Folsomdoc

** If you include the tips as part of the salary and part of the cost of the trip the incentive for an over the top performance and experience has been removed** I respectfully disagree. There are ma… (View Post)

Here's my rhetorical answer - I'm simply trying to change Tauck's inconvenient tipping mechanism, not the world. This!! (View Post)

Carrying and caring for cash is really no more difficult than carrying and caring for a passport. Could not disagree more . A passport is.a single relatively small extremely valuable document. When I… (View Post)

How about the next logical step-eliminate tips altogether? Pay your guides and drivers an equitable salary and be done with it. Rick Steves does that and he has excellent people working for him with … (View Post)

Sounds like a great trip! Thanks for a terrific review. We’ve been to Paris a dozen times and we are returning next year. It never gets old. We are booked for the Paris, Bordeaux, Dordogne tour. (View Post)