VIP tour tipping

[CaptainRogers2021]

My family of 4 was gifted 4 days of VIP tours in December. What is the tipping recommendation for each day? And how does that work? Cash? Venmo? And are we supposed to buy the guide food? This is so out of my league I’m overwhelmed!

TIA

 

[scrappinginontario]

This thread had a lot of input in the past.

 

[dizneedoll]

Not sure on tipping but I do know Disney pays for the guides food.
And that's probably the most awesome gift ever!

 

[CaptainRogers2021]

This thread had a lot of input in the past.

Huge help thank you so much

 

[freshmanjs]

We tip $600-800 per day for our family of 5. We use venmo. Our guides have always taken care of their own lunch and, in fact, they give you some snacks / drinks along the way as part of the package.

 

[RRZJ]

The guides used to eat with families pre-COVID and Disney paid for their meals. Since COVID, guides don’t eat with families (at least not since last we were there a few months ago) and get their own Disney bought food when you eat. In terms of tips, it’s all over the board. The best advice we’ve seen is roughly the cost of one tour hour per day as a tip. Last time we were there, our guide did have venmo which made tipping exponentially easier because carrying around an envelope with a large stack of $20s (thanks, ATMS!) was a nightmare! And whoever gave you that gift is one heck of an amazing gift giver! Enjoy!

 

[holden]

We tipped $600 for each of our tours - cash. At $2400 in tips, that’s still a bargain! What a nice gift!

 

[stinkpickle]

Gifted 4 days of VIP tours?!?!?! WOW! Your tips will be almost the cost of one VIP tour. LOL!

 

[GoingSince1990]

We tip $200-$300 per day, cash in an envelope. We gifted our daughter and her boyfriend a 2-day tour; they gave $200 at the end of both days and the guide (same guide on both days) seemed very happy. Tips are genuinely not expected or required, and Disney actually makes it quite hard to do; there is no option to add it to the credit card payment and maybe I’m a bit old-school but I would feel awkward asking for the guide’s Venmo, so we’ve always done cash. For a 4-day tour if it is the same guide every day I would suggest $200 at the end of each day, and consider adding an extra $200 at the end of the last day to round it up to a total of $1000 if you have bonded with your guide and had an amazing time.

 

[PalmettoPath]

We only do one day VIP Tours when we do them. Family of three. We tip $550 cash usually, assuming the guide was good. We have had a very poor guide in the past and the tip was less accordingly.

 

[MEC004]

Does this include the Wild Trek Safari? I didn’t think about tipping

 

[freshmanjs]

Gifted 4 days of VIP tours?!?!?! WOW! Your tips will be almost the cost of one VIP tour. LOL!

That is some interesting math.

 

[2vets]

What an awesome gift!!! We have a VIP tour in 2 weeks (HOORAY!!), and I’m planning on $5-600. I’ll bring cash if I remember, but we used Venmo before.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Does this include the Wild Trek Safari? I didn’t think about tipping

No. They’re discussing private VIP tours here, not group activity “VIP tours” like the safari. The guides on the private tours have a lot more interaction and time working with just the guests than on the group tours.

 

[2vets]

What an awesome gift!!! We have a VIP tour in 2 weeks (HOORAY!!), and I’m planning on $5-600. I’ll bring cash if I remember, but we used Venmo before.

As an aside, they just told me that we can only do Guardians once on our tour. Grumble grumble…

 

[jo-jo]

My family of 4 was gifted 4 days of VIP tours in December. What is the tipping recommendation for each day? And how does that work? Cash? Venmo? And are we supposed to buy the guide food? This is so out of my league I’m overwhelmed!

TIA

Can I join your family? I'm a wonderful grandma, I'll have my grandkids all write resumes if needed.


Please write a TR when you return. I've never heard of anyone doing a VIP tour for several days. Are you staying longer than four days? Knowing me, I'd want to do Tour day, rest day, Tour day, rest day, etc

Have a wonderful trip.

 

[MinnieFan4ever]

Just did a VIP tour last week and it was incredible!!! There were just three of us. Our guide did eat lunch with us and grabbed a snack later midday. We tipped her 1 hours rate cash.

 

[SkyGuy]

As an aside, they just told me that we can only do Guardians once on our tour. Grumble grumble…

That was also the rule with Rise when it was VQ.

 

[stinkpickle]

That was also the rule with Rise when it was VQ.

Yep, we have one planned for Saturday, and Rise is still a one ride deal.

 

[GoingSince1990]

Yep, we have one planned for Saturday, and Rise is still a one ride deal.

For quite a long time after ROTR opened, it was not available to VIP tours at all.