Formal Nights on Royal Princess: Southampton to Southampton, 2018

[Mr Astro]

Hello all:

 

DW and I are in the final stages of preparations for our upcoming Royal Princess cruise around the UK (August 5 - 17) and we'd like to ask a question of anyone out there that has recently done the same cruise about when the formal nights were.

 

We've cruised a lot but most of them had lots of at sea days so one could pretty accurately guess when the formals would be (the night before disembarkation is never a formal night). This cruise has only two at sea days separated by only two days. All the rest of the days are port days.

 

So, the question is (to those who have taken this cruise)... were the formal nights on the 'at sea days' or were they on evenings of port days?

 

Cruisers who have done the Caribbean might have some comments to make in this regard since those cruises are rather port heavy (but shorter).

 

Your comments are welcome.

 

Mr. A.

Edited July 24, 2018 by Mr Astro
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[Mr Astro]

Hello all:

 

DW and I are in the final stages of preparations for our upcoming Royal Princess cruise around the UK (August 5 - 17) and we'd like to ask a question of anyone out there that has recently done the same cruise about when the formal nights were.

 

We've cruised a lot but most of them had lots of at sea days so one could pretty accurately guess when the formals would be (the night before disembarkation is never a formal night). This cruise has only two at sea days separated by only two days. All the rest of the days are port days.

 

So, the question is (to those who have taken this cruise)... were the formal nights on the 'at sea days' or were they on evenings of port days?

 

Cruisers who have done the Caribbean might have some comments to make in this regard since those cruises are rather port heavy (but shorter).

 

Your comments are welcome.

 

Mr. A.

 

Thanks to all who took the time to read this post but "MrsEmmaPeel's" posting on her experiences has answered my question (and more).

No need to post a reply. Thank you.....

[Micahs Grandad]

Thanks to all who took the time to read this post but "MrsEmmaPeel's" posting on her experiences has answered my question (and more).

No need to post a reply. Thank you.....

 

We are on the same cruise so guess will look her up and see if she and her husband ever got together:)

[geoherb]

Last year, we had formal nights the night we had been in Guernsey and the night after leaving Greenock. But our time in Guernsey was shorter than it's schedule for this year.

[sandyoftheseas]

We were on the British Isles cruise with the overnight in Dublin May13-25 2018. The formal nights were May 14th Guernsey and May 20th the first at sea day.