MotownVoice

There is nothing formally mentioned in any of the NCL literature, or even by googling until cows begin coming home that mentions "Dress Up or Not." The Sample Cruise Calendar refers to a "Dress Up and Step Out" night to dine with the captain. That's as close as you're going to come. I think it's just Cruise Critic people developing their own culture around the days the photographers are out working. The very name "Dress Up or Not", by its very nature literally means "There Is No Dress Code. Wear Whatever You Want." There will be no organized party, or special streamers over the dining tables on any such night. It's imaginary.

How have I not answered your question? Is there a night to dress formally? No. Can you dress formally whenever you wish? Yes.

I can guarantee you that if you showed up for dinner in an elegant gown and jewels on any given, unannounced night not a single person is going to tell you to go back to your stateroom and take that stuff off. NCL is "do what you want as relates to dinner dress. be happy. you're on vacation. we're not here to make you do anything except ask you not to show up half naked." I mean that literally is their official policy.

"Dress Up or Not" doesn't sound anything like a "Formal Night." It sounds like every single other night on the cruise. You wanna dress up? You go. The closest thing to a dress code as relates to formality is that Business Casual is the minimum for dinner attendance in the two formal dining rooms.

There are no formal nights on any ship in the NCL fleet.

This will happen when there are so few smokers of tobacco that it will make sense to the company. By the time cruise lines ban it, it will have been years since you smelled it. So put the rakes and torches away. You’re not going to have your Village Monster Captured moment.

If you’re departing from the US it’s tough to find a non stop. We did the British Isles in 2018 on Royal Princess. I scoured for an affordable non stop and the best I found was 1 layover in Jersey. Which was fine, except the return flight was overnight in Jersey. Torture, traveling all that way home then having to spend the night 2 hours away.

Had to be an American. We embarrass ourselves constantly with our misguided sense of entitlement and the specter that follows us everywhere that “because we pay taxes and work we should have the right to everything we desire.” It’s especially caustic when we do it while abroad. Two US males with one or two cocktails starting a fight over the lounger that his wife was sitting in makes perfect sense.

There is no smoking in any (hallway) passageway on any ship in any fleet as far as I know.

Same attitude here, although I wish I didn’t have to wait until 30 days out to get my itinerary. My inner micro- manager is having a panic attack.

Actually wrong. One person suggested just giving the child some Benadryl and everything would be just fine. Although, it required that person to downgrade the diagnosis from chicken pox to an ordinary allergy rash. So that was nice of them.

https://www.ncl.com/ca/en/cruise-faq/smoking#!#:~:text=On Norwegian Escape, cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipe,area) and Spice H 2 O, starboard side.

There was absolutely no danger of you trying to use booze to steam clean a suit I think.

This is true, and it baffles me. Guests are prohibited from bringing and using their own irons and steamers because they can be a dangerous fire hazard. “But here,” they say, “use ours!”

Are we talking about a gasoline powered steamer, oooorrrrrrrr….? 🤷‍♂️

If you can’t bring one, what is the point of assessing its usefulness? Your steward can see that your gown or silk shirt can get steamed.

If you lose your glasses, and you need them to see clearly, you aren’t going to want to go a single full day without replacing them, even if it means buying a pair of drug store reading glasses that you can make work until the cruise is over. So that explanation doesn’t work. at. all.

I could see this going sideways for the cruise line. Imagine that there are so many violators, instead of just handing out towels they now need the staff to operate what is effectively a coat check room. They’d have to collect, wrap, catalogue and store the belongings of dozens of people an hour, then prove ownership of all the items when people cone to claim them.

A) The cruise line can change their itinerary for any reason. B) You had insurance. It worked the way it was supposed to. C) This reads like someone in the throws of an outrage. It wanders and makes senseless claims. My advice is to give yourself time to cool off and go at it again. But stick to complaints that are actual customer mistreatments. This treatice doesn’t have that quality.

Yep I wear these. I could be standing in line in the sun for 5 or 10 minutes and not even realize my lenses have become dark, opaque sunglasses to someone looking at me.

Yeah, while the people in the havens are still waiting for a concierge during a disembarkation crush.

There’s a reason cruise lines want to know your full travel itinerary if they didn’t book it for you. I’ve never gotten off a plane and gone to baggage claim without a cruise shuttle person coming and looking for me. They know your flight number. They don’t want you on board any later than you do. And there are shuttles making the rounds at the hotels as well.

That exact thing happened to us on Princess out of Civitavecchia. When we finally got the rest of our luggage all of our electronics were gone. I don’t believe it was Princess, I think it was the sticky fingered goons working luggage in the back rooms of the airline.