whats a good tip to givwt wheelchair assistance at the airport
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I tip $five unless there is also significant assurance with bags.
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Usually $5, or �5 if we are going through LHR. DH needs the wheelchair for the longer distances in airports, otherwise he doesn't use one, just uses a cane.
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$v. Once I tipped �10 at Heathrow because information technology was all I had. The person said �we aren�t allowed to take tips� and stuck information technology in her pocket. Probably 10 years ago and then the rules may take changed.
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Annihilation from $3 to $10 depending on the distance, whether or non there was wait past the bathroom, how many elevators involved, whether or non checked luggage should exist retrieved...
When I tried to tip in Canada, they looked at me similar I brutal off the moon. It's not customary to tip at that place.
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So do yous tip the porter in a hospital who pushes you on a trolley?
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@chartly yes given one-half a chance I'thousand sure the tipping crazies would do so...
I traveled with my Mum in one case who was in a wheelchair, well we were in the plane for the bulk of the fourth dimension..merely y'all get my drift..from Sydney to Paris and it never occurred to me to tip... But that'due south Aussies for you!
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We tipped $10 a few times at EWR. They were extremely helpful. From the entrance to the boarding gate and everything in betwixt. Nosotros were treated like we were in outset class. Each time we were ushered through (cutting alee of) all the lines and were basically fast tracked to the last and on our render, out to our automobile. Fifty-fifty at immigration, information technology took less than a couple of minutes. No waiting in line, pushed to the booth, just a wave of the passport and kept going.
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In Munich, our wheelchair assistant waited with us at the car rental counter, took us to the parking garage and went and brought our car to usa. So x Euro didn't seem out of place to us. Maybe it was, but she went to a higher place and across our expectations.
Mar 14th, 2019, 05:21 AM
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"and information technology never occurred to me to tip.."
Same here.
But when it actually happened, I felt like I should.
Whew! I feel better. I tipped $five for most of the flights. I simply had a ten for one flight but the guy was great and got me from ane terminate of Concourse A in Atlanta to the other end of B in just a few minutes - and information technology was a tight connection! It was worth $ten to make the flight!
Cheers!
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They make very fiddling and depend on those tips in American Airports. Jo, that was worth information technology in Atlanta!! Call up Max Cleland? He used two wheelchairs in the airport. He would put all his stuff in one chair and push information technology while wheeling himself. He would fly in and out of Daytona often.
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Thankfully I have not need the services as of nevertheless but my Dad has tipped $10.
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Sorry, just needing reassurance that a tip based on personal experience is the correct amount is unfortunate IMO.
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Originally Posted by Dukey1 
Sorry, but needing reassurance that a tip based on personal experience is the correct amount is unfortunate IMO.
Why is that unfortunate? Seems perfectly normal to me.
Mar 14th, 2019, 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Macross
Remember Max Cleland? He used two wheelchairs in the airport. He would put all his stuff in one chair and push it while wheeling himself. He would fly in and out of Daytona often.
I do! That sounds like him!
I dearest that airport!
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I used to do $5 but now do $x, particularly since it invariably winds upwardly that the operator goes higher up and beyond, getting u.s.a. through checkpoints with no waits, offer balance room stops, and helping with luggage if I'thousand on my own. Information technology depends on how much time is involved. We've likewise been in airports where connections involve a railroad train ride and take most an hour of the person'south time. I give more on these occasions. In the The states these people rely on tips absent a living wage.
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I've only had wheelchair help once, and it was nothing I had arranged in accelerate. I showed up (walking with a cane, pre-articulatio genus-surgery) and they just chosen 1 over and put me in information technology. I didn't remember to tip at all and have always felt bad almost that. The unabridged state of affairs caught me by surprise.
I'd give a $ten for each 'ride' adjacent time, if it ever happens that I need the assistance in the future.
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I had to use chairs several trips when i had my knee injury . . . and for me it totally depended on he airport and if it was an international flight or not. In dinky little SMF I tipped $4 (would have bee $five but that was all I had). In Miami returning from Peru it was a MESS and the poor attendant had to wheel all over hell and gone. From the gate, a restroom stop, a long fashion to Global Entry . . . but the kiosks were all downward so she then wheeled me to another area nearly 10 minutes abroad where they did special expedited passport control, so through customs and finally to the Admiral's Order. I gave her $20 -- and she earned information technology.
In LAX and DFW I gave $ten each - they were more straightforward than at Miami but did have to change terminals at both.
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Information technology was a crazy route at JFK to become to the international gates from our transfer. Besides saving Dad from and so much walking, I never would take found the lift. She was with u.s. close to 30 min. We gave her $20.
This post is reminding me of Seinfeld and Elaine's luggage.
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