Tipping Culture in Bhutan !

The Service Industry anticipates tips, be it at a mechanic's shop or a car wash, a high end restaurant, or a massage parlour. Local Bhutanese usually tip at automobile shops and restaurants, sometimes before a service, expecting better service and for the next time.

Tips are highly expected from Tourists, the ones who brought along the tipping culture and the ones who've come to spend and have enough to spend on leisure. While some blogs may explain how to tip, we believe there is no defined rule of tipping; tip as you wish, as handsomely as you can, and at least at par with the service you receive.

Your guide and driver are one of the most crucial people in making your trip a fulfilling one, while in general the guides and drivers are expected to be with the guest or client for about 8-10 hours, in almost every case or trip, they'd be willing to assist you 24 hours a day if needed without any extra charges, that's simply Bhutanese courtesy. They deserve the most, at least tip 100 USD each, more or less depending upon the type of treatment you receive and the duration of your stay. For a stay of a week or more, one can be more courteous, your SDF fee itself is 100 USD a day, one can spare more on tipping. Guides in Bhutan, on average, gets paid about Nu 2500/- or 30 USD a day from which they manage the food and lodging along the trip, while sometimes your hotels may offer them the food and bed this may not always be the case. Yes, this is one of the few jobs in the country that is heavily dependent on how much a guest tips them. If you tip them in foreign currency, there's an incentive for them to save for gloomy days, the choice is yours,; though.

Service providers along your journey deserve a bit, your server, your raft guide, your butler if you can afford one, and the housekeeping at the hotel you wouldn't see all deserve some gratitude when you are on a holiday. While you've paid your reasonable price for he trip, some of the service provider gets paid as little as 5 dollars a day for a 8-hour work day; in a country where dairy, poultry, general foods and gas are as expensive as in America or other developed countries, it is totally upon you as the one on holiday, to tip or not. Nu.100- nu.1000/- 2 - 10 USD is a really good tip for them as well. Brighten yourself up and feel the pleasure of having made someone's day.