Which Cruise Lines Still Do Formal Nights?

[Creepella]

Love formal nights, wanting to try some new lines. I know RCCL does.

[Kamloops50]

Holland America , Princess , Celebrity , Regent Seven Seas and Oceania.

There also might a few others as well.

[caribsun]

Cunard.:)

[alidor]

Oceania and Regent definitely do NOT do formal nights

[Scrapnana]

I'm not sure any cruise line has more formal nights than Cunard. We had an average of two a week on the World Voyage. The TA crossings usually have three.

[Kamloops50]

Question is which cruise lines do formal nights.

Cunard,Princess,Holland America ,Celebrity and maybe Royal Caribbean.

 

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[carol louise]

Carnival still has what they now call "elegant night" (two nights on a 7-night cruise). Not technically "formal" but some do dress formally, and most everyone dresses up.

[Scrapnana]

Disney has a formal and a semiformal night on 7 night cruises.

[jerrymanos]

I guess I'm just an old fuddy-duddy. I don't think that any cruiseline has "Formal" nights. Some may call it that, but as long as they accept a suit or a sport coat as acceptable gentleman's wear, it's not formal.

Formal wear for men means a tuxedo to me. A suit is at best semi-formal. Maybe I should restate that and say, "A suit used to mean at best semi-formal."

 

When I was educated about formal wear, gentlemen's options were black-tie or white-tie tuxedos. (or at least an off-white dinner jacket with tuxedo pants) I really miss those days, but certainly fashions have changed. If definitions keep going this way, and "formal" means the classiest way that people dress, formal will become khakis and a polo shirt. Casual wear will then devolve to pajama bottoms and T-shirts.

 

Sorry for the whining, but I just miss the elegance of the "good ol' days". Jerry of Jerry and Lady Kathryn

[Keith1010]

Cunard, Crystal (Black Tie Optional), Silversea.

 

Keith

[jewels07]

P&O also do 2 formal nights on a 7 night cruise.

[awhfy]

We were just on Royal's Navigator. I was surprised at how many tuxedos there were. At least 75%

 

 

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[KKB]

Princess

RCL

DIsney

Celebrity

 

Clothing choices vary widely--not particularly by line, but by individual.

 

DH gave up a jacket some time ago (always dress shirt & tie) but it looks like Celebrity might require it. Darn--only 1 night on our cruise.

 

Isn't NCL the only one that officially doesn't have formal night?