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King Baboon, Good to see you again, and hope your hunt is great. Tipping in bars and restaurants? Not required at all. Aussie workers are paid a fair wage. As I am in the wine industry I sometimes in the past have rounded up the bill to the next $5 or $10. ie these businesses can be customers. Definitely no 10% at all required. As a tourist I wouldn't tip at all. Tipping the trackers? Tipping the Guide? Do what you feel is right and appropriate if they work hard and do a good job. Compared to Africa, where a camp might have from 10 to even 30 people doing all the work from skinning, caring for trophies, cooking, cleaning, driving, bar tending, milking cows, gardening, tracking, guiding, and everything else, in Aussie it often is ONE GUIDE, ONE CAMP worker/cook and possibly the occasional casual tracker when they feel like working (if in Aboriginal lands). One outfitter I used had an agreement to hire a tracker per hunt, but if the locals did not feel like it, or had ceremonies at the time, they didn't bother. So the two or three staff do a lot of hard work. I'll leave it to other Aussies and perhaps other foreign visiting clients to comment on what they did. Myself I like to give a gift if I can. |