How much to tip in Peru?

Sunday, May 28, 2017

How much to tip in Peru?

Whenever you travel, tipping is optional when you take a pre-paid tour, on the other hand if you take a free walking tour service is mandatory unless the service is very Poor. Our free tour service is good to great, since our tour leaders will do their best so that you will feel like tipping, as simple as that, don't take our word for it, you can check our reviews on TripAdvisor: Free Tour Cusco and Free Tour Lima.

For more information check free walking tours in Cusco, best walking tours Lima and Arequipa free tours.

If you go to NYC or Berlin, the philosophy for free tours is "tip what you like” or "pay what you want", this is a great philosophy and really works because New Yorkers are Big Tippers, same goes to the German Tourists, they all tip nicely and decently.

On the other hand; keeping this kind of philosophy doesn´t work in South America since there are many tourists traveling as backpackers which is good but most of them don't have a tipping culture, some of them are asking for a set of menu of 1 SOLES (0.30cents dollars)—when not even locals do that.

How much should you tip according to the city where you are — source: TripAdvisor

Free tour Tip in NYC is 20 USD per person

Free Tour Tip in Barcelona is 15 to 20 euros per person

Free Tour Tip in Budapest is 15 euros per person

Free Tour in Santiago Chile is 12 UDS per person
Free Tour in Lima, Arequipa and Cusco is from 7 to 10 UDS per person

In Italy, Tour guides say: "Coins are for the water fountain, paper bill for the tour guides"

All tipping prices above can be proved correct by checking tripadvisor comments and we are people who have attended walking tours across the globe since we were also travelers.

Note:

If you take a city tour in Cusco, tour agencies will tell you, “It is just 20 soles” (7 dollars) that is not true, because they don’t tell that you will need entrance tickets. So this is how is goes: Tour Guide & Transportation is 20 soles, Entrance Tickets is 130 soles (Boleto Turistico), entrance to the Cathedral is 25 soles and Qoricancha is 15 soles, all together is: 190 soles(65 USD), Now you compare 65USD to 7USD, so there is no need to say. Keep in mind that a free tour is a philosophy don’t translate it literally. If you take a free walking tour with other comapanies in Cusco their decent tip is 50 soles which is ok, that is their policy.

Don't turn on this face, when the tour guide ask for tips, cause no free walking tour in the world is free.

There is no need to think that we are setting a price here since all free walks across the globe are this way, apart from this, tour guides are family men, they also eat, think about this please.