Steve M

I had an interesting experience recently. How persistent should one be in offering a gratuity when you want to give one and it is politely refused by the recipient? Us travelers don't normally have that problem :-) but it did come up recently for me. I offered a second time, and when it was declined again, I gave up. And I really wanted to give a tip: I had been given a ride to another hotel by the courtesy van driver of a hotel where I wasn't even staying. I thought he really deserved a tip. But it is hard to judge sometimes when someone is just being polite in declining a tip and when they really don't want one (or can't accept one due to policy and are conscientious enough to follow the rules).