Best of USA TODAY's travel blogs

Each week, USA TODAY highlights a posting from one of its five travel blogs. This week's posting comes from Kitty Bean Yancey's Hotel Hotsheet at blogs.usatoday.com/hotelhotsheet.

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Blog entry: A survey of 1,500 European hotel managers recently conducted for Expedia.com says Americans are the best tippers, by far.

Also good at spreading around the pounds and euros -- Russians and Japanese. Least-generous tippers: Germans, French, Israelis.

Americans also are seen as the third most polite hotel guests, behind Japanese and Brits. Least ...