Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-12 | Page 7 | A Non-Tip Hotel in London

A NON-TIP HOTEL IN LONDON. A dispatch to a New York paper says the experiment of a non-tip hotel in the Strand In London has proved a success Since the establishment was opened a year ago there has not been a vacant bed room, a record which could not be equaled by any other London hotel. Fverv day the management has bad to refuse visitors. visit-ors. Altogether nearly a quarter of a million guests have s-tayed at the hotel in the 241 days H lias been pen. The success of the hotel, the directors direc-tors believe, is mainly due to the non-tip non-tip rule. Guests are forbidden to offer of-fer any servant of the hotel a gratu ity, and servants found accepting them are Instantly dismissed Poo-pie Poo-pie know exactly what it Is going to cost them before they set foot In the hotel, and when they pay their bill there Is no need for them to put their bands Into their pockets to tip anybody. Although the rule against lipping is rlgl-lly enforced by the management, manage-ment, there have been visitors who have insisted ion offering gratuities. gratui-ties. In order to protect servants from temptation the management has had to request these visitors to abide by the regulations or to seek accommodation accommo-dation elsewhere.