Guides and Staff Tipping

Tipping in Tanzania is not mandatory but expected as a custom. On your Tanzania Safari and Tour, tipping your guide, hotel staff, cook, or anyone who serves you during your stay is expected. Our detailed Tanzania Travel Tipping Guidelines will help you understand, when to tip, how much to tip, and whom to tip in Tanzania.

Tanzania Tipping Etiquette

Our Tanzania Tipping Guide suggests that tipping is firmly entrenched in the tourism industry in Tanzania and travelers shouldn’t feel awkward about it at all. Although Tipping in Tanzania Travel is supporting the Travel crew members financially but you should never feel obliged to leave a tip in case you don’t feel the service you received was immoral or insufficient.

Tipping On Tanzania Travel Considerations:

Guide to Tipping at safari lodges

Numerous people are striving hard behind the scenes to make your safari experience an unforgettable one. You can ask most lodges for their tipping advice and guidelines so that you can tip their staff accordingly without any hesitation. There is often a communal tip ‘jar’ placed in lodges and a reasonable rate for Tipping in Tanzania Travel is USD10 to 20 per person per day.

Tipping Travel Guides

Tipping Travel Guides In Tanzania is very essential as they are your go-to persons while on a game drive in Tanzania. A good safari guide is essential for a successful safari in Tanzania. Travel guides keep you safe in the wild, is chock full of interesting information about the wildlife and region, and point out the often near-hidden animals that you travelled all this way to see. For tipping your safari guide it is customary to leave a USD10 tip per person per day.

About Tipping Travel Trackers

Travel trackers are the people who accompany rangers on game drives and are very alert helping you take the best wildlife photos on your safari. We suggest that you tip trackers USD 5 per person per day.

Tipping In Restaurants And Bars

If you are on Luxury Travel Tanzania you will receive excellent service and royal treatment at various bars and restaurants. We suggest you tip 10-15% on the bill total for the waiters. For bartenders, it is recommended to tip at least 10% of the bill for large orders and if you’re paying per drink then 1 to 2 USD should be sufficient.

Tipping Travel Drivers

In Tanzania, it is customary for Tipping Travel Drivers Tanzania to support them financially. For tipping drivers, USD7-USD8 is good to go. A small tip in local currency should be sufficient for your safari drivers.

The Tipping Jar Or Kitty While On A Group Tour

There are numerous Tipping Customs In Tanzania starting from leaving money in your room when you check out to handing cash to individuals and adding on something extra to your credit card on your final bill but the easy and less uncomfortable way to do it is adding money in a tipping jar or kitty which are either separated for guides, back of the house, and front of house or collected together and shared out at the end of the trip when everyone has departed.

About Tipping on Travel in Tanzania

Tipping in Tanzania Travel is done in both Tanzanian shillings and US dollars and we recommend tipping + 8–10 USD per guest per day for a group guide, about 5–10 USD per guest per day for a safari chef, + 2 USD per guest per day for the general staff and + 3USD per city transfer.