Originally Posted by
techauthor
I thought of that, but cash left on the desk stays on the desk until checkout. I've even folded it into the cards I sometimes see from the housekeeper introducing herself or from the hotel saying maid service is twice a week. It usually remains untouched.
They won't take cash of desks etc (or shouldn't!) as people dump their pockets out there without thinking. If I am tipping, I place the money on the pillow, or in the ashtray (used to be ashtray all the time, but now hotels rarely have them (I am not a smoker), the bed seems the most logical place. Another way to do it is to use the hotel's envelopes from the desk drawer and write 'Housekeeping' on it.