Predict Formal Night?

[eyelash]

Any way to predict which night of an 8 day cruise will be formal night? 

(It's an 8-day southbound Voyage of the Glaciers from Whittier, AK to Vancouver BC on the Majestic Princess if that matters).

[cr8tiv1]

This should narrow your days down. Formal nights are usually on sea days and never consecutive.  

[skynight]

7 nights. Will not be the 1st night nor the last evening, a only sea day. It's a tough call. Could be Glacier Bay day where you are there from 9:15am until 7:30pm, the 2nd could be Juneau or Ketchikan. 

[Ombud]

My guess:

Anchorage -> not on embarkation day

Hubbard Glacier until 8pm -> no

Glacier Bay National Park until 7pm -> probably 

Skagway until 8:30 -> no

Juneau until 4pm -> yes

Ketchikan until 6pm -> no

Sea Day -> no bc next day you disembark

Vancouver -> bye bye

[travelbuds]

On a past Island Princess SB cruise, our formal nights were Hubbard Glacier and Juneau.

[paul929207]

check the Patter for the first day

[RRFan]

It's usually the first sea day and the other one depends upon the times in port.  It is NOT always a sea day.  On AK cruises, the day before you disembark is a sea day and it is never that day.  We always joked that was because that didn't give people enough time to buy those last formal portraits.  If the last port day sail away time is 5 or earlier, it'll be that day.  If not, it'll probably be a "scenic cruising" day.

[EDVM96]

The  Voyage of the Glaciers Southbound formal nights are normally:

1. Yakutat Bay (Hubbard Glacier)

2. Juneau

 

Edited July 24, 2021 by EDVM96

[Piperpals]

Usually the second night which is a sea day and will be the captains welcome event. The second one may depend on the itinerary but most likely second last night.