In "My Time Dining", Do We Need To Dress Up On Formal Nights?

[insulationbabe]

After sixteen cruises - being nicely dressed is all that matters - a nice sports shirt and slacks for the guys and nice slack and top for the ladies is perfectly okay - My hubby may take a sports jacket and maybe a tie but its not necessary - the waiter is fine with what he said about not getting dressed up in formal attire - fewer and fewer are doing so - I prefer to wear and summery short dress especially if its really hot with sandles and its perfectly fine

It's your vacation enjoy yourself - wear what you like:)

[ryano]

We were on the Monarch 4 night cruise with our 2 grandsons over Memorial Day. The night before formal night we told our waiter we would not be there the next night because we had not brought formal clothes. He told us we were welcome to come without formal clothes and urged us to come anyway. We ate in the Windjammer on formal night, but thought it was interesting that he said it didn't matter that we didn't have formal clothes.

 

That was exactly what our waiter told us on Monarch a couple weeks before you.......Of course, the dress code was "smart casual" any way. I do not know about the 4 nighter but they have gotten rid of "formal night" on the 3 night cruises. Its smart casual now.

 

That said, there were a lot of suits and even quiet a few tuxes........a lot of women in very elegant looking dresses too.

[Montanabound]

Nusail beat me to it. I was giggling over the mental picture of guys wearing green collard shirts.

[AFS1970]

If a no-collared gentleman in dockers traveling aft full stride carrying a lead pipe passes a tuxedo-ed man with a candlestick strolling forward toward the library AND an evening gowned elderly lady port-side holding a rope looks across and sees the the starboard young blond in the sparkly top and black pants with a wrench in hand...Is the cruise over? Does anyone have a CLUE?

I am surprised that I am the first one to get this clue: It was Colonel Mustard.........at the mandatory drill!