Charles4515

I would not be surprised if there are no Celebrity sailings to Bermuda from Cape Liberty in 2026.

The hostess would have known if the invite was declined. Also the host would meet the invitees for cocktails before dinner.

Exact change. Or buy tokens or a transportattion pass at the visitor information center. They mean no paper bills.There is a digital fare system now for about a month but I have read it having problems.

Seriously some posters are living in the past. Our culture has changed to less formal dress and more freedom of dress. The ones claiming sophistication are actually not sophisticated. Sophisticated people adjust to changing times.

When I am driving to a restaurant I leave the hat in the car. Unbelievably though there are a lot of eateries within walking distance though and I refuse to drive anywhere that I can walk to. If it is jacket weather I have flat caps that fit in my jacket pocket. I don’t usually wear a hat indoors on a cruise but if I did it would only be at the buffet returning from port. The person on Seabourn in the dining room is probably a multi millionaire who made their wealth in tech.

It is very sunny here often not a cloud and the angle is right in my eyes so a hat is desirable. It is very bright. Also sun protection is desirable. I am not bald. I usually don’t leave home without a hat during daylight hours. I even wear a hat in the pool. I have different types from ball cap to wide brimmed. Sunset today is 8:30. This is not Canada or Vermont with a lot of cloudy overcast hours. If I go to a non casual sit down restaurant I remove my hat but it stays on at burger restaurants, sandwich shops, pizza places, fast food and BBQ joints.

Celebrity Millennium class and RCI Radiance class have many similarities. If you pay attention when onboard you can see them. I was told they use the same hull design but I don’t know if that is true. They were built in the same time period. So I think Discovery Class could use the same platform without being carbon copies.

If the class is shared with Celebrity then 90,000 could make sense.

It is NCL. They have announced mostly cruises to Bermuda in 2026 on the NCL Jewel.

Nobody wears much at the pool in North America but men don’t wear Speedos. Younger women are almost naked these days.

I am in agreement that we should not take our local standards into an international setting. When I travel I research the the countries. That goes for land travel and for ports on cruises.

Why bother the crew? They are doing what they know won’t get them in trouble. Their bosses don’t want them to confront passengers about their dress. You can write letters all you want but the real dress policy of the cruise line is hope passengers voluntarily comply with their dress requests. The majority of passengers will comply as long as the dress requests fit in with our culture. When they are no longer culturally normal like formal wear and became ignored the cruise lines adjusted because they are competing with other vacation options.

I have seen it stated no shorts at dinner on some cruise lines but I don’t think I have ever seen the word prohibited. I don’t get why some resist wearing long pants when it is suggested but that does not make them wrong. People who think different are often right.

Not surprising shorts are commonplace considering the climate in Australia. Here in Texas it is commonplace too. The climate is hot and sunny. I dress for comfort. I have no need to be sophisticated. Only wannabes dress to be sophisticated.

That is a cultural difference and tradition. That does not make Japan more sophisticated. It makes it more rigid. That used to be the norm in the US many years ago. At least in the parts I lived in. It changed sometime in the 60’s. Personally I didn’t have any shorts except for sports until about 1980. I didn’t wear shorts regularly until I retired. Glad to have become less rigid and dress for the climate.

I don’t think it is a matter of trust. Captains are not at corporate headquarters where decisions are made. When they tell you things they spin so sounds like what they think you want to hear.

Apparently you don’t read well. I posted that I think the dress requests(they are not rules) should be honored and that I do honor them. It is not my business though if other passengers decided not to honor them. It is only unfortunate for the fashion police. I don’t care what other passengers have decided to wear but if what they wear aggravates you do I guess all you can do is suffer because you have no power over what other passengers decide.

I believe that is more likely than 2027 or 2028. But maybe later as they seem quite happy about the results of building more Oasis class and Icon class mega ships. Time will tell.

While I think the dress requests should be honored and I do honor them I don’t think I should force my opinion on others. It is up to the cruise lines to decide if they want to force their guests to honor the dress requests. If we don’t like that the dress requests are not respected or not enforced we can whine it about it forever and there have been dress code threads forever but the only thing that has resulted in the last 25 years is more relaxed dress by passengers and less enforcement. I can’t do anything about either. Best to just relax and enjoy our cruises.

They have to order the materials before they build. Much will have to be fabricated. Labor has to be hired. After they build they have to do sea trials. If it is a brand new design I doubt that 2027 is feasible even if announced later this year. If they can find a way to modify Edge class or Quantum class hulls then 2027 might be feasible.

You get to decide for you and your family what is appropriate dress but you don’t get to decide for others. That is fortunate.

Besides when you are sitting at dinner no one can tell if you are wearing shorts. I usually don’t know until the end of dinner when they table mates stand up that they were wearing shorts. I don’t care. It does not bother me or ruin my experience. What ruins my experience is bad food or bad service.

It seems like you are the one with the self centered mindset. You want to force others to cater to you. I could say you should choose another vacation if you disrespect the choice others make. What should matter to you is how you dress not the choices made by others. Most cruise lines don’t care about shorts in the MDR. A few do care. Choose them for your experience.

If nothing is finalized in writing I don't see 2027 being possible. Carnival just announced a new class of ship this week the first to be deilvered in 2028. If something is finalized soon for Discovery class then 2028at the earlist is most likely not 2027.

That is a possibility.