My husband travels for work about once every other month for a week at a time. He returned home from Iceland a week ago. When he travels I treat myself to something at the spa for surviving on my own with a two year old and working. Usually it's for whatever I happen to have a coupon for and that's how I decide. This past trip I had a coupon for a free 1/2 hour facial and it could be upgraded to an hour for $25. So, of course, I upgraded. This service normally runs $65 for the hour treatment.
I am so looking forward to relaxing for the hour and possibly falling asleep. As the facial begins I relax. Then my mind begins to wonder and lands on the thought of "what do I tip?" I have to admit, I alway stress about the tip at a salon. So my stress this time is, do I pay on the discount price of $25 or on the usual price of $65. Throughout the one hour facial, which I still enjoyed very much, I am debating in my head about what to tip. I also wonder do you always tip 20% or somewhere around 15%?? I usually go with 20% or somewhere close unless of course the experience sucked.
This time I settled on tipping around $10. I still could not decide if I tip on the $65 because that would be almost as much as I paid to get the facial which make the coupon pointless.
Am I the only one who lives like this, freaking out about a tip during a relaxing spa day?? What is the proper tip? I look forward to de-stressing again when Nate travels 3 times in April!
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I always tip 20% of the price of the service prior to discount. I worked for tips during college (as a waitress) and always felt stiffed if they tipped off coupons. It made me irritated at the restaurant for even offering coupons.
ReplyDeleteHaving this standard takes the guess work out of the tipping experience and allows for increased enjoyment.
Glad you get a chance to relax when Nate is away!
That's a tough one! I guess I would tip based on satisfaction. If it was worth the full amount tip based on that. If it was not, then tip based on discount price.
ReplyDeleteYou should plan ahead what you are going to do so you don't waste the whole time worrying and giving yourself diarrhea.
At least your obsession seems to end when you leave the spa. I often find myself redoing the math in my head on the drive home, fearful that I undertipped in the pressure of on-the-spot mathematics :) Enjoying your posts, Kristin. Keep it up!
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