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[samg0627]

I saw a really cool idea for decorating envelopes to put mousekeeping tips in. I grabbed a couple of the envelopes from the bank the last time we were there and they are all decorated and ready to go but how much should I put in them?

[CinderAbby]

I tip $4. There's 3 of us but we get 2 rooms so I just throw an extra dollar in the envelope for Abby's room (which never gets dirty as she only sleeps in there - all the snacking, tv watching etc gets done in our room).

[stobaugh6]

We get 2 rooms and I put $5 in two envelopes, one for each room. I have 6 kiddos though, so we can make a pretty decent mess...although the OCD comes out in my alot of the time and I will clean up before housekeeping ever gets there!

[Roxie2006]

There are 4 of us and we put $5 in our envelope. We are 4 adults that are "everything has a place" kind of family.

[krisk11]

I only tip 2 dollars but there is only 2 of us and we are not at all messy. If something spilled or something I would definately add a little more. I ususally straighten up before mousekeeping shows up. Last trip most of the time they came we were back in the room napping so I just got clean towels and gave her the dirty ones and she never came in.

[dizneymommy]

These amounts you are listing, are these each day? Or at the end of your trip?

[Lumieregirl]

I tip daily, as you may not have the same Mousekeeper every day / on the last day of your trip.

[Wolfy6688]

We also tip daily, because the Mousekeepers change frequently during our trip.

We tip $5 a day. There's usually just 2 of us. This year there'll be 3 of us, but since it'll still be one room, it'll still probably be $5 a day.

[Colexis Mom]

We tip $5 for the 4 of us.

[pickle]

I have read before to average a tip based on $1 per person. We will be in a 2 BR with 8 people, do you think $8 per day is too much? We will keep things tidy.

[Teresa]

No, $8 a day isn't too much - not for 2 rooms. We usually tip $1 per person, per room. Earlier this month, we were 6 people in a 3 room suite (not 3 bdrm, just 2 bdrms and a sitting room) - so we tipped $18 a day. The reason is that 3 of those six were teenage girls, and THEY make a huge mess!!

[Angileyze1]

We do 1 dollar for each person in the room plus 1 dollar. So last year we were 4 so we tipped 5 every day. This yr its just me and DD so we will tip 3 a day.

[samg0627]

Ok great thanks guys so I guess for 2 kids/2adults $4 or $5 dollars should be suffucient we are staying at ASMU just a regular room with 2 double beds that we will keep tidy but I hear they do neat things around the room with the kids stuff! Cant wait I will def post pics of the room and the envelopes in my TR!

[ShellingConnie]

I tip daily and when there's all 4 of us, I do 5.00 unless we've been really messy and then I'll toss in an extra dollar.

When it's only 2 of us (mom and child trips. WooHoo!), I tip 3.00.

When it's just me solo, I tip 2.00. I'm never in the room and it's not messy but I'd feel silly only leaving 1.00.

[ShellingConnie]

Originally Posted by samg0627

Ok great thanks guys so I guess for 2 kids/2adults $4 or $5 dollars should be suffucient we are staying at ASMU just a regular room with 2 double beds that we will keep tidy but I hear they do neat things around the room with the kids stuff! Cant wait I will def post pics of the room and the envelopes in my TR!

Sometimes they do fun stuff and sometimes they don't. If you don't tell your kids, it'll be a fun surprise if they do.

We've gotten a couple of towel animals, had the kids toys stacked on top of pillows with one of them holding the remote once and had a hammock made that stretched across 2 beds and had DD's animals and doll put in it once.

Please don't be disappointed if nothing happens. After all our trips, we've only had fun stuff done 4 times.