Do you tip?

[Sepandee]

My first post on this forum:

Does anyone tip their instructor/the person accompanying you? I started thinking about this when I finished my AOP. Was I supposed to tip my instructor? What if, like now, I just go to dive through a diving company. Should I tip the boat driver/diver accompanying me?


Thanks.

 

[jimdiverman]

My first post on this forum:

Does anyone tip their instructor/the person accompanying you? I started thinking about this when I finished my AOP. Was I supposed to tip my instructor? What if, like now, I just go to dive through a diving company. Should I tip the boat driver/diver accompanying me?


Thanks.

I always tip on a commercial dive charter. But I have never heard or been asked to tip an instructor. It may depend on the situation in which you are doing your cert though.

 

[Sepandee]

It may depend on the situation in which you are doing your cert though.

Like what?
It just feels weird. I'm 24, my instructor was in his 50s. I'm a student, he dives for fun for 4 months of the year.
The reason I ask is whether it's considered rude not to tip. For example, does it fall under the haircut/restaurant and bar server category where it's the norm to tip, or is it like Starbucks, where you have the tipping jar but no one really expects you to tip?

 

[Scubagolf]

There has been a lot of discussion about tipping on this board. Here's a link to one, and a simple search will find more.

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=185939&highlight=tipping

 

[Scubagolf]

Or here on tipping instructors....

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=159558&highlight=tipping+instructors

 

[reefugee]

I did't tip my instructors or the dive master during my OW course. However, I treated them to a nice dinner. When my daughter was going through her OW, she had the same instructor as I did. He tried out my spring strap and loved it. So we treated him to dinner AND bought him a pair of spring strap.

 

[Warren_L]

FWIW. I've never been tipped for teaching an OW class and have never expected it. But I do tip DMs, especially when on a weeklong trip somewhere as a good DM can really be worth his or her weight in gold....

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I can ease your mind. PM me for my addy and for a modest tip of 200 bucks I'll give you a complete course on tipping etiquette.

 

[DennisS]

I can ease your mind. PM me for my addy and for a modest tip of 200 bucks I'll give you a complete course on tipping etiquette.

So that's $240 with tip and tax

 

[Garrobo]

I didn't tip my original instructor but I gave him a set of fins which were causing me a lot of leg cramps. He let me use a pair of his Force Fins which took the cramps out. Next stop was Ebay, looking for a pair of FF's. Problem solved.