I don't understand why people tip the housekeeping staff other than in exceptional circumstances. They are not being paid below-legal-minimum wages with the expectation that customers will make up the difference (as is the case with restaurant servers in the US), so there's no need to tip for ordinary service. And what constitutes extraordinary service? Cleaning up after you've made a wreck of the room? Yeah, if you've pulled all the drawers out of the cabinets and soaked half the pillows in the bathtub[1] I totally understand leaving some money as a form of apology for the extra work you've created. But assuming you haven't made an unholy mess, why tip?


[1] I have a relative whose daughter does things like this when she is "expressing" her "creativity".