Tipping taxi drivers in Spain and Italy
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Yes, but there is no need to tip 20% as you would in the US. We usually tip more like 10% - although I know locals may give less. Also if the driver has hauled around 4 giant suitcases for you take that into consideration.
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Partly perhaps because of a national shortage of coins in Italy, there don't seem to be all that many occasions when taxi fares aren't counted in whole Euro?
Unless the circumstances are unusual, we add just one or two Euro to the agreed or metered fare... which (in my mind at least) averages out to giving the drivers the price of a quick coffee!
No tip is the reward I save for absolute stinkers...
Peter
Unless the circumstances are unusual, we add just one or two Euro to the agreed or metered fare... which (in my mind at least) averages out to giving the drivers the price of a quick coffee!
No tip is the reward I save for absolute stinkers...
Peter
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Well, I´m the opposite of Robert. I don´t usually tip the taxi drivers, and if I tip is inside Madrid. There have been lately a few nice taxi drivers who have stopped the meters and behave perfectly polite who have deserved the "rounding up to the next euro" tip.
I never tip when coming and going to the airport (and I tend if possible to get the metro or the bus there), because being spanish is the one ride where I am more likely to be submitted to various political rantings and diatribes ... and it is the last thing I want to hear near midnight.
Bye, Cova
I never tip when coming and going to the airport (and I tend if possible to get the metro or the bus there), because being spanish is the one ride where I am more likely to be submitted to various political rantings and diatribes ... and it is the last thing I want to hear near midnight.
Bye, Cova
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Just bak from Rome and did not tip cab drivers, in fact one made sure tongive us the .20€ difference on one trip. Occasionally, the drivers would not have enough change, so they would end up with a .10-.30€ tip but not because we were tipping, it just wasn't worth worrying about.
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Americans usually tip - we tip about 10% rather than the 20% we would here. Locals my tip less - or may not.
IMHO when people are hauling luggage around for me I tip whether locals like it or not.
IMHO when people are hauling luggage around for me I tip whether locals like it or not.