Hi all, first time cruiser after advice please! By what time should we be dressed up on formal night?
We're on our first cruise (hi!). It's day 2, first formal night, and we decided to go for a walk around the promenade - still in tshirt/shorts - before we changed for dinner. It was 5.30/5.45 which feels too early to change, but we got a very dirty look up and down (3 or 4 times!) from a man already dressed to the nines.
I fully understand people enjoy when others make a bit of effort and we've purchased tuxes for that purpose, but we thought this was a restaurant only thing?
Have we committed that much of a faux pas timewise or was this person just that much up himself? Not going to let it ruin our cruise, but I'd rather avoid another occurence if there's some unwritten rule that you should be dressed up by 3? or 5?
