Good news for folks who do Coyle's valet parking shops: For the client with many locations the tip reimbursement has been increased to $5. I sure hated tipping $2 "while visiting a guest" at a $600/night hotel. (I'm not sure about some of the smaller valet services that also use Coyle.)

Also, although this was instituted last month and is clearly spelled out in the guidelines, I had one editor who was unaware of it and tried to lower my reimbursement to $2. I e-mailed support and they took care of it right away. All of the other editors have approved the correct reimbursement.

Since we're not mentioning clients I think we can say those are Servimer shops. Even though they never pay as much as I can get the Coyle shops for, I also like the F/B allowance. One of their hotel clients near me has a really great but expensive sandwich/coffee shop that I would never otherwise patronize.

Since my better half can't pack light and then goes shopping while I'm writing reports we always have so much luggage that the bellman gets the maximum tip. Although it's still lower than the valet tip, I also often take the car in and out a few times during the shop, so the $10 valet in and $10 valet out tips are covering those as well.

I've never known Serimer to bonus any of the shops an hour frim me but still ask me to do them for $15.

I am so glad to hear of the valet tip increase! I have done over 100 valet shops for Coyle in the last three years, and that $2 tip was so annoying at these luxury hotels. My husband even occasionally would give the valet attendant $5 if he was very good and my husband would just pay for the overage, because he thought it was so disrespectful to give a fantastic valet attendant only $2.

Also, @Okie, I have had the SAME experience where "lately, a good number of the valet shops in my area have been going off the board quickly after getting posted." Each month, my area usually has 20-30 valet shops, and since 2021, they have always been on the board throughout the month, slowly getting taken. I could almost always still find some available by mid-month. But for the last three months or so, the valet shops are all gone by the beginning of that month. At first, I thought that maybe they lost the client. But then I saw them show up again but only briefly on the board. I wonder if maybe Coyle got some new shoppers in my area that like doing valet shops or something. Even though they post for only $20, I have always been able to bid $30-35 and get them assigned, and it can be a pretty awesome deal if I need parking in the downtown area anyway (I often combine them with a restaurant shop for another company). So now I have to be sure to plan more in advance if I want them. Last night, I went downtown for dinner and a show and I had forgotten to get the valet parking at the beginning of the month, so we had to pay for a parking garage for the first time in years.

Okie, I don't have Coyle valet shops near me.

I do have servimer valet shops near me. They refused to bonus three shops 60 miles from me to make it worth the drive. "We never offer bonuses" was what I was told when i asked for an additional $5 per shop.

Hi wrosie! Thanks for taking a look at Servimer's shops. We've raised our rates several times over the past few years, and our base pay across the US and Canada now ranges from $21 to $31 (we tie our base pay proportionately to military sevicemembers' housing and subsistence allowances prescribed for the local area). If you see anything posted for less than $21, could you please let me know so that we can fix it?
It's true that we almost never bonus. We'd rather not lowball early-on in the month, and instead we try to pay the most that we can from the start of the month through the end.
However, end-of-month flakes still happen, so every now and then we'll provide some financial expressions of appreciation for help in getting those surprise crises completed. Feel free to keep asking, and please keep us in mind when you're already planning to be where our shops are. Hope to work with you soon!