Butler Service at Sandals and Beaches Resorts - Is it really worth upgrading to Butler Service? Umm.. YES! You'll be absolutely spoiled with Butler Service at the Sandals Resorts. Butler service will make you feel like a celebrity. They go above and beyond to make sure everything is perfect for you. Booking with us we help with your butler preference form. An example of the butler preference form is in our show notes. The preference form for butlers helps the butlers learn more about you- food allergies, favorite foods, alcohol preferences, special requests, and whether you're celebrating something special like a birthday, honeymoon, or anniversary. Now you can’t make dinner reservations before arriving to Sandals or Beaches Resorts, but let your butler know where you want to eat, and they can help you schedule that reservation. The butler can even arrange a more special table for you at one of the restaurants. Sandals Resorts started Butler Service in 1995. All the butlers for Sandals and Beaches are required to complete training with the Guild of Professional English Butlers, a prestigious organization to deliver the best hospitality. Arriving at the hotel you are provided with lemongrass-scented hand towels, welcome cocktails, and culinary delights perfect after a long trip. Now checking into the hotel with butler service you are treated like VIP. No waiting in line for checking in at the front desk your butler will greet you upon arrival and escort you to your suite. Check-in is at 3pm so for any reason you arrive earlier and your room isn’t ready your butler will escort you to a place to grab something to eat while you wait for your room. Butlers will handle your luggage to the room and even unpack your suitcase – if you prefer to unpack your own suitcase let the butlers know but they are really great at unpacking everything perfectly, even ironing your clothes that may have gotten wrinkled during travel. With the Butler service, you are given a cell phone during your stay. Just be careful not to jump into the pool with it in your pocket! The cell phone is perfect for calling and texting any requests. If you're at the beach and you get hungry for pizza, just ask! So how many butlers do you have during your stay? You have a morning and an evening butler. During your stay, you will have two butlers if you are staying a week, typically one of the butlers will get a day off so they will have 3rd butler step in for their day off. They alternate shifts so one day you will have the same butler for the morning and then another day you have that butler for the evening. What do you ask your butler to do? Save a spot at the beach or the pool. Now I will say the ONLY resort where butlers don’t save a spot is Sandals Ochi and that is because Ochi has the largest team of butlers so if they saved seats there wouldn’t be any chairs for anyone else. Have your butler bring you a cooler with your favorite drinks. Have them bring you lunch by the pool or the beach. Have a tub ready in the room before dinner and/or have another bath ready after dinner with champagne and chocolate strawberries. Surprise your partner with a decorated room while eating dinner. Breakfast in bed or sleep in and have lunch in bed. Dinner reservations- see if they can set up a more private or special table for the two of you. If you decide to have dinner in the room ask your butler to set up something more special. Possibilities are endless with butler service within reason. How much should you tip your butler? Sandals Resorts does have a no-tipping policy, however, butlers and spa team members are allowed to accept tips during your stay. It's the butlers lfull-time job to take care of you during your vacation. The average tip for a butler is $20 a day, but don’t forget you have a morning butler and an evening butler so $40 a day is an average tip for butler service. If you wish to tip more or less- this is totally up to you. If you feel like your butler went above and beyond for the two of you then tip them more. You can pay the tip in US dollars or at check out you can charge tip to your room. We always take cash with us for tipping. Like us, if they get paid in cash, they don’t have to pay taxes but don’t tell anyone I said this. Butler Service is the best! They will even help pack your bags for departure and help you check out. Like checking in they will help handle everything for departure as well. If you have any questions about butler’s service please reach out to us on Instagram @2travelanywhere by sending me a DM or email me info@2travelanywhere.com I will put my information in the show notes.
