Jon

You should tip at least one dollar per drink each time you are served regardless of how well you are doing at the slots or what type of drink you have ordered. The server has to walk just as far to deliver a bottle of water as a "top shelf" drink. The tip is for the service, not a payment for the drink.

Tip less than that and you will be lucky to get a second drink.

xxx

Jon:
Since you are a local: Do you know if it is true that the cocktail waitresses actualy have to pay the bar for those "free" drinks. On a TV show they said that at Paris they had to pay 60 cents per drink to the bartender.(out of their wages). Did I hear this right?

Faina

Hmmm.... nice discussion here when I'm going to Vegas in a month... if I tip I get a drink (a FREE drink, mind you!) and how do you calculate 15-20% for that drink? if I don't tip I don't get my drink? What happened to "duties and responsibilities" of position description of people who HAVE to offer drinks to gamblers? Is this the reason the girls with trays never stop at the nickel slots and always at $1 slots? Any casino managers reading this site? How far are we from "no tips - no room" in hotels?

Gerry

Fiana:
The casino is under no obligation to give you free drinks or free anything else. They reserve their best perks for their "best" customers.
As for the coctail waitresses. They are paid a very low wage. They do not make the rules. They are just trying to make a living(modest).
Of course, in a perfect world....

x

Tip with your heart. If the person is nice, or you like them for one reason or another, give them more than you normally would. If they're a schmuck, give them less. A buck per ROUND of drinks (2 to 4 people) would be a good starting point. After all, if you overtip your drinks are no longer free, are they.

Gerry

Maybe we all should get over the idea that we are getting "free" drinks. There is no "free lunch". It's just a way to keep you at the table or machine so they can make more money off of you. They are not "free". The coctail waitress does not make her salary off of the machines but off of your tips. If you don't tip her the house gets its pay off of your gambling but the waitress gets nothing. Such are the facts of life in Las Vegas.

Keep

Fiana:
Should you also not tip the valet who parks your car or the bellhop who takes you bags to the room or...? Any tip would be 15-20% of what? (FREE services mind you!) And of course their are "duties and responsibilities" of service.

Faina

Keep,
or my car gets broken? or out of gas?
And the contents of my bags end up on the hallway floor?

xxx

I wouldn't tip for a drink that the server spilled on me or for any of those other things whether it was free or I paid for it.

Vic

The 'rules' are pretty simple, guys.
No, you are NOT obligated to tip.
And the cocktail waitresses are not obligated to make any effort to see that you are served with any regularity either (until you complain to pit boss or management...which ONLY carries any weight if you're spending some solid $$ gambling. And if you're spending the $$, are you really so cheap that you're going to stiff the waitress anyway?).

If you want to be served drinks on a regular basis, you must tip.
Standard is a dollar a drink.
The tip has nothing to do with 15-20% of anything. It's just a simple, round number that's customary.