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[ottahand7]

One of the last dressy dinners on the Eurodam this month. 

[Iamthesea]

Sadly, just not the same, but better than not having her.  Not sure if the below video will play on here. I'll give it a try!

 

[oakridger]

@Iamthesea I'm pretty sure the last time I saw the man with the dinner chimes was on Noordam in May 2019.  I did get a kick out of it every time he passed by!

 

Thanks for the flash from the past (video)!

~Nancy

[Caribbean Chris]

Some of the HAL historic photos show a lot of young men dressed in that traditional costume, which (possibly? - just idle speculation) originated with “bellboy” garb in Asia’s luxury hotels such as the Hong Kong Peninsula in about the 1930s.

[Sir PMP]

33 minutes ago, Caribbean Chris said:

Some of the HAL historic photos show a lot of young men dressed in that traditional costume, which (possibly? - just idle speculation) originated with “bellboy” garb in Asia’s luxury hotels such as the Hong Kong Peninsula in about the 1930s.

Not sure about the Peninsula, but the tradition goes back a long way.

[3rdGenCunarder]

2 hours ago, Caribbean Chris said:

Some of the HAL historic photos show a lot of young men dressed in that traditional costume, which (possibly? - just idle speculation) originated with “bellboy” garb in Asia’s luxury hotels such as the Hong Kong Peninsula in about the 1930s.

 

I don't know about any specific hotels, but a lot of swanky hotels had uniformed "bell staff" or "bell persons," as we say now. They still do, although the uniforms vary a lot. Cunard still dresses some staff in old-fashioned bellboy livery to stand at the entrance on embarkation day. If you're in the very top suite, one of them will escort you to your suite. 

 

The term bellboy comes from the practice of the front desk ringing a bell (the kind you hit to make it chime) to summon help for a guest. According to Wikipedia, the first term was bellhop (going back to 1897) because he was supposed to hop to it when the bell rang. 

 

"Call for Phillip Morris" refers to the way guests were paged in a hotel lobby when a call came in for them. You see this as a ruse in a lot of old detective movies when the detective wants to know if his quarry is in the hotel.