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Here on the beaches, it replaced old tee shirts as a garment to help surfers avoid a rash on their chest and upper arms from paddling against the sticky wax on their surfboards

Typically yes. Here's your bon voyage song:

DH likes to dress up more frequently than suggested since, being retired, it's one of the few chances to wear his many sets of cufflinks. Otherwise those fabulous Redskins links--now a collector's item!--would sit silently in their box at home...

Just a note re: tipping some folks extra at the end: we were told on HAL that they don't have to pool those tips only if their name is on the envelope. Since then, we always make sure, on any cruise line, to address the envelopes by name. We can also, on Celebrity, increase gratuities to the butler and other specific people on our credit card, through a form at guest services, thereby avoiding having to carry cash. (This is not a form that removes gratuities too.) But I believe that cash tips at the bar do get pooled: I noticed that after the first day, when I tipped a bartender $5 so he'd remember I like clamato in my bloody marys, I got attentive service at all the bars. Guess word spreads.

Don't forget he can order from the "every night" standard choices of plain steak, chicken and salmon...

I guess the noise can depend too on the nearby tables. We were typically among tables for 2 near the windows, but the final nights (on Silly) were seated near several big tables of rowdy folks. The closest ones (who turned out to be from our small town--what are the odds?) had been eating at specialty restaurants until then. They finally brought the fun to Blu. Interacting with the other tables too, whee! We found ourselves eating fast and skipping dessert.

And that's basically it. Disrespectful to US, his fellow diners, not to the long-suffering staff. I wrote elsewhere about the time, on a Royal cruise, all the other men at our table for 12 were in in tuxes or dark suits. The guy at the end of the table (or head of it) waltzed in dressed in a sloppy, sleazy shiny oversized tee shirt with the front of a tux printed on it. Good one, pal--but I'd think for all the money you kept bragging about having, as a lawyer with your big fancy house, etc., you could afford to rent a monkey suit. Or just wear what you typically do in court? Meanwhile, his surgically-enhanced wife was dripping in diamonds and silk... It just felt like a big "eff you" to all of us who had taken the trouble to look nice. Super offensive. Just go to the buffet if you can't be bothered.

Thanks so much for this picture! In January I drank a bunch of this Grgrich Hills Opulence Chardonnay, but the last night, what he brought was Grgrich Hills Sauvignon Blanc... Thought I was losing my mind; he just shrugged. I guess I should've specified "Opulence."

Thanks! we leave on the 9th for this cruise. So you only had 2 forml nights after ll, not 3? Did you have a Full Moon (white nights) party? It's never been on the full moon, but they had those on our last 3 Celeb cruises...

Guessing NMTraveller was perfectly aware, lol. But in some parts of the US where polo isn't played, they are referred to as golf shirts.

Maine, yes. Spiny, no. Memba when they would bring you another tail if you asked? For FREE? On Formal night. When they also had REAL Baked Alaska...

These dress code threads are entertaining, is all. We all have war stories about our experiences, we defend our stances, and we learn some stuff from time to time. (Me: ooh, a 70s cruise??? Bring it on!! I'll know the lyrics to all the songs, lol.)

Oh, Hogwarts! Lovely campus... Student wandered past us teasingly hoping they'd be chosen for Hufflepuffs, etc.

Cummerbunds are those folded sashes at the waist of a tuxedo or dinner jacket. They replaced wearing a waistcoat under the jacket and are therefor cooler. Rather than serving as a belt (that's replaced by suspenders) it covers the hardware of the waistband, buttons, etc. They usually match the tie. Towards the end of the formal era, they were appearing in wild colors and patterns.

Yep; turned out we had even seen some bands on the same tour! I do mourn one loss re: the formal nights. Women's sparkly gowns? Okay, fine. But it was really great to see the variety of men's wear: kilts, military dress, white dinner jackets, tuxes with fun cummerbunds and ties... Once there was a couple in matching tails. Even among the very few (usually geezers) still in tuxes, there are zero cummerbunds these days.

Lol. On the Edge, luminae has several rows of banquettes: we were often seated between two other tables.This, BTW, was when they had just resumed sailing: 318 pax on the ship, but the suites were sold out. The Retreat was mobbed and dinner was wall-ro-wall. We stood in herds each night waiting for a table; so much for distancing! As I like to sit on the bench, I found myself shoulder to shoulder with a guy who wore a different old, faded rock n roll tee each night. Talking Heads! Etc. I mean bands that broke up in the 80s. Had to tell us where he'd seen each show. No one batted an eye when he'd show up in his finery.

Have seen plenty of violations in Luminae over the years too. But I also remember about 10 years ago, there was a rack of men's jackets in various sizes at the entrance to the MDR, and the maitre 'd handing them out to diners as needed...

Yeah, I'm old, lol. They wore pocket protectors & the whole shebang.

No shows on a sold-out ship: We once tried to move out of our guaranteed stateroom due to room issues such as rust and mold. They said impossible, but check with us again after sailaway. We did--and they moved us to a suite, for an extra $200! The room had a large bouquet for Mr & Mrs X (not us, lol), chocolates, wine... all for us to keep. Back in the pre-bidding days...

Good point. Dress shirts and button downs are not the same at all. A dress shirt accommodates a bow tie--or another style--but has no buttons to hold that tie down*. Button downs are for the workplace; the tie sits under the buttoned-down collar. Ties not tied in a bow on a dress shirt can be anchored with a pin, a stud, or a chain. (See King Charles) Dress shirts are always long sleeved, Button downs, not being dressy, can also be short sleeved. They also often have a chest pocket--because they are working shirts--while dress shirts do not. *BTW: what's a tie FOR, anyway??? Nuffin. It was created to fasten the collar, a separate article of clothing, to the shirt! Then after collars began to be sewn to shirts 100 years ago, the ties, which should have become discarded as superfluous, simply became decoration.

Those are the cargo shorts that his below the knee, which make all men look like Oompaloompas.

The suggestion of a bid from Celebrity is based on what they want you to pay, lol. BTW: today--only 14 days ahead of our cruise--I got a Move Up offer, They were taking bids in every category of suite. I called me TA, who told me the entire ship is completely sold out!!

Just got a new Move Up offer for our Connie cruise that leaves on March 11. They allowed bids in every category of suite, starting at $1,100 pp for Sky Suites. Called my TA, who informed me the ship is completely SOLD OUT.

Great to hear! We ate *everywhere* except the MDR on the Silly in January (in Aqua, so Blu plus buffet, etc, & specialty) and couldn't say. On the Connie in a couple of weeks and it will be all MDR, all the way, due to our travel companions preferences.

Lol, came here to say this