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Boytjie I didn't mean to refer to people dressed to code as being in "monkey suits". I was referring to us. Here in our section of the world that is what a lot of the guys call tuxes or suits and ties. I can't tell you the times I have heard I want to get home and get out of this "monkey suit" when leaving church, wedding or funeral. Some people just hate to dress up and want to be causal and I just think it's awful that they are looked down on when they are encountered, when like I said we try our best to stay away from the formal happenings but I don't want to stay in my room and don't think I should have to. That's all I am saying and it is hurtful when someone talks down to you when you are just as good as they are. I would never intrude on a formal gathering not properly dressed and I think I made that clear in first post if not, sorry. I just want to do the Alaska cruise HAL offers and don't want to dress formal or be treated like a second class citizen.

Mary Ellen thanks for the info. I guess I was really exaggerating a little on the "slugging", but the woman was about to hear a few choice words. Instead he didn't stoop to her level. You must be one of the snobbish ones, you are trying to banish us to our cabin to eat. If I am welcome to eat on the Lido deck any night how the heck do you expect me to get there? Have you people never been on a cruise where people wanted to get out of those "monkey suits" after dinner. You wouldn't know whether I had been dressed up for an earlier dinner and changed or not. You all should lighten up and enjoy your cruise and stop worrying about what others might be doing. In most of the post you all just want the people not dressed in formal attire to stay out of your dining rooms on formal nights, now you want us detained in our rooms. If HA plans on taking my 5000 dollars for the cruise, I will dress as I please going to and from the Lido deck and if that ruins your cruise experience I am sorry for you. Get a life.

Thinking of taking an Alaskan cruise on HA and wondered about the "As you wish dining". We do not care for formal nights and don't care to go to the main dining rooms on any night. We have never tried to intrude on anyone's dining experience on formal nights. We enjoy the lido dining or grabbing a sandwich when we want it. We do not however want to be confined to our room to eat. We cruised with HA in '04 and was really enjoying our cruise until the first formal night. We discretely went up to the lido deck to eat and was trying to stay out of everyone's way. We decided to go down and watch a movie after eating and didn't think that would offend anyone. We were in shorts but we didn't go around where the "formal dressed" passengers were. Leaving the theater and trying to go back on deck a woman passenger was behind us and made a smart remark. She said, "do they not know what formal night means". It was all I could do to keep my husband walking and not slugging her. We have never cruised with HA since. We don't like being around snobbish people. I understand all the post about people not wanting to dress on formal nights and the correct dress but they always refer to people going to main dining rooms. Are all passengers that snobbish on HA that they won't allow us to go get a sandwich on formal nights if we aren't decked out in formal wear? Question is, can we go to Alaska on HA and plan to not dress up on formal nights or attend the main dining rooms?