I read the title of this thread like "tipping cows"
My experience has been the working class tip and the upperclass do not. Does this coincide with your pattern? Were the tippers more one time BnB goers than the rest? Without asking why the others DID NOT TIP I would focus on why these did.
Did you spend more time or were more flexible with them? More accomodating for early check in or later check out or anything?
Care to share the demographic of the tippers with us? Mine are YOUNGER vs older here. Not meant to start a debate on the classes...but you know this forum and the cat herding.
I have one room that is notorious for the keys being taken home, no rhyme or reason, it is almost always that room. I DO change out the key fob as I have to when I have no key!.
Not sure of the color of their collars but will guess at it. One person definitely not blue collar, one couple definitely mgmt (and world-traveling mgmt at that), one family definitely religious collar. (Meant as a joke, but mostly true.) I would say all of the guests had money. Not huge sums of it, but not working an assembly line, either. Quite frankly I had more money working an assembly line than I do now, but that's a whole 'nother story, as they say.
So, 2 of the bookings were walk-ins (rare tippers) and 1 was a short time booking (maybe 2-3 days ago).
How we may have connected...quite a substantial amount of help given to one guest and we were recommended in a travel guide he was using. The religious family we offered a small discount to. The second family had a child who bonded with the better half. Wanted to help with the dishes, etc. Wanted to go outside and learn the names of all the flowers in the garden. Did not want to leave.
We have done as much for all of the other rooms this week. Mapping out routes for things to do, offering discounts, offering early breakfast so they could make appts, etc.
Tippers all from different states. Some tippers saw the housekeeper, others did not.
Still not sure what the connection was other than the room.
