Lady Vix

Dont worry about the things you see on these boards, have a look at the location of most of the posters. Sailing out of Southampton you will find lots of people dressed for formal nights. Seeing people in shorts will be a rarity. Enjoy the cruise, the staff make an effort to ensure you have a good time.

Thank you so much for your lovely reply. I am so looking forward to July, more so now.

We have our first week long cruise booked from Southanpton in July. I've been looking forward to this trip with my Aunt and Uncle and my husband for several months now.

I joined this forum for help and advice and this evening looked at the thread about suggested attire for dining in what I've learnt is called the 'MDR'. I wish I hadn't. Now, I feel we will be judged on what we wear, people will be commenting about our appearance and how much we spend on luggage allowance, and people will be wondering whether or not we eat at McDonalds.

I thought we'd wear 'smart casual' for dinner most nights, and for the formal nights, the men would wear dinner suits and myself and my aunt would wear cocktail type dresses.

Now I find there are people turning their noses up at the food in the 'MDR' and preferring to eat at McDonalds, people saying that you should dress up, people saying you should wear shorts; I am more confused than I was when I started to look!!

I hope that on our cruise, people are tolerant of other people, I would like to think people make a bit of an effort for dinner (not judging anyone) in the 'MDR' and that people are not judging our party.

Is it just me who finds this thread a bit judgemental? Sorry to sound so controversial on my first post...