formal nights on 10 day hal...

[hess2201]

we are looking at the Noordam 10 night, and we are wondering if there are two or three formal nights. thanks

[Krazy Kruizers]

We have done quite a few 10 day cruises on various ships (not yet on the Noordam), and have always had 3 formal nights.

[Randyk47]

Our Volendem 10-day this year we had 3 formal nights. There was some confusion and apparently some folks documents said 2 formal nights and had an informal night in place of the third formal night so the daily paper announced it as formal/informal as some weren't prepared. Still worked out and since formal dress isn't exactly what it used to be you really didn't notice the difference.

[RuthC]

There were three formal nights when I did the Noordam 10-day cruise last March.

 

We sailed on Wednesday and the formal nights were Thursday, Monday, and Thursday. This question came up recently and a poster from a more recent Noordam 10-day cruise had the first formal night as the first Friday.

[airlink diva]

There were three formal nights when I did the Noordam 10-day cruise last March.

 

We sailed on Wednesday and the formal nights were Thursday, Monday, and Thursday. This question came up recently and a poster from a more recent Noordam 10-day cruise had the first formal night as the first Friday.

I wonder if it's the same nights on the Maasdam? I'm sailing on an upcoming 10 day trip and I'm curious to know.

[scopewest]

I'm reading my 11/15 Noordam Daily Program right now and it says under the heading "Itinerary At A Glance":

Day 1: (Embarkation) Casual

Day 2: Informal

Day 3: Formal

Day 4: Casual

Day 5: Casual

Day 6: Informal - FORMAL OPTIONAL

Day 7: Casual

Day 8: Informal

Day 9: Formal

Day 10: Casual

[LAFFNVEGAS]

I do not have a whole lot of experience on 10 days but.....we just got off the Zaandam over a week ago and we had just 2 Formal nights but had 3 Informal nights. DH and I had packed for 3 Formal and 2 Informal, even though our Docs stated 2 Formal and 2 Informal the rest casual. But prior cruises doing this itinerary had the 3 Formal and 2 Informal. The daily program the first day stateing what the week will be was also different from what it ended up being. I guess what I am saying is there is nothing set in stone stating what it will be and it can change even during the week. I would plan for 3 but make sure that you could switch easily to 2 Formal 3 Informal. I made the big mistake of wearing a dress the first formal night that could go either Formal with the right jewelry or Informal. Which left me with two very fancy Formal dresses. Unfortunately we ended up with 3 Informal and I only had 2 Informal dresses:o When not sure just pack it all:D

Out of 4 cruises this year 3 of my Documents were wrong as to how many Formal, Informal and Casual nights:confused:

[scopewest]

Our Noordam daily program on day 6 did state Informal: Formal Optional on that particular day so they kept to the original schedule they gave us on embarkation day. I guess we were lucky in that respect.

[hess2201]

Thanks for the replies,

 

i am waiting to hear from recent noordam cruises to see if it gets warm by day three!!!!

[doone]

On all my 10-day cruises, we have always had 3 formal evenings. My most recent 10-dayer was last February and there were 3 formals.

[Roz]

On my Nov. 13 Volendam cruise, we had 3 formals, and were supposed to have 2 informals. Turns out we only had 1 informal, and an extra casual.

 

I did not see any outright violations of the dress code, but did see a wide variety of interpretations. ;) There was a male crossdresser at the table behind us.

 

Roz