<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JS:
Do you "tip" a dealer $20 to give you a better card? That's not tipping, it's cheating.
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You paid for a regular room, not a suite. You are stealing the upgrade from regular to suite.
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Yes, I do tip dealers $20, and cab drivers and waitresses. And I find that I get better service when I do so. Dealers can help you out in lots of ways.
You still have not provided a satisfactory answer to the overbooking issue. The hotels are always overbooked, so the upgrade might as well go to you, rather than joe-shmoe from idaho who just happens to show up at midnight after all the regular rooms are gone.
Do you think the hotel really gives a ****? Nobody who has booked a $200 room is going to pay $400 to upgrade to a suite on day of arrival, just as nobody is going to pay an airline $2000 to upgrade their $200 coach seat on a transcon. And there are no upgrade stickers at casinos. The hotel is happy to have you tip employees because they don't pay them jack in wages.