Tilting in the UK - How, when and how

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Question: Tipping in the UK - When is expected and how much should I give a tip?

Wherever I go failover rules or "label" are different. I've heard that the tip is included in the bill in the UK? It is true? And if not, is, how much and when the peak to peak?

Answer: Tipping in the UK, such as tilting in most other places can be annoying and embarrassing if you are wrong. UK tilt if it is not also a factor that can add the cost of travel unnecessarily.

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To save money (especially if you are an American traveler and used by 20% of the works), and to ensure everyone gets a fair deal, here are a few quick tips, tipping in the UK.

Tipping in restaurants

Service charge (tip) of 12.5% to 15% can be added to your bill, but the practice is not universal in restaurants in the UK. And it's not always easy to determine whether. Some restaurants can print your policy service charge on their menus (long after the time gone you pay your bill), while others bear the brunt of the service clear to the account.

Do not be embarrassed to ask. And, not to be disturbed to read your bill. It is not uncommon for servers let the "total" white line on the credit card equipment, tacitly invites add a tip, if it has already been charged for the service.

If the service is included in the price, do not you should say something, but you can add additional attention a small amount of a particular good or service. If the service is not included, expect 12-15 percent tip.

Tips, pubs

You should not tip with cash for drinks at bars. When the waiter gives EXPECIALLY good service or fills several big orders for you, you can add a small amount (the price of a pint of beer, for example) has to offer, with the words "and have for you," or something similar. The barman (or barmaid) You can have a drink on-site casting or put money aside for a drink later.

If you do not on food in bars, to find either, but with the growth of gastro pubs, this has led to a kind of gray zone. If you feel the "pub", a restaurant with a bar of a bar, the food is served rather, you can like what you leave a tip at a restaurant.

Tipping taxi drivers

About 10 percent of the total cost is for licensees, taximeters together. Rural taxis and minicabs a fixed fee generally agreed in advance and many people do not add an additional tip.

Failover maids and assistants Hotels

Only personnel from the top of the hotel, if you do something special for you. Waitresses not inclined generally. You can help a one button or two pounds with your bags or a porter, suggest to take a taxi for you. Valet parking is scarce and, when available, is usually not a burden to them, so tipping is not necessary. Some hotels have begun adding optional service charge to the bills. This is in hotels with spas and gyms, where they expected to staff, additional services you perform frequently, and the employee is to be distributed. If you prefer to reduce the amount that you give them to control certain people you have charges removed from the bill.

Coach tips and guides drivers

At the end of the guided tours or guided bus tours, often results say: "My name is Jane Smith and I hope you enjoyed your visit." This is not a subtle to a peak. If you have a good time had, and you are well looked after and all entertain the guide device will give you a little something. Consider, £ 02.05 for a single traveler, 1- £ 2 per person for a family.

While traveling by bus or by bus, the driver often a container near the exit, where you leave the tip. If you have been to visit a few days, tip the driver of the car a lot, based on the number of days on the road (1-2 € per day per person) at the end of the trip.

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