Truth!  Over there all they want to do is tip shame. 

My thoughts exactly!

$10/day per person for tips? Have you been talking to the Salty Waitress?

$10 per day, per person?!?

Lolwut? $10/day/person?! So for a week long trip, a small family (or group of friends) could tip a few hundred dollars?

I hear ya. Sounds like you lucked out. Unfortunately I’m one of those weirdos that likes an ultra plush mattress, so I’m not sure any of the expanding mattresses by mail would work for me anyway.

I hear ya. Sounds like you lucked out. Unfortunately I’m one of those weirdos that likes an ultra plush mattress, so…

Yep, on the bright side my wife and I were sold on the bed the first night we used it.

Yep, on the bright side my wife and I were sold on the bed the first night we used it.

That’s the exact reason I’ll never be able to buy a mattress online. Unless they send a crew to come pick it up when I don’t like it, it doesn’t matter how many nights are free. If you can’t physically return it, the trial period length doesn’t matter.

That’s the exact reason I’ll never be able to buy a mattress online. Unless they send a crew to come pick it up when…

Well that’s concerning lol. I took some sickening wide angle shots with my new S10+ there too, would have never thought to watermark them but it is what it is. I had a lot of fun there and it is such a thrilling experience trekking up those stairs!

We had two sent to Hawaii. Ours is very comfortable and we kept it.

We had two sent to Hawaii. Ours is very comfortable and we kept it.