What’s the tipping principle in Vietnam?1) You expect good service for the price, and tip only for exceptionally great service, or2) You tip for normal, good service, and only not tip for bad service?Also, what’s the usual percentage?(Please only genuine Vietnam-specific knowledge, not your home customs that you followed also on your vacation.)
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Yes, I believe in tipping everywhere, not just in Vietnam and from $5 at the very least. I’ve seen people tip staff 5,000 or even just 10–20,000. Honestly, 5,000 doesn’t even buy a one-litre bottle of water! You get what you give.
You don’t have to tip but if it was good service. Make someones day. Restaurants you don’t need percentage but 50K is thoughtful and apprciative.
If paying with cash, I usually just round every thing up to save carrying small change and notes.
Not a common practice. When I have tipped, for my Grab driver for example, they have been surprised and very grateful. It doesn’t have to be very much, and it’s not expected. In my experience they certainly not get abusive, like in many countries, if you don’t!
Yes, when you find the service good and you’re happy, you should tip, but it’s not mandatory.
50k-100k VND is my average tip for any kind of services, but mostly 100k. As an Indonesian, I tend to give a bit more tip here since it feels more affordable for me than where I came from, Bali.
I don’t tip any where. I was in a cafe/ pub place yesterday in Vietnam, they didn’t have change for a large bank note so I went and did some shopping and returned to pay the bill. The owner, Canadian, implied I should have left the balance as a tip. WTF
It is not a tipping culture here
Every time you tip, you are creating a culture of expectation for tip from foreigners.
Here come the tight wad Europeans amd Australians not wanting to give the poor peoples anything extra despite the fact that they’re in a poor country, taking advantage of the cheap prices God forbid you give them a little extra and give them any reason to talk bad about “ American tip culture “