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Old Aug 14, 2013 | 12:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Ancien Maestro
Just recently did a Kauai Na Pali coast Catamaran tour on Captain Andy's Southern Star. I was able to post the tip on credit card at the desk. In this case what would be the appropriate amount to tip on a $550 tour? I figure the food portion is worth $120. Tipping in tours are so difficult to figure out. That's an $85 tip if I go by the 17% rule.
A multiday catamaran tour sounds like a cruise, and cruise tips are their own crooked world entirely.

I'm not a big package-tour guy, but my father-in law used them a ton, and his MO was to slip their guide a $20 note (or the local equivalent) at the end of a multi-day tour. Seems about right.
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