For luggage, I try to carry my own... the
bell staff can use the time to handle the
families with 425 bags to bring up.

If I am jetlagged, most of the bell people
know it and I just leave the bags with them
and bring them up (the only thing I always
keep with me is my briefcase... Can't lose
my paperwork.)

I leave a few dollars for the housekeeping
staff, and to make it easy on them, I try to
do stuff like hang the towels on the shower
rack, put the sheets, blankets on the bed
wipe around the sink... They work hard enough
without picking up after a messy man.

Restaurants: it depends on the service,
exceptional service gets 20 percent (one
waitress in Toronto asked if I made a mistake
I told her to take herself out for something
beautiful like her.) If the service is poor
I have left as much as 7 cents tip. This could be wrong, but as I said elsewhere it
doesn't take much to be a little cordial.
CATMAN