Originally Posted by Perche

What if you don't get a bill until the end? I'm staying at a hotel for a month. At the end of the first week the front desk asked me to pay about $1300 USD, which was for the room and for what I had eaten in the restaurant, bar, mini-bar, etc. I just paid that. I did not include a tip. I don't know how giving a tip to the front desk would get it distributed to waiters, the bar tender, etc. At the end of my next three weeks I'll get the rest of the bill, probably about $4,000. In the hotel I have just charging it to the room. There is no line item for tips on the bills that they bring. I haven't been leaving money each time. Is this bad?
Should I leave money each time? At the end, do I seek each person out who served me, and give them a tip? What if they are not working that day? Do I give a 5% tip to the front desk and tell them to distribute it to all the waitstaff, and assume that it will actually be done? What's different about my question is that I'm staying in one place, for one month, and am incurring virtually no outside expenses, except for the occasional yuk-yuk or taxi, and I can deal with that. I just don't know what to do at the end of a one month hotel stay.