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Tipping Hotels And Restaurants: Tips on Tipping Hotels and restaurants add 15 per cent to their bills for service (10 per cent for stays of 5 days or more). If in doubt, ask "Inclusief?" Guests often leave a little extra on the Table at restaurants but it is not necessary to distribute extras at hotels except to the hall porter, if he has been useful, and of course to the boy who carries your bags in and out. Holland is a very self-respecting nation and you will hardly ever get dark looks from servants, whatever you do, so this may lead you to be on the generous side in doubtful cases. However, actual over-tipping by Americans is not a recommendable practice.
Tips on Tipping Many hotels, and also restaurants, add a service charge to your bill. It is 15 per cent in hotels, and there is a 5 per cent government tax as well. In restaurants it varies from 10 to 15 per cent according to category. Frequently guests sweeten the payment by a little extra to the chambermaid and the waiter; and don't forget that important functionary, the head porter, especially if he has been your friend and counselor, or has taken care of your mail. If service charge is not added, distribute the equivalent percentage.
Taxis in Sweden display the word Ledig if they are free. The word means Disengaged, but it is also used to characterize a girl who is Not Betrothed!
Tips on Tipping The old complex system of graduated service charges, once a bane of Swedish tourism, has gone down the drain and a simple 15 per cent system now prevails in almost all hotels. Restaurants usually add 10 per cent. If no such charge is added—the word for service is Betjaning—you will do your own equivalent tipping.
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