TIPS IN FRANCE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I
do a good deal of travelling in France. For the poor traveller it is indeed one of the best of countries. At hotels tipping has now been entirely abolished by an addition to the bill of ten per cent. for service. Why then does the writer of " Where Shall We Ga ? " in last week's Spectator say that this custom is effective only in Switzerland ? After staying at innmerable French hotels during the last three or four years, I cannot recall a single case of " irritating disbursements on the eve of departure " being expected. Certainly I have never Raid them. It would be a pity if intending travellers, 3vho are readers of the Spectator, should be led to think that tipping is still customary and so be encouraged to revive that objectionable practice: My experience is the same in Paris (I stay at the Hotel du Conseil d'Etat, Rue de Life) as in the provinces, though doubtless at the big , cosmopolitan hotels tipping must still be done. They are not typical of France and with
such places the pool- traveller has nothing to am, Sir, &c., Lancing College. W. H. A. Winzworizn.
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