The other option is a gift to the crew welfare fund, if the service is
outstanding, which it usually is.
We have done that. They do not expect tip envelopes.
Diane
"Blackbird71" wrote in message
news:128fn3u8ig61b1b@corp.supernews.com...
| On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:41:46 -0400, Cathy Kearns wrote
| (in article ):
|
| > We are heading out on the Regent Navigator next month to the Baltic. In
the
| > past we have cruised on HAL and Disney, and I understand tipping on
those
| > lines. Regent seems to say no tipping (versus the old HAL tipping not
| > required, which really means just we won't give you guidelines, so bring
| > them from home from this newsgroup:-). Do they really mean it when they
say
| > no tipping?
| >
| >
|
| Yip no tipping...
|
| But on my Amazon cruise, I found out for sure that my suite stewardess was
| going ashore (she did on most ports) and gave her and her asst a thank you
| card with $40 in it and told them lunch was on me. :)
|
| These are the only crew that you will be coming in contact with every day.
| The open seating in the restaurant means most nights you will have
different
| servers. I love open seating.....
|
| Join a group at dinner and meet a lot of wonderful people.
|
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