Cruisemeister2002 Posted October 4, 2021 #1 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Hi everyone. I should know this. But how many formal nights on a 35 Night P&O cruise. Think it's 6 or 7. But due to changes especially on Iona I wondered if all P&O ships were reducing Formal nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Anarchy Posted October 4, 2021 #2 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Most nights we've done is 24. That was 6 formals. I would have thought that 35 would be maybe 8/9, depending on how port intensive the cruise is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbtablet Posted October 4, 2021 #3 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Cunard's 28 nights Southampton to the Caribbean and back in Jan 2002 has published the formal nights data and there are only 4! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshirephil Posted October 4, 2021 #4 Share Posted October 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Cruisemeister2002 said: Hi everyone. I should know this. But how many formal nights on a 35 Night P&O cruise. Think it's 6 or 7. But due to changes especially on Iona I wondered if all P&O ships were reducing Formal nights. We have taken several 35 night cruises and formals have ranged from 7 to 9. We have had a few where the formals were swapped around due to rough seas or itinerary change. We have found that most of the formals have been on the sea days while crossing the Atlantic, which makes sense really albeit sometimes we seemed to be having a formal every other day during the crossings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billish Posted October 4, 2021 #5 Share Posted October 4, 2021 18 minutes ago, yorkshirephil said: which makes sense really albeit sometimes we seemed to be having a formal every other day during the crossings. We experienced that as well. Having them so close together means they lose the "exclusivity" factor, and in the end we only went to every other one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daiB Posted October 4, 2021 #6 Share Posted October 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Cruisemeister2002 said: Hi everyone. I should know this. But how many formal nights on a 35 Night P&O cruise. Think it's 6 or 7. But due to changes especially on Iona I wondered if all P&O ships were reducing Formal nights. No reduction I can see, we have 2, 11 night cruises on Ventura with 3 formal nights on each. So still 2 per week. Last years 35 night cruise had 9/10, so again 2 per week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruisemeister2002 Posted October 6, 2021 Author #7 Share Posted October 6, 2021 On 10/4/2021 at 3:17 PM, Cruisemeister2002 said: Hi everyone. I should know this. But how many formal nights on a 35 Night P&O cruise. Think it's 6 or 7. But due to changes especially on Iona I wondered if all P&O ships were reducing Formal nights. Thanks everyone. Still not sure as obviously the amount depends on sailing days, weather and shore days. The cruise that we are on will be 6 days sailing out, 6 days sailing back, then a further 3 days + between 1 and 2 days between some ports. A total of 20 sailing days and 15 port days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daiB Posted October 6, 2021 #8 Share Posted October 6, 2021 13 minutes ago, Cruisemeister2002 said: Thanks everyone. Still not sure as obviously the amount depends on sailing days, weather and shore days. The cruise that we are on will be 6 days sailing out, 6 days sailing back, then a further 3 days + between 1 and 2 days between some ports. A total of 20 sailing days and 15 port days. In 2020 there were 9/10 when we were on this cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted October 6, 2021 #9 Share Posted October 6, 2021 (edited) 24 minutes ago, daiB said: In 2020 there were 9/10 when we were on this cruise. But most passengers get bored with them, and tend to skip at least 30%. Curry, Asian or Thai night in the buffet, or the Glass House are good alternatives Edited October 6, 2021 by terrierjohn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowzz Posted October 6, 2021 #10 Share Posted October 6, 2021 55 minutes ago, terrierjohn said: But most passengers get bored with them, and tend to skip at least 30%. Curry, Asian or Thai night in the buffet, or the Glass House are good alternatives Definitely overkill when you get to 9 or 10, especially when they are squeezed into every other night, so as to hit the "quota". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daiB Posted October 6, 2021 #11 Share Posted October 6, 2021 2 hours ago, wowzz said: Definitely overkill when you get to 9 or 10, especially when they are squeezed into every other night, so as to hit the "quota". The cruise was 35 nights, hardly overkill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowzz Posted October 6, 2021 #12 Share Posted October 6, 2021 59 minutes ago, LynnForestgate said: Have you been on a world cruise wowzz ? No, and have no wish whatsoever to do one. My comnents were based on a 25 day Caribbean round trip, where all the formal nights were squeezed into the first and last weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted October 6, 2021 #13 Share Posted October 6, 2021 1 hour ago, daiB said: The cruise was 35 nights, hardly overkill. Our last 28 nighter tried to squeeze 7 of the 8 formal nights into the transatlantic crossings which was definitely overkill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel57 Posted October 6, 2021 #14 Share Posted October 6, 2021 2 hours ago, LynnForestgate said: Have you been on a world cruise wowzz ? I think there were 32 formal nights when I did a world cruise!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 2BACRUISER Posted October 6, 2021 #15 Share Posted October 6, 2021 When I was laid up after being in hospital I daydreamed about a world cruise and the one I looked at had 27 formal nights on a 99 night cruise so I was trying to decide if I could wear 3 long frocks 9 times or 9 frocks 3 times each, then I got better and back to work and the real world 😉😜😂😂😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowzz Posted October 6, 2021 #16 Share Posted October 6, 2021 13 minutes ago, 2BACRUISER said: When I was laid up after being in hospital I daydreamed about a world cruise and the one I looked at had 27 formal nights on a 99 night cruise so I was trying to decide if I could wear 3 long frocks 9 times or 9 frocks 3 times each, then I got better and back to work and the real world 😉😜😂😂😂 At least as a bloke, I would only need to have my dress shirt washed 9 times ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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