🇩🇪 American Couple Reacts '13 Things You NEED TO KNOW Before Going to Germany!'

🇩🇪 American Couple Reacts "13 Things You NEED TO KNOW Before Going to Germany!" | The Demouchets REACT GERMANY
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[michaausleipzig]

Tipping is always optional.
If a payment is mandatory, it's a fee, not tipping. 🤷‍♂️
As for customer service, especially in restaurants, I heard from friends who visited the US how annoying it was when the waitress came around every 5 minutes, flashing a huge and obviousely fake smile asking if they wanted anything. After a few times they were like "okay, listen. We know you think you have to do that to get a good tip in the end. But, please don't. We just want to have a good time here. We will tip you in the end." Apparently she was very relieved and left them to themselves afterwards. 😅
So ... we prefer the german service style... 😅

[teotik]

Tipping is optional and 10% is just a number to have an imagination what is really enough. You can round up your bill, e.g. 19€ to 20€ and that is your tip.
Your credit card needs to have a pin because most of the times a signature is not enough or not excepted.
Depending on the fees at the ATM and where you travel (city or rural area), 50€ should be enough
for small shops you might want to buy something.

[totilucke]

tipping culture in Europe is way different, you tip if you want - wages for servers are different too, minimum wage for Germany (no matter which job) is over 12€/h

[Lolerqui]

In germany we have people that dub specific actors. Means they give their voice to the actor in every movie he makes. Thats why many voices are well known and the dubbing is a lot of times so good that you can think its really in german from the mouth movement.

[xxJOKeRxx]

Dubbed versions are done by german actors doing it like the original, similar to animation. The stars will usually have a specific german actor that does all their films and even grow old with the original actors. It's pretty good most of the time but some things just get lost in translation.

[liosscip]

Installing a kitchen isn't that complicated, i think the most "complicated" thing is wiring the oven, but aside that, its more of just putting stuff in and stick a few screws here and there. Most of my friends, when moving to their first apartment, build their kitchen themselfes with used, cheap items

[pyrointeam]

Tips are optional yet good behavior if you are working class, 10% is not a rule but an orientation. Considering paying 20 to 50€, 2-5€ are a good tip, if you have money. Everything above is up to you. Paying an 10€ at a meal of 100€ where i invited someone, is a bit much for me, so i do 5€. It's totally fine and never ever has a waiter looked critically at me. Also they don't rely on tips they get a good wage. Tips are always on top, not like in the U.S. where in some states it is legal to not pay your service staff an make them rely on tips, which gives customers so much power over them, a system like that rips away all human dignity.

[nelerhabarber]

We want to have our own furnishings. Normally we live many years or sometimes the whole live in the same apartement/house, so we buy what is OUR taste! As a student I changed my apartement 3 times and took the bed, couch, wardrobe from one to the others. As a student you have always friends who help you and in the apartements, which are "special" for students there IS a kitchen, toilet, bathroom!

[leDespicable]

Regarding the cash budget for walking around: When I'm out and about I usually carry around 50€ with me at all times, plus a few Euros in coins. You never know when a ticket machine might be broken and not accept cards and bank notes. On days where I plan on going shopping I carry more, of course, in case the card machine isn't working at any of the places I plan to shop at.
Just the other day me and a friend met up and decided to go eat at a shushi restaurant in downtown Munich. Their card machine was broken, so we had to pay in cash. It's instances like these that will make you always carry cash in Germany.

Tipping is never required in Germany. It is something you do when you're satisfied with the service. Often people even tip when the waiter wasn't particularily friendly, though, because many Germans just accept that waiters are allowed to have bad days as well, and give them a little tip anyway...unless they were being super rude of course.

[HuberHans]

One thing, in case you want to "push" it on the Autobahn 😉 be aware that in Europe the cars are about 90% manuals (stick). Exceptions are e-cars and the seldom found full automatic...

[damianboy]

When it comes to cash: it depends on how long you plan on staying, best way to know is to sit down and think of all the things you would need to pay: Hotel, Food (restaurants), Souvenirs, Clothing, Parking (if you get a hired car), train ticket, hire car, visiting a museum or other tourist atractions, petrol, ... and so on... so I would say you would, at least, need 5.000 euros in cash, if not even more... But, you also could ask your bank if your card would work in germany, or maybe there is a possibility that you could open a temporary cashcard that would work with a foreign currency... I hope that helps :)

[billbrill-lbxz]

Hi! Funfact about the dubbing people in germany....they do a really good job and usually its actually actors, who give one person in the movie their voice, so every actor in the original movie has their own voice. The guys who dubbed italian "bud spencer" movies were really creative with their dubbing and even "spiced up" the dialoges so good that the movies were more successful in germany than in any other country. even italy....i think that speaks for itself.... Greetings from Germany.

[hellpleasure]

Sorry I could never stand the fake smile waiters, I also disliked the endearments while living in NC - like hun, dear, sweety - I always was quick to tell anyone that used them on me - that it is rude for them to use them - endearments for Europeans are only used on family, friends, and spouse, etc...

[HenryAusLuebeck]

Nur Bares ist Wahres und elektronisches Bezahlen ist Kontrollverlust. Gruß aus Schleswig-Holstein.

[skylinwinter]

German dubbing is pretty good. Sometimes you don’t even see that it’s not their real voice

[lorenzsabbaer]

so i have like 50-100 euros on me, all the time (im german). then you will normaly always be safe. tipping is not required, no one will be mad at you if you dont tip.

[melchiorvonsternberg]

There is an easy trick, to avoid costs for peein'. In regular, if you in a town, you can use the toilet on the cemetary. It's mostly pretty clean and heated in the winter. Sounds strange, but it's a proper way. If you on the road, you had to face the costs...

[maxxie]

Tipping culture is very different from country to country, but NO country has mandatory tipping, you can always only pay the price and that's it, maybe in eastern Europe it's a bit more common. But usually the only people I know from 5 different countries that would tip anyone 10% or higher are only americans ahah, in France, we don't tip at all, or maybe 1 or 2 euros max, even if the bill was 200€, but we would usually just round up (from 34.75€ to 35€)

[maxxie]

Hi, so this is only for Germany for the cash thing, they're so annoying with that. I heard it's getting better since covid, but I still needed a lot of cash when I went there. I did party a lot, but typically 20/30€ for a meal at the restaurant for 1, and 5 to 10€ for a drink at a bar (maybe 20€ to get into a nightclub, so i'd say for one person, 100€ for one day is well enough (60/70 would prob be enough)

[michaelgrabner]

Tipping is optional in Germany but common practice to do so, and you can give what you want to give.
Usually you round up the amount as like Feli said..mostly to the next 5er amount (to 5, to 10, to 15 an so on) in order to avoid getting coins back but just bank notes instead and usually that is then somewhat between 2-3 Euros + some cents tip in avarage ....but there are also stingy ones who round up just to the next Euro giving just cents as tip, and strangely enough those are then the ones thinking they were exorbitant generous..