Tipping in Foreign Countries Story
A colleague and I were traveling to Taipei for the first time and had arranged a hotel car to take us from the airport to the hotel. As we traveled through the darkness the driver turned off the highway squeezing through two cement barriers and on to some not so great streets. We thought we had been had and would end up being a story in the paper. We did arrive at our hotel safely and we quickly gave the driver some US money. We were relieved to be checking into the hotel. During the check in process my colleague noticed a man smiling at us with a camera around his neck. My friend said “That looks just like my camera” – it was. It was our car driver with my friend’s expensive camera which was left on the back seat of the car in our haste to get out. We learned that tips can pay unknown dividends! As my post on tipping in foreign countries says – when it doubt - tip!
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